This paper examines the basic construction of analytical viewpoints for time management generated every day in preschool education, built on the interactions between children and nursery teachers. First, this paper examines punctuality and adjustment based on previous studies related to time management and organizes the temporal characteristics of preschool education compared with elementary school education, showing the significance of case studies. Second, this study indicates survey methods and analysis based on qualitative survey data in preschools. By focusing on 〈an end of time〉 in preschool life for analyzing time management, the analysis claims that nursery teachers pay close attention to children to focus on the personality of each child and to maintain the collectivity of children in preschool education. In conclusion, this study shows how the temporal characteristics of preschool education connecting home life and school life are related to the effectiveness of school and social life after preschool.

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How do we capture temporal order, which is an invisible abstract concept? A lot of previous works have shown that the concept of temporal sequence, such as past-future or temporal earlier-temporal later, is highly involved with space. In particular, many research by gesture tasks and reaction time tasks have examined the relationship between horizontal left-right space and concept of temporal order, and then, showed that the culture, which have left to right writing direction relates left space to temporal earlier and right space to temporal later, and the culture, which have right to left writing direction has the opposite pattern. In this research, we examined that how temporal order of a series of image sequences is unfolded in horizontal space in Japanese, who has multiple writing directions in daily life, by using implicit reaction time task. As a result, Japanese participants also showed the space-time pattern, which similar to many culture, which have left to right writing direction (i.e. left space to temporal earlier and right space to temporal later). However, the pattern was weak and partial compared with previous studies, suggesting the possibility that cultural difference in writing direction are related to retrieval strategy of temporal order.

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Time perception and feelings, as well as emotions, are known to be correlated. However, few studies have been conducted on this issue. In this study, participants (N=271) were requested to imagine situations in which they perceive time as flowing slow or fast, and characteristics of the situations were compared. Moreover, correlations between the two situations and depressive tendencies were explanatorily investigated. Depression was assessed using a depression scale. Furthermore, participants were requested to freely describe situations in which they felt time that was flowing slow or fast, and text-mining analysis of the data was conducted. The results indicated that in settings in which time was perceived as flowing fast, the percentage of positive items such as “pleasant” was high, and “pleasant,” “hobby/amusement,” and “others” were correlated. Moreover, in settings in which time was perceived as flowing slow, there was a high percentage of negative items such as “unpleasant,” and “unpleasant” was correlated with “studies,” whereas “boring” was correlated with “part-time job.” Also, participants with depressive tendencies tended to describe contents related to “sleep” in settings in which time is perceived fast. These results suggest the possibility that psychological time could be related to emotional valence and depressive tendencies.

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According to the spread of media for self-representing such as Internet bulletin boards, the risk that companies are suffering from “Flaming” is increasing. For the purpose of minimizing the damage from “Flaming”, this study presented the methods to evaluate “Flaming” phenomena quantitatively for Internet bulletin boards. Specifically, the situation of “Flaming” was indexed with deriving a new measure of “Flaming index” calculated using the number of postings, considering the change according to the time of day. And it was tried to grasp the temporal variation from the waveform of “Flaming index”. However, due to the feature of Internet bulletin boards, the waveform plotted using the physical time unit occasionally contained the cases in which the actual situation of “Flaming” cannot be reflected. Therefore, “Thread” that is consisted of a constant number of postings was adopted as the alternate time unit in order to calculate “Flaming index”. The waveform of “Flaming index” illustrated using “Thread” as the time unit became more smoothed compared to that plotted with the physical time unit. As a result, it became easier to distinguish in observation whether the time series of calculated index value is in the “Flaming” situation or not. In addition, it was showed that there is a possibility to conduct the prediction of “Flaming” more effectively using the quantified data calculated with “Thread” as the time unit. As our results of analyzing “Thread-lag” cross correlation between “Flaming index” and the number of postings of specific words or symbols, it was suggested that the decrease in communication among participants can be a sign of “Flaming”. As a future issue, based on the results of this study, it is necessary to create an algorithm to determine the beginning and the end of “Flaming” automatically from the waveform of “Flaming index” and the contents of postings.

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