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This study focused on the process of balancing school work, club or other extracurricular activities, and parttime jobs during the university years, with the aim of clarifying how each activity relates to the “abilities acquired through balancing activities,” and what implications these abilities have for working adults’ lives after employment. The study was conducted on 1,872 working adults (936 males and 936 females) who were asked how they had balanced the three activities of schoolwork, club or other extracurricular activities, and part-time jobs when they were students and were asked to select one of nine options of balancing styles that combined these three activities. As for the “abilities acquired through balancing activities,” they were also asked to select one ability they acquired most from 15 options prepared in advance. The most common answer for “abilities acquired through balancing activities” was “sense of responsibility” and logistic regression analyses revealed significant relationship to “gender” (more significant in female than male) and “engagement with part-time jobs” (more significant in those who worked hard on part-time jobs than those who did not.) The second most common answer was “time management” with which “school work group” and the “part-time jobs group” showed significant positive relations. That is, it is speculated that school work and part-time job have a stimulatory influence on “effective use of time. In particular, the odds ratio for the part-time group was over 2, which is relatively high. Next, looking at the results by group, the “part-time jobs group” had a higher selection rate than the other groups for “ability to keep a calm mind” as well as “sense of responsibility” and “time management.” In the “club or other extracurricular activities group,” the selection rate of “passion and vitality” was higher than that of “time management,” and the selection ranking of “leadership” was also higher than that in the other two groups. These results indicated that each of the activities discussed in this study: school work, club or other extracurricular activities, and part-time jobs, can be related to the distinctive abilities that can be acquired because the students worked hard in the activities in the environment of university life where they must be balanced with other activities. It was also speculated that the more one strives to “balance” multiple activities they take on, the more one’s abilities acquired become comprehensive. By taking on a variety of challenges during their college years, students will be able to hone their latent talents and overcome many hardships and conflicts, which will lead to acquisition of well-balanced abilities needed for working adults. |
