The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of college camp course including adventure program on type A characteristics. The subjects were 69 college students who participated a five-day camp held in September.
Type A characteristics was measured with KG typeA scale by Yamazaki (1992). The camping group was measured post-camp and after one month. The self-growth was measured with self-growth scale by Kajita (1975). The manifest anxiety was measured with MAS: Manifest Anwiety Scale (Japanese version). The camping group was measured post-camp, immediately after camp and after one month
The following results were obtained:
1) The camp group showed significantly positive changes in achievement motive, and kept after one month.
2) The group of Type A who was selected this study, showed no significant changes in Type A characteristics.
3) Type B group and Middle group showed significantly positive changes in achievement motive, and kept after one month.
4) Type B group and Middle group showed significantly positive changes in Type A characteristics after one month.

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The aims of this research are to examine the activities of the Sea Scouts just before World War II, and consider the reaction of the Scouts who participated in these activities. In this research, the following three topics are taken up as concrete examples of sea activities where the Scouts who got in the training ship, which the Boy Scouts of Nippon got from Hokkaido Imperial University.
First, the participation in the naval reviews held in 1927 and the following year. Second, the boarding to the training ship by H. M. the Emperor Showa in May, 1930. Third, the long voyage to Southeast Asia between July and November, 1934. These activities must have had big influence on the Scouts. Since this research took up these Sea Scouts activities just before World War II as case studies in outdoor educational research, it did not dare have touched on the political intention or ideology by the adults in these activities. Rather, I have forcused on showing clearly the historical facts, what the Scouts had been experienced through such activities. The historical record which I mainly used is the bulletin “Shonendan Kenkyu” which Shonendan Nihonrenmei, the Boy Scouts of Nippon, had published every month.

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