2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
共感的関心や社会的支援による精神的健康への効果：文化・遺伝的要因を含めた検討
| Project/Area Number |
21J13794
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
ZHENG SHAOFENG 名古屋大学, 情報学研究科, 特別研究員(DC2)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-28 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Empathic concern / Relational concern / Social support seeking / Mental health / Culture / Childhood experiences / Gene |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
1)I finished STUDY1 about the cultural differences in support seeking. The results showed that compared to European Canadians/Americans,higher relational concern and lower empathic concern discouraged Japanese people from seeking social support in response to daily stress,and this reduced support seeking worsened feelings of loneliness.And I wrote a paper"Cultural differences in social support seeking:The mediating role of empathic concern"which has been published on PLoS one last December.2)I finished a study regarding OPRM1×perceived parental attention on support seeking.I found that only for those with OPRM1 GG genotype,perceived parental attention significantly promote support seeking.It was submitted to Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
First, regarding STUDY 1, in addition to two studies planned, I conducted another two follow-up studies to explore the mechanisms underlying the link between empathic concern and support seeking and cultural differences in empathic concern. Second, regarding STUDY 2, I also conducted a survey among Chinese international students in U.S. By doing so, I attempted to replicate and extend the findings found among Chinese international students in Japan. Now, I am analyzing the data of these three studies and writing my dissertation.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I will write my dissertation and prepare my dissertation defense until August. I plan to obtain my degree in this September. After that, I will write a manuscript regarding the mechanisms underlying cultural differences in empathic concern and the positive link between empathic concern and submit it to an international journal (e.g., Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology). Also, I will write a manuscript regarding the roles of support seeking in cross-cultural adaptation and submit it an international journal. Meanwhile, I will start data collection of STUDY 3 in a laboratory at Nagoya University in the fall semester of 2022. I plan to finish the data collection and analyses of this study by the end of 2022.
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