Empirical study of economic socialization in children and adolescents

本研究的目的是探讨小学生和大学生的经济社会化过程。本研究的主要目的是从分析经济问题知识和经济技能的发展来探讨儿童对经济社会化的心理理解。第二个目的是讨论日本的金钱教育（经济教育、消费教育、金融教育）。绝大多数日本年轻人从未参加过金钱教育的课程或课程。收集的数据涉及经济知识、日常经济活动（例如，兼职工作，信用卡使用），和工作价值（例如，本研究主要探讨工作的意义、对自由职业者的态度，以及这些因素之间的关系。研究结果表明：1.家庭沟通是儿童建立健康工作价值观的主导因素之一.促进儿童健康的经济社会化，需要在家庭和社区的配合下，根据儿童的发展阶段，制定和实施金钱教育计划.在高校开设职业生涯教育课程，对提高和锻炼大学生的经济技能具有重要意义。

The study was investigated to clarify the economic socialization processes in primary school children and college students. Main purpose of the study was to explore the psychological understanding of children's economic socialization in terms of analyzing the development of knowledge of economic issues and economic skills. Second purpose was to discuss the money education (economic education, consumer education, financial education) in Japan. The vast majority of Japanese young people have never taken classes or courses in money education.Data were collected on economic literacy, daily economic activities (e.g., part time job, credit card usage), and work values (e.g., meaning of work, attitude to "FREETER"(freelance part-time worker), and interrelations among these factors were analyzed.Main results were as follows :1. It was suggested that family communication was one of the dominant agent to build up healthy work values of children.2. To promote healthy economic socialization of children, it is needed to develop and execute money education program according to children's developmental stages under the collaboration with family and community.3. It is important to open courses on career education in college to promote and elaborate economic skills of college students.