Inferiority Feeling and its Compensation: From the Questionnaire and TAT

TOMOJIRI, Naomi

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

劣等感とその補償について : 質問紙とTATを用いた調査より
レットウカントソノホショウニツイテシツモンシト TAT オモチイタチョウサヨリ

Search this article

Description

Individuals sometimes have an inferiority feeling in human relationships and compensative action often accompanies inferiority feelings. In Study Ⅰ , an Inferiority Feeling Scale was developed, and reliability and validity were established. The 272 subjects were divided into high (n=90), middle (n=92), and low (n=90) groups by score. From the relation with “Individual and Social PN Orientedness Scale, ”a strong inferiority feeling was related to the internal and interpersonal maladjustments, the lack of one implied egoism. Moreover, the author composed“A Scale of Inferiority Response Characteristics, ”and a factor analysis revealed 5 factors: effort orientation, defensive reaction, substitute behavior, resistance to display inferiority feelings, and denial of inferiority feelings. Subjects with strong inferiority feelings were more defensive and adopted less substitute behavior than those without inferiority feelings. In StudyⅡ, research using Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) suggested that high-score inferior feeling group(n=10) tended to assume internal struggles as a cause of negative self-image, to compensate for inferiority with imagination, and to be more dependent. In conclusion, individualization is no less important than socialization in the study of inferiority feelings and the characteristics of response to inferiority feelings differs between subjects who have a strong inferiority feeling and those who don’t .

Journal

Kyoto University Research Studies in Education

Kyoto University Research Studies in Education 57 211-224, 2011-04-25

京都大学大学院教育学研究科