The purpose of this article is to discuss responses to the following three questions: (a) who are significant others among junior high school students; (b) what is the familiar ranking to the father, the mother, the close friend, the teacher as the significant others; and (c) how are parent-child relationship factor and familiar ranking related? One-thousand eighty-eight junior high school students responded to the questionnaire. Removed from analysis are questions that incomplete answers. Main

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... results are as follows. Answers to the question, "Who are the significant others?" varies according to the different sexes. The significant others for boys were athletes (42%) and celebrities (23%). The significant others for girls were "big sisters" (31%), celebrities (26%), mother (26%), and friends of the same sex (23%). The average order of familiarity was mother, close friends, father, and homeroom teacher. The parent-child relationship factor, which refers to familiarity, was "we talk often." The result of the categorical regression analysis was as follows.