世論 What Japan Thinks

Or into anyone of any age’s heart, in this survey from goo Ranking looking at what moments make people feel they wanted a lover, despite not normally thinking about the matter. I presume for already happily-married people they recalled their youth.

Demographics

From the 5th to the 7th of September 2012 1,006 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 10.5% in their teens, 13.7% in their twenties, 26.6% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, 11.7% in their fifties, and 9.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

For me, it was probably number 2 at New Year that was one of the strongest impulses! Seeing this in my living room would do the trick too:

Ranking result

Q: Even if you don’t normally think about it, what situations would make you feel you wanted a boyfriend or girlfriend? (Sample size=1,006)

Rank		Score
1	When I want to go on holiday, to an event but there is no-one to ask to come along	100
2	When I spend my birthday, Christmas alone	97.5
3	When the cold weather starts drawing in	91.4
4	When my good friends find someone	87.5
5	When I get moved by a romantic drama, movie, manga, etc	69.6
6	When I see an ideal couple when out and about	67.5
7	When I feel my daily life is in a rut	61.4
8	When I get depressed about work	59.3
9	When I think about my age	44.6
10	When I see a couple opposite on the train sleeping on each other’s shoulders	33.9
11	When I realise I’ve been spending all my time recently with people of the same sex	31.8
12	Even when I make food, there’s no-one to come and eat it with me	30.0
13	When my parents, relatives nag me to get married	26.4
14	When I have slipped into the role of “that unattached person”	25.4
15	When I turn off the lights in my room at night and look out of the window	24.6
16	When I get my workload under control and have some space for love	24.3
17	When I feel it’s no fun having a drink at home after work alone	23.6
18	When I feel my only pleasure is eating	23.2
19	When I buy some new clothes, etc, but there’s no-one to show them off to	19.6
20	When I feel no-one has been complimenting me recently	15.4
21	When I want someone to take me places	13.2
22	When I see a “Couples Half-Price” promotion	12.5
23	When I get my fortune told and my love line is strong	11.4
24	When I see other people’s photos from dates on their SNS	10.4
25	When I finish a game with a love theme	8.6
26	When an invitation to a dating party becomes an irritation	8.2
27	When I realise I don’t post anything to my SNS at weekends	7.5
28	When I continue dieting for no real reason	6.8
29	When I see that an SNS friend has changed their status from “Single” to “In a relationship”	5.0
30	The next morning after inviting friends of the same sex round to stay	3.6