The relationships between attraction of same-sex friend and relationship-maintenancemotivation in the light of personal importance

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  • 同性友人に感じる魅力が関係継続動機に及ぼす影響 : 個人にとっての重要性の観点から
  • ドウセイ ユウジン ニ カンジル ミリョク ガ カンケイ ケイゾク ドウキ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ コジン ニ トッテ ノ ジュウヨウセイ ノ カンテン カラ

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The purpose of this study is to clarify what is interpersonal attraction of same-sex friends, and to clear up its effects on relationship-maintenance motivation in terms of personal importance. Two hundred and two undergraduates responded the questionnaires about their same-sex friendships. They rated how attractive they regarded their friends by using friends’ attraction scale, which made through preliminary study. Also, they answered the degree to which each item on the scale was important to them. The results showed mainly three findings as below. First, factor analysis of friends’ attraction indicated four factors; security, stimulus, faithfulness, and independence. Second, based on importance to the participants, they were divided into four clusters; security-emphasis, stimulus-emphasis, independent- emphasis, and non-emphasis. Finally, in independent-emphasis cluster, stimulus had a most strong effect on the relationship-maintenance motivation. In every other cluster, security had a strong effect on that. The discussion considered the relationships between friends’ attraction and relationship-maintenance motivation and the role of personal importance in those relationships.

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  • 対人社会心理学研究

    対人社会心理学研究 10 115-123, 2010

    大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科対人社会心理学研究室

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