THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

This paper is to describe the heart of Japanese Association of Psychological Science as the followings: First, the research questions rise from the problems themselves, but not from the research methodology at first; Second, we perceive the person as a subject to construct his or her life, but not as a object that is just studied; Third, we see phenomena historically and critically. We specify these views to say that we understand a person as a subject with right: First, there is the relationships of equality, but not that of authoritarian and obligation; Second, assertion of right is owing to the duty to other people, but not only to his or her benefits; Third, it is fostered by the expectation-system among members who share goals.

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This paper is to clarify how our lives arise through the following three studies. First, a female who is a graduate student to be trained in university to a teacher of physical education at a high school is interviewed on how she connects such life goal with the experiences of past life events as a gymnast. The results show that, unexpected events lead to her recall of her wish when she was a child and then she shares her wish with colleagues, which process makes her set the future goal. Second, a male who is age 50's and a teacher is interviewed on how he overcomes a life crisis. The results also show that unexpected events lead to the recall of his previous experiences as his tale. Third, a questionnaire is administered to 71 undergraduate students whose age range is from 10' to 60' to describe expected and unexpected events at the moment. The results show that unexpected and expected events lead to their constructing of the sense of continuity and acceptance of their life limits and irreversible time.

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The purpose of this paper is to review and to discuss about the studies of creativity in Korea. The studies have been actively developed during the late 1990's and 2000's. At the beginning of the period, the relations among creativity, intelligence and school record were studied, and then not merely cognitive factor of creativity but also personal factor. Furthermore, the studies were expanded from domain-generality to domain-specificity. Especially, application of Csikszentmihalyi's system model (Choi, In Soo, 1998) was one of the remarkable results that would have offered turning point in the defining creativity of Korea and making alternative research direction. Important contribution of the research were raising concern to researchers on the theme "What is Korean model of creativity?". On the other hand, the research was meaningful as follows; creativity is depended not only on the personal factor but on the social and historical environment which the creativity was recognized and developed. From the implications of the results, the application of system model in the research for children would facilitate creativity program considering with the relations among "individual", "domain", and "field" in the environment of school education.

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