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Mitsuyo Kondo; Hideo Kato – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2024
This study aimed to explore how the peer support programme gave influences on technical high school pupils in Japan. The study invited a total 76 pupils (37 in an intervention group and 39 in a control group) to be involved into the peer support programme and assessments. The participants were annually assessed three times by adopting four scales,…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Self Esteem, Adjustment (to Environment), High School Students
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Hideyuki Haraguchi; Masahiko Inoue – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Parent training (PT) for parents of children with developmental disabilities (DDs) has recently been recommended in community settings in many countries, including Japan. Research has shown PT could improve parenting skills and mental health in parents as well as improve adaptive skills and reduce behavioral problems in children. Despite evidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
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Yoshimi Ito; Kyoko Asakura; Shoko Sugiyama; Nozomu Takada – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: People with intellectual/intellectual and physical disabilities frequently use day-service centres, an array of services that involve the provision of care and social activities during the daytime and offer homebound people with disabilities opportunities to live in their communities. While nurses working at day-service centres for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nurses, Intellectual Disability, Physical Disabilities
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Yu Takizawa; Yuki Matsumoto; Yuma Ishimoto – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2024
Psychological well-being (PWB) encompasses the positive aspects of mental health, such as hedonic wellbeing (experience of enjoyment and pleasure), eudaimonic wellbeing (experience of self-actualization), and life satisfaction (global evaluation of quality of life). Japanese teachers suffer from poor PWB with a high incidence of mental health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Mental Health
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Yoshikawa, Koichi; deLeyer-Tiarks, Johanna; Kehle, Thomas J.; Bray, Melissa A. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2019
In the past few decades, as Japan has navigated a rapidly shifting social landscape that has altered the underpinnings of Japanese society, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) has attempted to adapt by undertaking multiple revisions and reforms to the national education law with important implications for the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Social Change, Educational Legislation
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Fujiwara, Takeo; Okuyama, Makiko; Izumi, Mayuko – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The authors test the hypothesis that separation from a violent husband or partner improves maternal parenting in Japan and examine how childhood abuse history (CAH), experience of domestic violence (DV), mental health problems, husband or partner's child maltreatment, and other demographic factors affect maternal parenting after such separation. A…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Marital Status, Child Abuse, Mothers
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Nishikawa, Saori; Sundbom, Elisabet; Hagglof, Bruno – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
We examined the associations between perceived parental rearing, attachment style, self-concept, and mental health problems among Japanese adolescents. About 193 high school students (143 boys and 50 girls, mean = 16.4) completed a set of self-report questionnaires including EMBU-C (My Memories of Child Upbringing for Children), AQC (Attachment…
Descriptors: Females, Mental Health, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals)
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Sittiprapaporn, Wichian, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Learning disability is a classification that includes several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner. Depending on the type and severity of the disability, interventions may be used to help the individual learn strategies that will foster future success. Some interventions can be quite simplistic, while others are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Academic Achievement, Learning Disabilities
Izutsu, Satoru; Rose, Charles L. – 1987
As part of a larger study of the demographics, family, household, health, diet, activity, functioning, and mental ability of older Japanese people living in Hawaii which will be compared to similar studies conducted in Japan, personality data were obtained from 101 noninstitutionalized Japanese with an average age of 92 years, residing in Hawaii.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cooperation, Cross Cultural Studies, Mental Health
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Satake, Hiroyuki; Yamashita, Hiroshi; Yoshida, Keiko – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2004
We investigated whether the correlates of family psychosocial characteristics among Japanese children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) differ according to the comorbid condition of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) or conduct disorder (CD). Three groups of children (12 ADHD, 15 ADHD + ODD/ CD, and 14 control) were compared on…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Foreign Countries
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Jou, Yuh Huey; Fukada, Hiromi – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Classifies and discusses five stress variables affecting the mental health of Chinese students living in Taiwan. These include interpersonal problems, academic problems, health/living problems, financial anxiety, and environmental problems. Although detrimental to mental health, these factors exerted little influence on physical health or…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Chinese Culture, College Students