著者

太田 伸幸

出版者

愛知工業大学

雑誌

愛知工業大学研究報告. A, 基礎教育センター論文集 (ISSN:03870804)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, pp.33-43, 2004-03-31

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This study aimed to examine the rivals, the interpersonal relations that presuppose competition. Among 393 high school students (242 men and 151 women)who cooperated, 165 students had a rival and 228 didn't. Students were investigated the consciousness toward competition of themselves and their rivals. Those who did not have a rival answered about a friend instead. First, a rival was categorized into "a standard", "a target person", or "a good match". It was shown that students with a rival had higher competitive consciousness and were more positive toward competition compared to the students without a rival. However, closeness was not a significant factor, which suggested that rivals were identified as friends at the same time. Second, path analyses revealed that each rival type had different path models. As for the relations of one-sided rival cognition ("a standard" and "a target person"), significant paths were drawn toward consciousness of the subject person only, but in the case of a relation of mutual rival cognition ("a good match"), paths toward consciousness of both the subject person and his/her rival were significant. This result suggested assuming the same cognitive process as him/her also to the rival.