{"title":"Prospects for Clinical Reports on Selective Mutism Conducted in Japan: A Scoping Review<sup>1</sup>","authors":"Daichi Iimura, Natsuki Tsujita, Hiromichi Hagihara","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12476","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This scoping review examined clinical reports for selective mutism (SM) in Japan, the progress of literature, participants' demographic characteristics, and achievements of interventions. Multiple online databases were used to identify articles published before May 2021; a total of 175 articles and 218 participants were selected. The majority of articles followed a single‐case design, and there has been an increase in the number of articles published over the last few decades. The participants' ages and genders were similar across different countries. Only 20.2% of participants were diagnosed with SM; 31.7% had comorbidities, with SM symptoms being the most common complaint. The most common intervention program was a weekly hour‐long treatment session and less than a year of intervention. About half of the participants used assessment tools, with 21.6% reporting a quantitative outcome. The most commonly used intervention methods were behavioral therapy and play therapy. This review systematically maps SM research in Japan and advocates further high‐quality research.","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136023684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is School Absenteeism a Spectrum? Development and Validation of Japanese Futoko Spectrum Quotient (<scp>FSQ</scp>)<sup>1</sup>","authors":"Yuejiang Hou, Yuki Harada, Masayoshi Ota, Hiromichi Kato","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12480","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study aimed to develop and validate a scale called the Futoko Spectrum Quotient (FSQ), which measures school absenteeism ( futoko ), as a method to achieve the early identification of at‐risk students. We recruited 673 students and 119 futoko students from secondary schools and educational support centers. The results showed that the bifactor model had better fit, proposing a general (G) factor representing avoidance motivation and an orthogonal specific (S) factor representing psychological distress. We then examined the measurement invariance and continuity of the latent bifactor construct of the FSQ, correlations of the FSQ with external variables, and measurement reliability to validate the FSQ. Our findings highlight the need to focus on students’ mental state prior to the emergence of absence behaviors and the significance of the present scale in theory and practice.","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136298783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to Precarious Lives Predict Culturally Deviant Psychologies: Extending the Psychology of Marginalization From Japan to the US","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12482","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Norasakkunkit, V., Champagne, B., Prietto, K., Armor, J., Ball, C., Bigoni, H., & Cutuli, A. (2022). Precarious Lives Predict Culturally Deviant Psychologies: Extending the Psychology of Marginalization From Japan to the US. <i>Japanese Psychological Research</i>, <b>64</b>(2), 127–140.</p><p>In the top part of figure 2 (US chart), I made a clerical error when I recreated figure 2 in order to submit a higher quality version of the chart during the proofing process. The labels in the legend for the lines in the chart were inadvertently reversed between “High Risk” and “Low Risk” when recreating the chart. Specifically, the label for the “High Risk” line should have read “Low Risk,” and the label for the “Low Risk” line should have read “High Risk”.</p><p>I apologize for making this clerical error during the proofing process.</p>","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"65 4","pages":"399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpr.12482","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50138509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Attitude and Behavior of Japanese Managers Toward Male Employees Taking Long‐Term Parental Leave1,2","authors":"Hiromi Ono","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12474","url":null,"abstract":"Promoting male parental leave has become a concern for the Japanese government because of the large gender gap that exists in terms of availing parental leave. This study identified management attitudes and behaviors regarding long‐term male parental leave. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 14 private‐enterprise managers and supervisors whose male staff had taken at least 1 month of parental leave. The collected data were analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach, from which six groups, 19 categories, and 49 concepts were generated. It was found that (a) overcoming difficulties associated with long‐term male parental leave resulted in diverse management behaviors; (b) managers often felt that male employees were being unreasonable by taking parental leave; and (c) managers realize the need for male parental leave systems once they observe changes in employees after returning to work.","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78826777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Internal Focus of Attention and Interoceptive Abilities on Golf Putting Performance","authors":"Kanta Mizuno, Hiroaki Masaki","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An internal focus on movement interferes with automated movement execution, but physical sensations may not diminish performance. We hypothesized that interoception—a perception of the inner workings of the body—is associated with maintaining performance under internal focus. Eighteen competitive swimmers with high interoceptive ability and nine controls with no sports experience executed a golf putting task under pressure and no-pressure tests, while the direction of attentional focus was manipulated. We recorded electroencephalograms and electrocardiograms during the task in three attentional conditions (i.e., sensation-focus, movement-focus, and no-focus instruction). Interoceptive accuracy was evaluated by a heartbeat counting task and interoceptive sensibility was obtained using the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness questionnaire. Results showed that internal focus on movement led to lower performance compared to the no-focus instruction in both groups, whereas focusing on physical sensations did not change performance. Higher interoceptive sensibility predicted better performance when focusing on movement. These results suggest that higher interoceptive ability may prevent performance deterioration due to an internal focus toward movement.</p>","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"65 4","pages":"277-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpr.12478","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50119416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dispositional Associations Between Interoceptive Attention Tendencies and Effortful Control: Cross-sectional Findings from an Online National Survey of Japanese Working Adults","authors":"Takuya Fujikawa, Russell Sarwar Kabir, Atsuhiko Funabashi, Yu Kawamata, Yutaka Haramaki","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12479","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Interoceptive attention tendencies (IATs) have been theorized to include facets of awareness and evaluative aspects for skillfully attending toward one's bodily sensations in a regulatory manner. However, the relations between IATs and factors for the trait-like control of behavioral effort are unknown. Here, we tested associations between IATs measured via the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) and control-related factors from the Effortful Control Scale (ECS) for adults in a nationally representative online survey of 500 Japanese working adults (analytic sample, <i>N</i> = 463; 274 females, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 46.63 years, <i>SD</i> = 11.58 years). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis for the MAIA showed acceptable model fit for the six-factor model similar to previous studies with Japanese respondents. Adjusting for the influence of age and gender, partial correlations indicated that the evaluative dimensions of the MAIA were positively correlated with the Inhibitory Control, Activation Control, and Attentional Control factors of the ECS (Pearson's partial <i>r</i>s range .14 to .25, <i>p</i>s < .01). Exploratory multiple regression analysis indicated that the Attention Regulation factor of the MAIA was a statistically significant predictor of effortful control modeled as total score. Taken together, the results were theoretically consistent with previous studies investigating relations with trait-like factors of personality and mental health indicators for full-time workers in Japan. Relative to the constructs of awareness, our empirical correlations provide specificity for the construct validity of IATs with trait indicators of effortful control and implications for implementation research.</p>","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"65 4","pages":"310-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpr.12479","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50119420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of the Conceptual Structure of Growth Mindsets and Their Impact on Self-Improvement Motivation","authors":"Hiroki Takehashi, Junko Toyosawa, Satoshi Shimai, Maki Yananose","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12469","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpr.12469","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined the conceptual structure and motivational effects of growth mindsets based on the perspective of character strengths. An internet survey was conducted with 1,000 workers (500 males and 500 females; age range 20–59 years, <i>M</i> = 40.1 years, <i>SD</i> = 10.7 years). Participants were presented with 25 strengths (i.e., intelligence and 24 character strengths) and were asked to rate their perceived competence, growth mindset, and improvement intention for each strength. The exploratory factor analyses on perceived competence, growth mindset, and improvement intention identified five common factors: wisdom, willpower, temperance, transcendence, and groupness. Moreover, regression analyses indicated that a growth mindset was more strongly related to improvement intention than perceived competence. Furthermore, regression analyses found domain-specific effects of growth mindsets on improvement intention. Thus, the intention to improve a particular strength was more closely related to that particular growth mindset than to other growth mindsets. The theoretical and educational implications are aired in the discussion section.</p>","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"66 2","pages":"166-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpr.12469","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85991557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Takes the Clue? Relationships Between Internal and External Factors in Creative Problem Solving1","authors":"R. Orita, Masasi Hattori","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12470","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the relationship between implicit environmental clues in a creativity task and individual differences in state change and personality traits. In two experiments, participants completed a Remote Associates Test. Some solution words were implicitly primed as clues. In Experiment 1, the clue priming effect turned from negative to positive depending on task progress, which is related to arousal state. Clue priming can hinder people's generating ideas depending on arousal. In Experiment 2, considering participants' personality traits as a moderator, we further examined the relationship between sensitivity to environmental clues and arousal measured by heart rate. The results confirmed Experiment 1's outcomes and revealed that the relationship is moderated by extraversion. For extraverted participants, an implicit clue had a negative effect in a high‐arousal state but a positive effect in a low‐arousal state. The facilitative or obstructive influences of external factors can be determined by the interaction of internal factors (i.e., solvers' traits and states). Thus, extraverts and introverts differ in how they receive and utilize external information.","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80557324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Male and Female Laboratory Rats Equally Acquire Running‐Based Flavor‐Aversion Learning1","authors":"S. Nakajima, Mengwei Li","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12481","url":null,"abstract":"Laboratory rats can be conditioned to shy away from a flavored substance consumed immediately before running in activity wheels, suggesting flavor‐aversion learning. We examined whether the factor of sex impacted running‐based flavor‐aversion learning. A differential conditioning procedure was employed in Experiment 1: The measure of learning was the degree of differentiation in the intake of a target flavor solution paired with running and an unpaired non‐target flavor solution. Flavor‐aversion learning was observed as a gradual decrease in the intake of the target solution, which was absent in that of the non‐target solution. Although females ran more than twice as fast as males, the degree of differential conditioning was similar for males and females. This was the case not only for absolute intake but also for intake per body weight and change from the initial intake (percentage decrease). The null effect of sex was replicated in Experiment 2, which employed a simple conditioning procedure. These results suggest that rats’ running‐based flavor‐aversion learning is a robust phenomenon, despite the subjects being male or female.","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72662149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Toshiki Saito, K. Hugenberg, Kosuke Motoki, R. Nouchi
{"title":"Ageism Hinders Mental Attribution Toward Older Adults: Translation and Validation of the Japanese Version of the Mind Attribution Scale1","authors":"Toshiki Saito, K. Hugenberg, Kosuke Motoki, R. Nouchi","doi":"10.1111/jpr.12472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12472","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of ageism on mind attribution in older adults remains unclear. For this study, the Mind Attribution Scale—a measure of intentional, cognitive, and emotional mental attribution—was translated into Japanese. The Need to Belong Scale was used to confirm construct validity. Therefore, the effect of ageism (measured using the Fraboni Scale of Ageism) on mind attribution was investigated through 892 participants (age range: 20–83 years) recruited through crowdsourcing. Participants were asked to rate the degree of their mental capacity after reading the vignettes. The findings showed that the three components of the Mind Attribution Scale were valid measures with high internal consistency and criterion validity. Participants tended to ascribe more emotional components, but not intentional or cognitive components, to older adults. Those with stronger ageist attitudes were less likely to attribute their mental capacity to older adults. The results suggest that when considering older individuals rather than a group, people tend to have more positive attitudes and mentalize older adults, while negative ageism may contribute to dementalization.","PeriodicalId":46699,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Psychological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85654818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}