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A study on the change of function of a Senior College
A comparative study in Nishinomiya City Senior College in 10 years
2010 Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 338-347
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2010 Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 338-347
The purpose of this comparative study is to examine the function of one Senior College between 1998 and 2008 (class year).
For this purpose two questionnaire surveys with similar questions were conducted to the participants of Nishinomiya City Senior College in 1998 (N＝753) and 2008 (N＝1,247). After the comparison of the main attributes of the participants, reasons of participation and evaluation of the Senior College, the author tried to detect the most dominant axes of the participants’ attitudes towards the College in 1998 and 2008 by using Hayashi’s quantification method Ⅲ，and analyzed each component.
The results demonstrated that the main axes were “healthy life - human relations/learning”(1998) and “daily life related - human relations/social”(2008). In 1998 participants’ learning and human relations were supposed to be interwoven, whereas in 2008 learning and human relations were at a distance. This was interpreted to mean that a difference of function of the Senior College occurred between 1998 and 2008.
