A
cross-cultural study of the feminine role concept between Japanese
and American college women
T. Inagaki |
The
purpose of this study is to investigate the concept of the feminine
role cross-culturally, comparing the Japanese with the American.
From the previous studies of the feminine role, it has been made
clear that there are two contradictory role concepts held by college
women, other-oriented and self-oriented. We used a Feminine Role
Rating Inventory by A. B. Fand in America and Japan. Japanese samples
were 100 taken, from a11289 subjects. American data sent by Steinmann
had 51 college women as the samples. Comparing the concept of the
feminine role of Japanese women with the concept of the American,
it is noted that on Own Self the Japanese women's concept is approximately
equal to the American women's concept, but as to Ideal Self the orientation
turns to the opposite. On the Men's Ideal Woman, the American students
are more other-oriented than the Japanese. In the Ideal Self concept,
there is the largest difference between the two cultures. From the
comparison with regard to the components of the feminine role concept,
the most remarkable differences between the two cultures are shown
in attitudes toward the husband and children and society.
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