How do university students perceive the society?

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  • 大学生は社会をどのように捉えているのか

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We investigated how university students perceive their society. Three-year university students (N=3, 102) that participated in an online survey and were requested to describe “What does society mean to me?” In Study 1, 102 words that were most often used in the collected data were analyzed using Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling. The results indicated eight clusters and confirmed a dimension showing positive and negative perspectives. In Study 2, 102 words were encoded and 12 codes were extracted, which were classified into three types; four codes suggesting a positive perspective (“growth,” “cooperation,” “connection,” and “learning”), five codes suggesting a negative perspective (“strict,” “tough,” “hard to live,” “difficult,” and “cannot understand”), and three codes suggesting a moderate perspective (“working,” “earning,” and “rules”). In Study 3, correlations between the above 12 codes and their attributes were examined using a chi-square test. Men often used words related to “cooperation” and “earning,” whereas women often used words related to “learning” and “hard to live.” Moreover, words relevant to “connection” were often used in three major metropolitan areas, whereas words related to “hard to live” were often used in rural areas. The 12 codes that were extracted indicated that “Cooperation” was included in codes suggestive of a positive perspective, which is interpreted as university students’ recognition of themselves as the backbone of society.

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  • CRID
    1390009226114326016
  • NII Article ID
    120007160189
  • NII Book ID
    AA11961954
  • DOI
    10.15002/00024312
  • HANDLE
    10114/00024312
  • ISSN
    13493043
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • IRDB
    • CiNii Articles
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