A Study of Statistical Science on Structure of Basic Consciousness ---Cultural Link Analysis concerning Religious Feelings and Daily Life---

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With the possibility of use in future international comparative projects in mind, we conducted mail and web surveys in certain geographically restricted regions in Japan under a carefully designed, systemic research plan. Our aim was to locate the underlying mental structure of Japanese people with regard to such things like visceral religious feelings and sentiments within the context of everyday life and the values that support it. We applied the perspective of the Cultural Linkage Analysis in analyzing the data, being cautious in accounting for any possible bias stemming from the low response rate in the mail survey and from the variability among respondents across the web surveys whenever possible. Across the data sets that we comparatively analyzed, we found that variations in responses to the items related to the underlying mental structure such as visceral religious feelings were smaller than those observed for attributs and differences in the patterns of IT use ; we were able to obtain useful insights for future research from the patterns in which these variations emerged.