A STUDY ON THE ENERVATION OF MALE UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS

It is often said that university students in Japan are comparatively passive and enervated. However both the peculiarity of Japanese adolescent process and the diversity of enervation must be taken into consideration. The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the meaning of the variety of enervation in relation to such adolescent aspects as pycho-social moratorium, mentality of student apathy and identity development. Passivity Area Scale, Moratorium Scale, Apathy Mentality Scale, Identity scale were administered to 522 male freshmen. The data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. It was shown that the passivity in the area of campus was more serious than in the area of class and study. From the analysis using covariance structure analysis it was found that the structure of passivity in the area of campus was different from that in the area of class and study in so far as it was related to anhedonia seriously considered an apathetic mentality and a basic identity confusion.