U.S. and Japanese female university students' attitudes toward school uniforms

摘要

To gain better perspective on school uniform adoption, we investigated the effect of contrasting experiences (wearing or not wearing school uniforms during secondary school) on U.S. and Japanese university student attitudes toward uniforms. The responses of female students in Tokyo (n=188) and Virginia (n=167) to the questonnaire survey were analyzed (1) by comparing response means to 36 attitude statements using independent samples t-test and (2) by considering correlation patterns using principal component factor analysis.