Abstract
Ego experience is defined as an incidence of asking questions about “I”, such as “Why am I the person I am?” and “Where have I come from?” In this paper, we report the research on the relationship between self-consciousness and ego experience. A questionnaire was administered to 239 junior high school and 228 college students. Results showed that 118 of the junior high school students (49.4%) reported ego experience, while 108 of undergraguates (47.4%) did the same. Public and private self-consciousness of junior high school students were not yet sufficiently differentiated. However, those who reported own ego experience had them more differentiated than those who did not, with a lower correlation between them. Also, both public and private self-consciousness related to ego experience in junior high school students. In contrast, only private self-consciousness of undergraduates related to ego experience.
