University Student’s Conscious Attitudes toward Coming of Age Costumes

• Published in: Journal of Textile Engineering Vol. 57; no. 6; pp. 163 - 169
• Main Author: TAMURA, Kazuko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Osaka The Textile Machinery Society of Japan 2011; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: Coming of Age costumes; Conscious; Factor analysis; University students’ opinions
• ISSN: 1346-8235; 1880-1986
• DOI: 10.4188/jte.57.163

In this paper, university students’ opinions on conscious attitudes toward Coming of Age costumes were studied. The results obtained by factor analysis are as follows: 1) The factor structure of female university students’ conscious attitudes toward Coming of Age costumes is interpreted as (F1) desire to wear, (F2) impracticality, (F3) festive dress, (F4) evaluation by men, (F5) coming of age, and (F6) economics. 2) As a result of comparing of the factor scores between people who like Kimonos and those who neither like nor dislike them, it was found that people who like Kimonos rated significantly higher than those who neither like nor dislike them in the case of (F1) desire to wear (p<0.01) and (F2) impracticality (p<0.10). 3) As a comparison of the factor scores between people for whom the Coming of age ceremony is very necessary and those for whom it is not, it was found that people who need the Coming of age ceremony very much rated significantly higher than those who do not in the case of (F6) economics (p<0.01), (F3) festive dress (p<0.05), and (F4) evaluation by men (p<0.10).