Why Japanese are negative regarding love
AdvertisementIt’s Sunday, so it must be goo Ranking day! This time they took a look at why people tend to be negative in matters regarding love, with separate rankings for both men and women.
Demographics
Between the 21st and 24th of April 2009 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.4% of the sample were female, 9.2% were in their teens, 13.7% in their twenties, 27.5% in their thirties, 27.5% in their forties, 11.7% in their fifties, and 10.4% aged sixty or older.
I’d have thought for men that number 7=, going out is too much bother, would be more highly ranked, as I feel a lot of Japanese women are high-maintenance.
Ranking result
Q: Why can’t you be proactive in love? (Sample size=520, male)
Rank Score 1 I’ve no self-confidence 100 2 It’s more fun being single 93.5 3= I’m afraid of getting hurt 69.6 3= I’m not a good talker 69.6 5 My ideals are too high 63.0 6 There’s no girls that match my type 60.9 7= I’m scared of commitment 54.3 7= It’s bothersome to be going out with someone 54.3 9 I just can’t attract the right woman 52.2 10 My salary is low 50.0 11 I’m busy at work 37.0 12 It’s bothersome making an approach 34.8 13 I’m the sort who’d rather be asked than ask 32.6 14 It’s more fun being with my friends 30.4 15 I’m not interested in getting married 28.3 16 I’m a perfectionist 23.9 17= I’m never experienced love 19.6 17= I can’t forget my ex 19.6 19= We’d just break up 17.4 19= Love doesn’t have a good image 17.4 Q: Why can’t you be proactive in love? (Sample size=551, female)
Rank Score 1= I’ve no self-confidence 100 1= There’s no guys that match my type 100 3 It’s more fun being single 97.3 4 I just can’t attract the right man 94.6 5 I’m scared of commitment 78.4 6 It’s bothersome to be going out with someone 75.7 7 I’m afraid of getting hurt 70.3 8 My ideals are too high 59.5 9= I’m the sort who’d rather be asked than ask 56.8 9= It’s more fun being with my friends 56.8 11 I’m not a good talker 48.6 12 My hobbies are more important than love 45.9 13 It’s more fun just being friends 35.1 14 I’m not interested in getting married 29.7 15 It’s bothersome making an approach 27.0 16 I’m busy at work 21.6 17 Love doesn’t have a good image 18.9 18= My salary is low 13.5 18= We’d just break up 13.5 20 Work is enjoyable 10.8
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Wow that’s very surprising to me @_@
What I find surprising is that salary concerns don’t rate very highly with either sex. With men I would have expected it to be a little higher, in that they might be concerned about the cost of wining and dining a potential partner. For women, spending money on looking good for a potential suitor isn’t as important as I would have first thought.
Speaking from personal experience, I spent more on dinners and travel before marriage and now that my wife controls the purse strings (she’s Japanese), I’ve never been so frugal. There is a financial benefit to being partnered, but this seems to be lost on the respondents to this survey.
Perhaps it is found in item 7= for men and 6 for women, that relationships are “bothersome”. Interesting snapshot.
As feminism evil from the west begin to exerts its power on the east side, we may begin to see more and more “Love doesn’t have a good image” popping up here and there.
Only time will tell.