Consumers' and educators' recognition of functionality in selecting shoes for children : -Comparison between Japan and Germany-.

消费者和教育工作者对选择儿童鞋的功能性的认可：-日本和德国的比较-。

• 批准号: 15500524
• 负责人: KATASE Mayumi
• 金额: $ 2.43万
• 依托单位: Kinjo Gakuin University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2003 至 2004
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15500524/
• 关键词: shoes; children; functionality; Germany; Japan; consideration; 子供靴; 消費者行動; 足の症状

Shoes are important tools to support man's upright positioning, and to bear walking. Especially shoes for children play an important role very much in helping the body and foot growth in child development, and securing an enough exercise. This research investigated consideration a selecting the shoes for children and recognition concerning the functionality. The research participants were consumers and educators in Japan and Germany. The investigation clarified many issues.The survey in Japan investigated about 2,812 guardians (collection rate 70%) in nationwide (Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu) from 18 kindergartens and 5 nurseries. It appeared that the Japanese guardians has not recognized the importance of shoes and carelessly purchased their children's shoes. As a result, many of their children were given ill-fitting shoes and appealed trouble symptoms. Investing day nursery teachers showed the tendency to value the speed of the taking off putting on more than the … More functionality. Moreover, it was found by the marketing research that most shoe shops did not have professional shoe fitters and offered consumers a large amount of cheap shoes and shoes with character prints which catch children's eyes without enough professional advice.The investigation in Germany included the marketing research and survey at elementary schools, kindergartens, and the day nurseries in three regions (Berlin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, and Miinchen). Moreover, factory visits at Ricosta Co. and plastic operation shoes atelier Turk-studio of the shoes for children manufacturer clarified the shoes circumstances of Germany. The survey at elementary schools showed that German children and guardians had fewer foot trouble symptoms than Japan. German families seemed to already recognize that shoes have an important role to support a body and it is necessary to fix feet and shoes the guardians acknowledged that tie shoes were the best shoes. However, there was a tendency to like felt-tipped marker belt shoes and sports brand shoes even in Germany as the children's the age goes up. Less

鞋子是支撑人直立、承受行走的重要工具。尤其是儿童鞋，对于帮助儿童发育中的身体和足部生长、保证足够的运动起着非常重要的作用。这项研究调查了为儿童选择鞋子的考虑因素以及对功能的认可。研究参与者是日本和德国的消费者和教育工作者。此次调查澄清了许多问题。 日本的调查对全国（关东、中部、近畿、中国、四国、九州）18所幼儿园和5所托儿所的约2,812名监护人（收集率70%）进行了调查。看来日本家长还没有认识到鞋子的重要性，粗心地购买了童鞋。结果，他们的许多孩子都穿了不合脚的鞋子，并出现了麻烦症状。投资日间托儿所的老师表现出更看重起飞速度的倾向，而不是功能性。而且，营销调查发现，大多数鞋店没有专业的鞋匠，向消费者提供大量廉价的鞋子和带有吸引孩子眼球的人物图案的鞋子，没有足够的专业建议。德国的调查包括对三个地区（柏林、杜塞尔多夫、法兰克福、弗莱堡和明兴）的小学、幼儿园和托儿所进行营销调查和调查。此外，还参观了童鞋制造商Ricosta Co.和塑料手术鞋工作室Turk-studio的工厂，了解了德国的鞋子情况。对小学的调查显示，德国儿童和监护人的足部疾病症状比日本少。德国家庭似乎已经认识到鞋子对于支撑身体有重要作用，有必要固定脚和鞋子，监护人承认系带鞋是最好的鞋子。然而，随着孩子年龄的增长，即使在德国，也出现了喜欢毡尖记号带鞋和运动品牌鞋的趋势。较少的