Akihiro MasuyamaIryo Sosei University · Faculty of Psychology
Akihiro Masuyama
Ph D.
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Introduction
Researcher of Clinical Psychology. Current my research interests are 1) depression and cognitive control, 2) depression and anxiety in adolescents, 3) development of cognitive control, 4) Cognitive Behavior Therapy, 5) implementing positive psychology for society, and 6) COVID-19 and mental health. Through ResearchGate, I hope to connect with international researchers who have similar research interest. : )
Publications
Publications (32)
Background
This study examines mediation models in which behavioral inhibition and activation systems (BIS/BAS) impact internet addiction through mental health and the moderating roles of innate and acquired resilience in the models.
Methods
The data set used in this study was a cross-sectional survey among 952 adolescents in July 2021. Internet A...
Background: Deteriorating economic conditions caused by rising inflation and living expenses can have negative consequences for university students. This comparative study examined Israeli and Japanese “help” profession (e.g., medicine, nursing, social work, and psychology) students’ fear of such conditions and its impact on their health and well-b...
Major depression is one of the most common mental health problems worldwide. More than one-third of patients suffer from treatment-resistant depression (TRD). In this study, we explored the feasibility of group compassion-focused therapy (CFT) for TRD using a randomized controlled trial with two parallel groups. Eighteen participants were randomly...
Background
Extensive literature revealed the relations of depression with behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and behavioral activation system (BAS) as vulnerability and with resilience separately. Besides, the concept of resilience is still broad and ambiguous. Thus, this study aimed to reveal the mediation of two aspects of resilience: trait and p...
COVID-19 has been a global challenge ever since its emergence, with reports suggesting negative effects on the mental health and well-being of people. We investigated the associations of the socioeconomic changes driven by the pandemic, illness, well-being, and fear of COVID-19 in Japan. Totally, 565 Japanese individuals completed an online survey,...
An underlying concern about the COVID-19 pandemic is the decline of children’s mental health. The present study is aimed to investigate whether a single school-based intervention, including self-monitoring and psychoeducation for COVID-19, effectively achieved its aim to promote children’s mental health. The study was conducted in a junior high sch...
The relationship between trait rumination and working memory has not been well established. Previous studies have shown that high ruminators have poor working memory in general, while others have shown that they have superior working memory ability. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that high ruminators have an imbalanced working memory ability,...
Background
The current study examined how psychological resilience acted as a buffer against mental health deterioration during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We conducted an online survey in four countries (Japan, Malaysia, China, and the U.S.) to examine how psychological resilience functions toward the maintenance of mental he...
In the context of the global outbreak of COVID-19, there is an urgent need to explore the effects of this pandemic on the mental health of adolescents. The present study aims to adapt and validate a Japanese-version Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) with a sample of adolescent students from Japan. To this end, the Japanese-version FCV-19S, Generaliz...
Objectives
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of people worldwide. Psychological resilience has been shown to buffer against the threat of the pandemic (i.e., COVID-19 fear) and sustain mental health. The extent to which psychological resilience factors impact mental health maintenance, however, is unclear, given broad differences...
As the ongoing pandemic limited the lives of the general population, people engaged in their favorite activities; either in alternative ways or while disregarding the restrictions. These activities and people's engagement in such activities are considered to have a significant impact on mental health. Thus, this study aimed to examine the relations...
Covid-19 outbreak started on December in China, and fastly it was propagated in all the world. Later, during the second week of March, it was declared as pandemic by World Health Organization. Japan has the first case on January 3, 2020 and the first report deaths was on February 18. The scope of this work is to analyze how Japanese people faced th...
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00580-5
Due to the negative psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, it is necessary to study the factors that improve mental health. In this study, we evaluated changing income, self-restraint, fear of COVID-19, depression, anxiety, stress, and ego-resiliency, to investigate the main and moderating effects of ego-resiliency on psycho...
In the context of a recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the present study investigated the buffering effect of grit on the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and psychological distress. The data were collected from 224 Japanese participants (98 females; mean age = 46.56, SD = 13.41) in July 2020. The measures used in this stud...
As the pandemic limited our lives, people engaged in their favorite activities; either in alternative ways or while disregarding the restrictions. These major activities and our engagement in these activities of life are considered to have a significant impact on our mental health. Thus, this study aimed to examine the relationship between two type...
Aim: The threats of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) have caused fears worldwide. The Fear of COVID‐19 Scale (FCV‐19S) was recently developed to assess the fear of COVID‐19. Although many studies found that the FCV‐19S is psychometrically sound, it is unclear whether the FCV‐19S is invariant across countries. The present study aimed to exa...
An underlying concern about the COVID-19 pandemic is that the mental health of children will decline. The present study aimed to investigate whether a single school-based intervention, including self-monitoring and psychoeducation for COVID-19, effectively achieved its aim to promote children’s mental health. The study was conducted in a junior hig...
In the context of a recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the present study investigated the buffering effect of grit on the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and psychological distress. The data were collected from 224 Japanese participants (98 females; mean age = 46.56, SD = 13.41) in July 2020. The measures used in this stud...
Due to the negative psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, it is necessary to study the factors that improve mental health. In this study, we evaluated changing income, frequency of going out, fear of COVID-19, depression, anxiety, stress, and ego-resiliency to investigate the main and moderating effects of ego-resiliency on...
Previous research has demonstrated that deficits in cognitive control for context processing are related to depression. However, it remains unclear whether sad mood affects context processing in cognitive control. The present study investigated whether sad mood influences context processing in cognitive control in non-clinical individuals with mild...
The global challenge of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been emerged and continued up to now. These reports suggested that research of investigating the effect of COVIID-19 pandemic on mental health and well-being. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relations among socioeconomic changes driven from the pandemic, ment...
Exploring the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of adolescents is urgently needed. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a Japanese-version Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) among adolescents. Japanese adolescents administered the Japanese-version FCV-19S, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7), Patient Hea...
Although previous studies reported a relationship between cognitive dysfunction and depressive symptoms, whether context processing relates to symptoms of depression remains unclear. Hence, the question of whether context processing in depressed individuals is negatively specific or a general deficit also remains unanswered. The purpose of our stud...
Numerous studies have revealed that addicted individuals have attention bias related to addictive subjects, however, little is known about the relationship between attention bias and internet addiction. In this study, we have investigated whether social networking sites (SNS)-addicted individuals show attention bias for SNS- related pictures.
Projects
Projects (2)
The spread of the new coronavirus has led to an increase in stress, fear of infection, self-restraint from leaving one’s home, and the shift to telework. This type of stress is collectively known as "coronavirus fatigue". Since increased stress is a cause of physical and mental illness, there is an urgent need to identify factors that reduce coronal fatigue. This study examines resilience as a psychological factor that reduces coronal fatigue. In addition, the status of the spread of the new coronavirus and the support system differ from country to country. Therefore, this study will be an international comparison of the association between coronal fatigue and psychological resilience in four countries (Japan, the United States, China, and Malaysia).
- Select cities to analyse
- Collect, clean data
- Analyse data
- Share data for analysis from different approaches
- Invite people to get involved on this project.
