Based on the responses of the householders to the “Social Stress Scale”, we intended to analyse and compare stress-patterns between “Kaso (thinly-populated)” and urban communities. We obtained 28 core-profiles, by factor-analysing the scale, calculating “factor-item-scores” for each subject, and adopting cluster analysis, Further, we found 9 types finally by reducing the number of these core-profiles by the Hayashi's III. Five (low-stress, high-stress-for-institutional-systems, high-stress, high-stress-in-vocation-and-business, and high-stress-for-dwelling-circumstances), out of the nine, were extracted from the “
Kaso”, and three (low-stress, high-stress-for-institutional-system, and high-stress-in-vocation-and-business) from the urban, and the rest (high-stress-for-educational-and-cultural-facilities) was related to both “
Kaso” and urban. The description of each type by the representative cases revealed the progress of urbanization and complexities in the “
Kaso” community. Methodological problems were also discussed.
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