"Commu-phobic"tendency and friendship among contemporary college students

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  • 現代大学生の「ふれ合い恐怖的心性」と友人関係の関連についての考察
  • ゲンダイ ダイガクセイ ノ フレアイ キョウフテキ シンショウ ト ユウジン カンケイ ノ カンレン ニ ツイテ ノ コウサツ

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The purpose of this study was to explore how "commu - phobic tendency" related to the characteristics of friendship patterns among contemporary college students. Cluster analysis was used for variables concerning anthropophobic - and commu - phobic tendency, and four large clusters were found. Students in Cluster 1 showed a high level of anxiety toward emotionally close friends. They were also high on a subscale of the friendship - pattern measure, which measured the tendency to avoid intimacy with others. Unlike them, those in Cluster 4 scored high on a subscale measuring the tendency to be careful not to hurt friends. Those in Cluster 3 were high on a subscale measuring the tendency to be just together with friends without becoming intimate. These results suggest that "commu - phobic adolescents" who withdraw from interpersonal relationships are different from those who are less anthropophobic and able to maintain superficial relationships with others.

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