Abstract
The first purpose of this research work was to develop a scale about sophistication of value that seems to provide two aspects of sophistication. The sophistication of value was defined as an attitude toward a relation between “age and sophistication”. That is, by using this scale, the attitude that individuals accept a stereotype that only young females should dress up or not is measured. A questionnaire survey was conducted to 107 junior or senior college female students and their 107 mothers for collecting mother-daughter pair data. The result of the factor analysis has indicated that the scale of “sophistication of value not being obsessed with age” in common to an elder age and a younger age was constructed. The second purpose was to confirm that the sophistication orientation and the gender personalities are inherited from mothers to daughters. The result of the covariance structure analysis implied the causal association in which the androgyny, the sophistication of value not being obsessed with age, and the internal sophistication are inherited from mothers to daughters. In addition, it is suggested that particularly daughters' internal sophistication is affected by their gender personalities and mothers' ones.
