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Noise by illumination interaction effect on learning efficiency was statistically significant,
F(1,19)=5.527, p=0.03.
4028.150 How do people make a good trip?: The relationship between travel skills and travel
career, Kumiko Namba, Hideshi Kodaira, Mitsuyo Fuse, Kenichi Kukiyama, Nagoya
University, Japan
This study explored the relations between travel skills and indices of travel career. Eighty-one
Japanese were asked to describe the characteristics of people who have travel skills. A scale for
travel skills was developed based on these descriptions, and administered to Japanese adolescents
(N=382) along with other scales. The results indicated that travel skills had little relationship with
the number of times traveled, but were related to the quality of travel. Regarding motivational
career those who were motivated to travel for the purpose of understanding the self scored high on
the skills. Meanwhile those concerned with safety had low scores.
4028.151 Comparative study of work value of Chinese and Japanese workers, Yan Li, Department
of Social Psychology, Jilin University, China
The purpose of this study was to investigate some differences in the relative importance of work
values among Chinese and Japan business workers. Data were collected from samples of men and
women workers 20 to 50 yrs-old in China, and Japan. The questionnaire was composed of 24
work value items and subjects were asked to indicate how important the felt each work value was
to their work. The method is dual scaling, that was applied to the rating data of work value, and
then the rank orders of work values were obtained from the optimal weight for work value.
4028.152 Housing for the elderly: Is the format the formula? Danielle Maltais, Université du
Québec à Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
This poster discusses the existing links between four organisational characteristic of resedency for
the elderly as well as their psychological well-being. 238 elderly living in private housing facilities
was interviewed. Results show that two of four organisational characteristics are associated with
the psychological well-being of the elderly, vulnerable or not. These variables are the level of
service and subjective perception the elderly have of their level of control on decision making
qualified here as perception of environmental control. The results shows the importance of
offering different living environments with various characteristic which takes into consideration
the capacities of the elderly.
4028.153 The distribution of people and activities on the market streets: Human behavior on urban
market street in East Asia (1) Vietnam, Takehiko Baba, Kyushu University, Japan
The present series focused on the urban street environment in East Asia. The first report
investigated the distribution of people on the urban market streets. At the old downtown in Hanoi,
people on the street were recorded in several time periods with their location, properties and
activities. Logistic-regression analysis was conducted to clarify the distribution of people and
environmental factors. Results showed that the distribution of people on the street varied widely
and its variance was related to the time periods and the street activities such as traditional tea
stalls.
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