<資料・研究ノート>ジャカルタの日本人と家事使用人 : 対人関係における期待の齟齬をめぐって

Abstract

This is one result of research conducted by the author in Jakarta in 1975/76 with the help of Jopie Wangania. Sixty-eight Japanese wives and eighty-nine Indonesian domestic employees were interviewed intensively to discover any gap in expectations. The Indonesian housemaids regard Japanese wives as stingy, in spite of the relatively good wage they actually pay. The employees' judgement on stigyness bore a close relationship to the employers' behavior patterns in giving small gifts to the employees. The main complaints on the part of Japanese wives were that the maids tend to move frequently from employer to employer and that they seldom apologize when they do something wrong.