著者

青野 篤子

出版者

日本社会心理学会

雑誌

社会心理学研究 (ISSN:09161503)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.1, pp.51-58, 2003

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The oppression hypothesis, originally advocated by N. Henley, expects that superiors have greater control beyond their own space and claim greater space than subordinates. This projective study using computer simulation examined the effects of gender and status on both approach distance and approached distance among Japanese company employees to verify the oppression hypothesis. Results indicated that neither gender nor status affected the two types of distance, and thus the oppression hypothesis was not supported. Rather, the relation-ship of subjects and the persons they were interacting with was important. That is, subjects took the shortest distance with fellow officers and the greatest distance with superior officers. In particular, female subjects kept male superiors farthest away from them. Further studies are suggested to control status variables strictly and introduce cross-cultural standpoints.