Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education
Online ISSN : 1884-4553
Print ISSN : 0915-5104
ISSN-L : 0915-5104
A study of play behavior in Japan of today
Akiko KITADA
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2005 Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 31-42

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The purpose of this study is to try to clarify the tendency of current society through the analysis of play. The observation of play was made by female students between 2001 and 2003. I divided play into the following three kinds: 1. unconscious 2. lightly 3. hard. In the case of young children, they are “unconscious” and “hard”. Of adult, “lightly” and of elderly people, “hard”. And of the youth, a little “hard”. It seems that the adult would rather be busy for their daily life than play as they are satisfied with. It would be an index of “qol” that we have enough time for play in daily life or we want that type of life. In this meaning, I feel that the maturity of the present Japanese society is still in a low level. Moreover female student's examples of play shows the following: 1. they are highly interested in their family and child care, 2. they are highly interested in the same generation, while little in the other generation, especially the middle age men. It seems to indicate the tendency of young not to try to connect with the outer world activity.

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