What does this quote say?


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The sentence in question is from もんだい number 2, line 5-7 (おんな):
一方、妻が夫にしてほしいと思っている第1位は「 **自分** が間違っていると思ったらすぐあやまってほしい」ということでした。

First, my attempt at translation: "On the other hand, the number 1 which wifes
wish their husbands to do was 'when he thinks that he himself is wrong I wish
he immediately apologizes'."

Until now, when じぶん was used it usually referred to the speaker himself.
However, at least in the way I understood the sentence, it wouldn't make any
sense if the wifes "wished" that they themselves did X, especially not what is
described here. I suspect that the じぶん




The gist of your understanding is correct, and your attempt at translating
this is very close. Let's look at the phrase in quotation marks:

> **自分** が間違っていると思ったらすぐあやまってほしい  
>  If he thinks it is **his own** mistake I would like him to apologize
> immediately.

In most sentences involving 自分｛じぶん｝, the subject of 自分 tends to be the
speaker. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that 自分 is used only to refer
to the speaker. As 自分 has the general meaning of about "one's own" or
"oneself", if the subject were not the speaker but something else, then 自分
refers to "oneself" for that subject.

When the subject of the sentence is the speaker, "oneself" is "myself".

If it's someone else, "oneself" is "(his/her)self".

If it's a group of people, "oneself" is "themselves" (as a collective). For
this, it's also common (if not more so) to hear 自分たち as well.

