Research on the Affective Aspect of Imagery (4th report) : Differences of Images between Objects and between Sexes

埼玉県越谷市This is the 4th report of successive on the affective aspect of imagery. In this study a special questinnoaire named QIAI (Questionnaire for the inquiry of affective imagery) was used the same as in the former studies (Uesugi, T., 1981, 1983, 1984). The QIAI is a list of paired words with a rating scale. The left word of each pair is the "object word" (32); self, father, mother, family, social, and so on. The right is the "affective word" (8); joy, hope, love, astonishment, sorrow, fear, anger and disgust. Subjects were 359 male and 559 female students in the Bunkyo University. The result of the factor analysis concerning every object word suggested that there are conciderable differences for the degree of the positive and negative feeling of 8 affective words toward a specific object. For example, astonishiment toward the art represents some positive feeling , but toward the friend represents some negative feeling. And differencies of affective images between sexes were also showed. Astonishment toward the pleasure in man represent his positive feeling, on the other hand in woman her negative feeling to it