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Volume 18, Issue 2
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Miho TsunedaArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 97-108
Published: August 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 27, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis longitudinal case study examined the role of a caregiver's sharing to share attention with an infant, in the development of joint attention behavior. A mother-infant pair was observed in natural settings when the baby was 2-9 months of age. Analyses focused on the relation between maternal coordination of the infant's attention, pattern of gaze, and emotional expression. Mother-infant interaction went through the following five phases: 1) showing own face to each other, 2) overall control of infant's gaze by mother, 3) emergence of joint visual attention, 4) confusion of coordinated joint engagement to objects, and 5) achievement of joint attention focusing on inner mental objects. In this process the mother's supportive behavior changed along with the infant's ability to control his own posture. This transformation of maternal behavior brought about the new interaction pattern. The results indicate that a caregiver's supportive behavior can play an important role in the development of an infant's joint attention behavior.View full abstractDownload PDF (1491K) -
Atsuko Higata, Seiichi SaitoArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 109-119
Published: August 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 27, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe time perspective of adolescents, regarding the future, involves both anxiety and hope. This study examined the relationship between time perspective and mental health, and factors that promote the reconstruction of time perspective by high school and university students. Adolescents with a positive time perspective of the past through the future were generally found to be in good mental health. However, among those with a future perspective, high school students were not in better mental health while university students were in better mental health. The results suggested that future time perspective has a different effect on mental health, depending on one's level of development. Adolescents with a positive time perspective reported a strong and well-balanced concern for life events of the past, present, and future. They were also realistic in reconstructing past life events and recognizing future events.View full abstractDownload PDF (1418K) -
Makoto ShibayamaArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 120-131
Published: August 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 27, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSA qualitative analysis concerned how dual-earner couples negotiated who took their children to and from a day nursery. Data from records and interviews conducted at a private day nursery in Tokyo from March to August, 2001 yielded the following major findings. Couples were classified into five types: (I) mother-centered; (II) couple-shared; (III) father-centered; (IV) dependent-on-maternal-grandmother type with subtypes (a) parents-grandmother and (b) mother-grandmother; and (V) hired babysitter type. These types corresponded to two different adjustment processes between couples. In the first process, most wives thought that parents should drop off and pick up children, and decided procedures after consultation with their husbands and leading this consultation. This process was observed among the II, III, and IV (a) couple types. In the second process, most wives thought that dropping off and picking up children was their job, and decided on this procedures without consulting with their husbands. This process was observed among the I, IV (b), and V couple types.View full abstractDownload PDF (1674K) -
Yuhei UemuraArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 132-138
Published: August 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 27, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purposes of this study were to (1) describe the personalities of late adolescents who were unbalanced in acceptance of self and others, (2) confirm that adolescents with high acceptance of both self and others had adaptive and mature traits, and (3) discuss these results from the viewpoint of developmental psychology. Adolescents (N=124) completed the Acceptance of Self and Others Scale, and the Individual and Social PN Orientedness Scales. The results showed that participants who reported high self-acceptance and low acceptance of others tended to have higher self-actualization but lower social adjustment. In contrast, those who scored low in self-acceptance and high in acceptance of others had lower self-actualization and a stronger tendency toward over-adjustment. In addition, adolescents reporting high self-acceptance and high acceptance of others were more adaptive and mature than other adolescents.View full abstractDownload PDF (877K) -
Tetsuya Nada, Shun'ichi MarunoArticle type: Article
2007 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 139-149
Published: August 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: July 27, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis research examined frequencies of error-bias as an index of internalization (Ratner, Foley, & Gimpert, 2002) as third grade children performed an "errand task" pre-test, collaborative session, and post-test (Radziszewska & Rogoff, 1991). To examine the degree of error-bias, the task in the collaborative session was divided into three activities (planning, determination, and execution), based on the sequence of problem-solving activities. The results showed that error-bias was observed in the determination activity, and those participants who showed error-bias ("bias group") in the determination activity improved the most in their performance. These results suggested that the bias group internalized an effectual strategy to find the shortest route to a solution, and consequently used this strategy on the post-test. In addition, qualitative analysis showed that in collaborating with others, children in the bias group found the effectiveness of self-corrective activities. They reexamined the better route themselves before making a final decision, and used such self-corrective activities in their collaborations.View full abstractDownload PDF (1390K)
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