2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Relationship between Intolerance to violence and dissociative mechanisms in Japanese youth
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17591206
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Psychiatric science
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
OAE Hiroyuki University Hospital, Assistant Professor, 医学部附属病院, 講師 (80362242)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NISHIOKA Kazuo Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor, 大学院医学系研究科, 助教授 (80237669)
HAMAUZU Shinji Shizuoka University, Faculty of Humanities Social Sciences, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (70218527)
MURAKAMI Yasuhiko Nihon University, College of International Relations, Associate Professor, 国際関係学部, 助教授 (30328679)
TANABE Hajime Shizuoka University, Faculty of Humanities Social Sciences, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (60302361)
HURUHASHI Tadahito Research Center of Health, Physical Fitness, and Sports, Research Associate, 総合保健体育科学センター, 助手 (50402384)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Keywords | violence / unpredictability / dissociation / traumatic experience / autistic tendency / internet use |
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| Research Abstract |
Aggressive behaviors are sometimes committed by people who appear to their colleagues to be totally unremarkable. In order to detect the mechanism of this kind of outbreaks, preliminarily we picked up the equivalent cases from psychiatric patients, the result of which showed the possible participants of following three factors namely dissociation, traumata in the past and autistic tendency. And moreover, in order to detect the relationship between aggressiveness and these tendencies, we practiced some questionnaires to university and college students, which showed significant interrelations between aggressive traits and each of these three tendencies. These three factors are supposed to play significant role (21%) as the cause of aggressiveness. Further investigations suggested that dissociation could not cause aggressive behaviors directly, but in some way mediate the outbreak of violence. Psychopathologically plausible interpretation is such that although dissociation itself is a defense mechanism for the person to avoid falling in dangerous violence, it could set aggressive behaviors free in the snip end of it. The result of other statistical studies showed the significant interrelation between some contemporary customs like internet use and aggressiveness especially in female students. Although these results need further careful investigations, we should be cautious with the effect of generalization of media use on young people.
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