TAT課題における自己体験と「自意識」

Abstract

TAT is helpful in psychotherapy. One of the reasons this is mentioned is that while looking over the TAT story by oneself, it becomes a self-experience and this may be the chance to understand oneself. In this study, subjects were asked to recall and write the stories they had made and to select their favorite story. Subsequently, they were asked as to how they themselves would be reflected in the story and then the self-consciousness scale for Japanese was carried out. The result was that subjects with a higher private self-consciousness, which were many, pointed out the relation of the story and their inner self. They had an active action of characters and had many stories with a happy ending. The stories of the subjects who pointed out the relation of the story and their inner self had conflicts and critical situations. In addition, many had stories with a happy ending. Although self-reference was made by pointing out the features of such a story, it was thought that self-reference was related to the features also, which the story of the subject with a higher private self-consciousness displayed. It was suggested that making the characters take active action in the story activated the autonomy of the level, which a subject couldn't be conscious of and that this led to self-reference.