The privatization phenomenon in the familial world was empirically studied, with particular attention paid to the relations between the family and external systems.
Terms originally defined for our study are: 1) “privatization” as a horizontal division and 2) “individuation” as a vertical division. In consideration of these two types of social divisions, we conceptualized new concepts to clarify and examine actual ongoing situations. They are: INDIVIDUATED PRIVATIZATION (IP) and ORIENTED INDIVIDUATED PRIVATIZATION (OIP).
Among many variables around “privatization” and “individuation”, we focused primarily on “affection” and “individualism in general attitudes”. The principal findings are as follows:
1. While the observed was the highly oriented familial privatization that shows a preference for the family over the external systems, it has almost nothing to do with the attitudes which make for the importance of affectional ties in couples/families.
2. “IP” is not preferably oriented so much as being discussed in general, in families with “highly OIP”, the clearly weaker affectional ties in couples/families are detected relatively out of proportion.
3. “OIP” has no relevance to individualism, with some exceptions. It is thus plausible to say that the spreading of and the deepening of individualism is the trigger resulting in individuation of the family in Japan, but, although the exception, there are some corvariational relationships between “OIP” and individualism. This may perhaps be an indication of some changes occurring within the current Japanese family.
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