When Yuji Ogiwara, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science and Takashi Kusumi, Professor of the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, measured the self-esteem of Japanese men and women between the ages of 16 and 88, it was confirmed that the self-esteem tends to increase with age. rice field.Unlike previous studies in Europe and the United States, there was no tendency for self-esteem to decline after the age of 50 in Japan, and it was also found that the development of self-esteem differs depending on the culture.
Self-esteem (overall evaluation of oneself) consists of self-favorability (emotional judgment of acceptance of oneself) and self-competence (a feeling that oneself is recognized as competent and effective).Research on self-esteem has been conducted mainly in the United States.
In the United States, self-esteem is high in childhood, declines in adolescence, then continues to rise in adulthood, and is said to peak in the 50s and 60s.However, in Japan, there are many previous studies dealing only with self-favorability, and comprehensive analysis has not been made, and there has been no sufficient consideration of people aged 70 and over.
Therefore, Assistant Professor Ogiwara et al. Analyzed six surveys conducted in Japan from 2009 to 2018.Each survey is conducting interviews to measure self-esteem from 6 people aged 16 to 88, and low self-esteem gradually increased from adults to the elderly in adolescence.There was almost no difference in this tendency depending on the gender, the time of the survey, and the components of self-esteem such as self-favorability and self-competence.
On the other hand, there was a difference in the developmental trajectory of self-esteem.In Europe and the United States, after the age of 50, people begin to take a humble attitude toward themselves, such as admitting their mistakes and limits, and their self-esteem declines. It was reported that he became a self-esteem even after his 50s.
Assistant Professor Ogiwara and his colleagues say that the results of this research can be expected to be widely applied not only to related research but also to social practice.
