Intimacy Avoidance, Depression, and Ego-Identity in Japanese Young Adults
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- Ito Ryo
- Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
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- Murase Satomi
- Nagoya University Center for Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
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- Yoshizumi Takahiro
- Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
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- Murakami Takashi
- Faculty of Sociology, Chukyo University
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- Other Title
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- 現代青年における“ふれ合い恐怖的心性”と抑うつおよび自我同一性との関連
- ゲンダイ セイネン ニ オケル フレアイ キョウフテキ シンセイ ト ヨクウツ オヨビ ジガ ドウイツセイ トノ カンレン
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between tendency to avoid intimacy and depression and ego-identity in Japanese young adults. Two-hundred ninety-two university students, 125 men and 167 women, completed a questionnaire measuring the tendency to avoid intimacy with others, anthropophobic tendency, and depression and ego-identity. They were divided in data analysis into three groups: intimacy avoiding, anthropophobic, and no phobic/avoidant. ANOVA showed that intimacy avoiders endorsed fewer depressive symptoms and had higher scores on ego-identity than the anthropophobic. It was also shown that intimacy avoiders had lower scores on two ego-identity subscales than those without phobic or avoidant tendency. These results suggested that intimacy avoiders had better mental health than the anthropophobic, although they may be more prone to ego-identity crises in interpersonal relationship than those who were less afraid of intimacy.
Journal
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- The Japanese Journal of Personality
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The Japanese Journal of Personality 16 (3), 396-405, 2008
Japan Society of Personality Psychology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001205213256320
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- NII Article ID
- 110006820565
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- NII Book ID
- AA11873802
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- ISSN
- 13496174
- 13488406
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- NDL BIB ID
- 9578498
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
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- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed