| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | b076 |
| Survey Title | Monograph/ The World of Junior High School Students: "Loosening" and "Loss" of Normative Consciousness, 2003 |
| Depositor | Benesse Educational Research and Development Institute (Former Name:Benesse Corporation) |
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| Period of Data Use Permission | One year |
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| Summary |
When class starts, some students are in an unproductive daze. Even when they are late, they enter the classroom without a hint of embarrassment. Moreover, when their peers are cleaning up, they are nowhere to be found. These students are not intentionally malicious; they are mentally unhealthy. Their sense of morality is thought to have deteriorated. The purpose of this survey is to investigate the state of these students' sense of normality. According to this survey, students' sense of normality is neither strong nor irreparably broken. They say, "Eh, whatever" and choose the path that is the easiest for them. However, the accumulation of such actions will weaken their sense of normality. This entails minor rather than grave sins, so such behavior tends to be tolerated. As these students progress from their first year to their second and third years, however, their minor misdeeds tend to escalate to moderate ones. Even when no one is watching, these students act without shame. Nurturing humanity in such people seems to be rather difficult. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe | First- to third-year students attending 4 public junior high schools in Tokyo, Saitama, and Kanagawa |
| Unit of Observation | Individual |
| Sample Size | A sample of 1,528 （780 boys, 748 girls） |
| Date of Collection |
2003-05 ~ 2003-06 2003/5-6 |
| Time Period |
2003 ~ 2003 |
| Spatial Unit | saitama Tokyo/Saitama/Kanagawa |
| Sampling Procedure | |
| Mode of Data Collection | Questionnaire survey through schools |
| Investigator | Benesse Corporation |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.b076 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | |
| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | Please refer to the abstract in Japanese. |
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) |
| Documentation | 【 Questionnaire 】 |
| Major Survey Items |
(1) Views on school and learning Whether the respondent enjoys school, whether the respondent does their best in class even when they feel sleepy, whether the respondent resists using the restroom during class, actions the respondent thinks they should take/avoid during class, respondent’s activities during between-class breaks, respondent’s course of action when they cannot finish their homework on time, respondent’s attitude toward their school’s rules, respondent’s views on (un)acceptable actions (regarding homework, cheating, etc.), respondent’s reason for studying, respondent’s conception of their school, types of male junior high school students the respondent views as "cool," types of female junior high school students the respondent views as "cool," respondent’s activities on their way to school (2) Sensory boundaries How often the respondent cleans their shoes, things that make the respondent feel unclean, whether the respondent helps clean the dishes and dispose of trash, whether the respondent looks for lost items, sources of the respondent’s embarrassment, respondent’s thoughts about shoplifting comic books, respondent’s reaction to friends’ shoplifting, whether the respondent anticipates shoplifting in the future, whether the respondent views shoplifting as wrong, behavior the respondent wants to adhere to, actions the respondent views as permissible during summer vacation, identity of the person whose instructions the respondent is willing to follow, respondent’s current desires and things they do not want, matters that are important to the respondent at present, friends’ perceptions of the respondent, respondent’s definition of friendship (3) Respondent’s profile, etc. Grade, gender, respondent’s participation in club activities，whether the respondent is good at studying, amount of time the respondent spends studying at home on Sundays, respondent’s future prospects, whether the respondent has a fixed allowance, monetary amount the respondent spends per month, amount of money the respondent takes with them to school, amount of money the respondent takes with them on vacations, monetary amount the respondent spends on cell phones per month, type of people in the respondent’s household, whether the respondent thinks their household members regularly scold them, respondent’s self-evaluation |
| Date of Release | 2007/11/15 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Compulsory and pre-school education HEALTH SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS Children SOCIETY AND CULTURE Social behaviour and attitudes |
| Topics in SSJDA | Education/Learning |
| Version | 1 ： 2007-11-15 |
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |