The Japanese Journal of Personality 27(3) 210-220 2019 [Refereed]
In this study, we investigated the relationships between Grit (Consistency/Perseverance) and burnout tendency (Emotional Exhaustion/Depersonalization/Personal Accomplishment) and social status using an online survey of human service professionals ...
Third parties intervene in others’ behaviors in various ways, such as punishing a harmdoer and/or helping a victim. Moreover, third parties may reward generous altruists. As such, various types of third-party intervention strategies are conceivabl...
The Japanese Journal of Research on Emotions 22(3) 118-127 Mar 2015 [Refereed]
This study investigates the relationship between confidence and regret. We predicted that high levels of confidence-where confidence is defined as reduced counterfactual thinking-would limit the experience of regret. A previous study by Gilovich &...
The Japanese Journal of Psychology 84(4) 386-395 Dec 2013 [Refereed]
This study investigates characteristics of burnout, as related to job descriptions in mental hospitals and presuppositions of the concept of burnout (burnout is caused as a result of having enthusiasm for a job). The results of a questionnaire sur...
Japanese Journal of Social Psychology 28(2) 87-93 Jan 2013 [Refereed]
The purpose of this study is to reveal people's feelings in Japan about "burnout/moetsuki." In Study 1, we conducted a content analysis using articles in newspapers to confirm the usage of burnout/moetsuki. Results indicated that burnout/moetsuki ...
Japanese Journal of Biofeedback Research 37(2) 97-103 Oct 2010 [Refereed]
This study focuses on heart rate variability to evaluate the autonomic nervous function of patients with anxiety (19 female and 6 male patients with an average age of 47.7 years). We measured the low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) componen...
Studies in the Humanities and Sciences 57(2) 163-169 Feb 2017
In this study impressions regarding “yorisoi” (cuddle) with human service professionals were investigated. Participants (N=202) assessed their impressions of human service professionals after reading six short vignettes. The two independent variab...
Igawa Junichi, Nakanishi Daisuke, Ura Mitsuhiro, Sakata Kiriko
Social information Science 20 29-42 Dec 2015
Burnout has a positive image as being "the result of enthusiastic engagement," and in this research, we examined interaction between past enthusiasm for job and reward in order to investigate whether this premise is actually true. We initially pro...
A comparison of stigma toward burnout versus depression
Junichi IGAWA, Daisuke NAKANISHI, IOTAKE
12 Jul 2019
Examination of the development of “typical burnout” using a behavioral experiment
Igawa, J, Kawamoto, T., Iotake, R., & Nakanishi, D.
The 126th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association 11 Aug 2018
The present study explored a development of typical burnout using behavioural experiment. How much enthusiastic workers are is one important factor of job burnout. We predicted that participants with a high sense of mission for their job would mai...
Is burnout triggered by hard work?
Igawa, J., Wang, W., & Nakanish, D.
The 12th Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology 28 Aug 2017
A previous experimental study indicated that enthusiasm levels did not affect mental fatigue (Igawa et al., 2014). This is inconsistent with the assumption “that a typical burnout victim is a professional full of idealism and a sense of mission (P...
Differences between burnout and laziness by focusing on self- and others’-evaluations
Igawa, J., Wang. W., Nakanishi, D., Sakata, K., & Hamada, N.
International Association for Relationship Research Conference 21 Jul 2016
People with burnout symptoms, including emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, could easily be considered being lazy, and they might experience more self-condemnations because of the stigma of being lazy. Therefore, differences between lazine...
Effects of enthusiasm on mental fatigue: Mechanism of "typical burnout"
Igawa, J., Wang, W., Nakanishi, D., & Sakata, K.
The 11th Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology 20 Aug 2015
We used a fictional vignette to investigate the process of enthusiasm and reward leading to burnout. This research revealed that human service workers with a high sense of mission maintained enthusiasm in the condition without rewards, and as a re...
