The purpose of the present research was to examine the features of apathy i
n relation to how adolescents feel about their lives during 3 levels of sch
ooling : junior high school, high school, and college. A questionnaire cove
ring apathy and such topics as school adaptation and social support was giv
en to 275 junior high school students (142 boys and 133 girls), 337 high sc
hool students (169 boys and 168 girls), and 337 college students (164 men,
159 women, and 14 unidentified), for a total of 949 students. The main resu
lts were as follows : (1) Factor analysis revealed 3 factors in the apathy
scale : self-unknowing, personal distrust and dissatisfaction, and feeling
of fatigue. (2) The results of ANOVA showed that the factors of self-unknow
ing and feeling of fatigue fell in the college student level, and that the
developmental aspects of personal distrust and dissatisfaction varied, depe
nding on the student's gender. (3) In the junior high school and high schoo
l students, feelings of school adaptation about wanting to study and relati
ons with friends were connected with apathy. For the male college students,
but not the females, friends' support was strongly connected with the fact
or of personal distrust and dissatisfaction.