THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REGULATING FACTO RS OF SELF-EVALUATION AND SELF-ESTEEM - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INNER AND OUTER FRAME AS AN IDIOGRAPHIC APPROACH

Recently an idiographic approach into a nomothetic method has been the eyes of the world. Higgins, E.T. & Endo.Y. are quite famous for stres sing the significance of this approach, though Higgins' approach is a little different from Endo's : the former is seen as an approach that a person represents idiographic points spontaneously while the latter is seen as an approach having a person select his own idiographic poin ts in some items given by a researcher. The former is called ''inner f rame as an idiographic approach'' and the latter is called ''outer fra me as an idiographic approach.'' The purpose of this study is to exami ne the relationship between inner frame and outer frame as the base of factors regulating self-esteem or self-evaluation. At the results, bo th high-self-esteem group and low-self-esteem group can select many re gulating factors through outer frame and are also easy to represent th em through inner frame. Furthermore, regulating factors in ambivalent self-evaluations are also examined, and the relationship between inner frame and outer frame is eventually better clarified.