Year: 1988
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The SEAS (Self-actualization Scale) which have been improved from the POI (Personal Orientation Inventory by Shostrom, E. L.) is an inventory to measure values and behaviors important in the developement of the actualizing person, one who is more fully functioning and lives a more enriched life. The SEAS is 60-item three choice test consisting of 10 categories: Self-Acceptance. Acceptance of weakness, Way of Positive Life, Self Assertion, Self-Directedness, Separateness, Achievement Orientedness, Obsessiveness and Integration of Bipolarity. We have carried out the SEAS test on 889 healthy subjects who visited to Institute of Health Science, Kyushu University during a period of 1981 to 1987. Result of the SEAS was compared with each age class of 10 years period. In subjects with lower age (in 10 and 20 age bracket) mean score of "Self-Acceptance", "Way of Posilive Life" and "Achievement Orientedness" were low level compared with subjects in middle and higher age (in 30 and 50 age bracket). Mean score of "Way of Positive Life" and "Achievement Orientedness" increased in order of age. The characteristics of the subjects drawn from result of the SEAS were as followed: they were active, Lively, positively to their life and serious, eager, precicely everything but not so confident and not assertive and they may behave moderatey. (Jounal of Health Science, Kyushu University. 10: 49-57, 1988)
DOI: 10.15017/493
Authors: 裕章 山田, Hiroaki Yamada, 修 峰松, Osamu Minematsu, 昭子 冷川
Institution: Kyushu University
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W127208198