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This study examined the structure of compliance-resisting strategies. The participants (180 male and 192 female undergraduate students) were presented with one often hypothetical situations, which were high and low conditions of each of five situational dimensions (intimacy, dominance, resistance, rights to resist, and relational consequence). They were asked to imagine themselves in the presented situational condition, and to rate the likelihood of use of 38 compliance-resisting strategies. A factor analysis showed that 33 strategies were classified into seven categories: disguise-delay, compensation, demand for self-solution, explicit refusal, cheating by laughter, modesty, and nonverbal refusal. It can be said that cheating by laughter, modesty, and nonverbal refusal are the three strategies newly found in the present study, and that those are regarded characteristic in the Japanese culture. Seven compliance-resisting strategies were arranged in order according to the likelihood of use: (1) explicit refusal, (2) compensation, modesty, (3) cheating by laughter, nonverbal refusal, (4) demand for self-solution, (5) disguise-delay. Moreover, females showed a greater likelihood of use of strategies than males. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]