著者

林 文 吉野 諒三

出版者

一般社団法人情報処理学会

雑誌

研究報告人文科学とコンピュータ(CH)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2014, no.8, pp.1-2, 2014-07-26

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1970 年代後半に林知己夫が中心となり企画した日本人の基底意識を探る調査は,「お化け調査」 と呼ばれている.お化け,妖怪,超自然ともいうべきものの捉え方を尋ねる質問で,社会一般の様々な意識や意見の根底をなす 「合理・非合理」 の考え方を捉えるものとして,その後,原子力に関する意識調査などでも用いられてきた.2000 年以降,アジア・太平洋地域の国際比較調査でも用いており,国・地域の特徴についても触れる.The set of survey research Chikio Hayashi and his associates have conducted in the late 1970's in Tokyo and Yonezawa to delve into such matters as the religious mind, traditional attitude, and feelings for supernatural phenomena is commonly known as the "ghost research". It was postulated that by asking people about their feelings toward various matters regarded as "supernatural" such as ghosts and spirits, one would create a proxy measure for the degree to which a given respondent possesses a "rational" or "non-rational" mindset - which in turn is to be regarded as one of the fundamental elements of personality that influence his or her thoughts and behavior. The measurement has then been used in other surveys as those studying the attitudes toward nuclear power. After the year 2000 it has also been adopted for the international comparative surveys in the Asia-Pacific region, the notable observations of which we like to discuss in this paper by country or region.