著者

後藤 真一 椎塚 久雄

出版者

工学院大学

雑誌

工学院大学研究報告 (ISSN:03685098)

巻号頁・発行日

no.110, pp.97-103, 2011-04-30

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This paper investigated the peculiarity of a sentimental phenomenon called attachment to personal belongings. The aim is to examine the correlation between people and the belongings composing their living environment, in order to reveal what is important and meaningful for both their liver and their living environments. The Study looks at the relationship between experiences with belongings particularly close to the owner and feelings of attachment for them. A survey of experiences and sentiments about belongings with attachment was executed and factor analysis was used to bring out the components of attachment. The results verified the following: 1) in each group of samples with a similar tendency of factor scores, the experiences with belongings have something in common. 2) From the tendency of factor scores, there is a difference in attachment between things of the same kind. 3) The owners recognize the empirical products of relation to belongings. These results show the formation of an attachment is connected with various experiences with the belongings.