An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.4.10 Communication Consciousness
of Boys and Girls in Their Homes
(Report 33, 1968. 149 pages)
This report contains general results of the investigation
for the following topics:
1) the nature of child-parent communication in the
home,
2) differences in the role of primary school, middle
school, and high school children in such communication,
3) differences between boys and girls at each age level,
4) differences between city children and farm children,
5) differences between children of families of various
occupational groups.
In 1963-64, a total of 2,974 children were investigated
in two local cities, Hukusima City in Hukusima Prefecture
and Matue City in Simane Prefecture, and one farm
village, Yanagawa in Date County of Hukusima Prefecture. The
children selected were in the fifth year of primary
school, the second year of middle school, and the second year
of high school.
This research produced the following results and
conclusions.
1) In communication, children are much more closely
related to their mother than their father, regardless of
educational level, sex, place of residence, and occupational
status of the family.
2) There is a tendency for the communicative relationship
of children to their father to weaken as they advance in age
(school level) and for the relationship to their mother to become
stronger.
3) In communication with their father, children tend
to take a passive listening role, while with their mother they
tend to take a more active speaking role. This
tendency is particularly noticeable in the case of girls.
4) Compared to the communicative relationship
between children and their parents, brothers, and sisters,
the relationship to their grandparents is very weak. In
particular, there is a great gap between children and their
grandfather, and a similar gap in the case of
brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.
5) The relationship between brothers and sisters is second
in strength to that with the mother, but the relationship with
older brothers is weaker than that with older sisters.
6) From the standpoint of sex, girls are more closely
related to the mother and sisters, while boys are more
closely related to the father and brothers. In other words,
family members of the same sex are more closely related
than members of the opposite sex.
7) Generally speaking farm village children have a
more passive attitude toward communication than city
children.
8) Compared to the children of shop-owners and
businessmen, farm village children have generally more
passive attitude toward communication.
9) The words used by children in calling their father
and mother are very different in farm villages and cities. In
addition, there are great differences in those used in
families of different occupational status.
WATANABE Tomosuke was in charge of the study.
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