Junki Kazama

Mie University · Organization for Student Affairs

In the field of clinical psychology in Japan, there are some adolescent clients who are in a similar condition. This condition is “over-adaptation”. Over-adaptation is defined as the condition in which an individual is excessively engaged in self-inhibitive and others-oriented behavior in relationship with others (i.e., parents, peers, or teachers)...

In this study, we developed the Over-Adaptation Scale-Relationship Specified (OAS-RS) for early adolescents. Additionally, we investigated different characteristics of over-adaptation towards parents, peers, teachers by examining their relationships with school adjustment and stress response, and classifying individuals based on their over-adaptati...

This study investigated the cascading structure of over-adaptation from parents to peers and teachers, and its influence on school adjustment and stress in Japanese junior high school students. We defined over-adaptation as “the condition in which an individual is excessively engaged in self-inhibitive and others-oriented behavior in relationship w...

This study investigated whether personality and identity development influence empathy and psychological mindedness as professional skills of psychotherapist in Japanese early career psychotherapists. Japanese graduate students majored in clinical psychology (N=97) participated in this study. They completed a questionnaire that consisted of (a) Jap...

Article: Junki Kazama (2017). A review of studies about over-adaptation in adolescence. Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University (Psychology and Human Development Sciences), 64, 127-140. The present study is a review of “over-adaptation” in adolescence. In this study, the author reviewed the definition...

This study investigated the relationship between over-adaptation and school adjustment in Japanese junior high school students. We defined over-adaptation as “the condition in which an individual is excessively engaged in self-inhibitive and others-oriented behavior in relationship with others (parents, peers, or teachers)”. A total of 1180 Japanes...

This study investigated a proposed structural model of the relationship between over-adaptation and depression in college students. This model assumed that: (1) self- and other-perception (self-insufficiency and cynicism) predict external over-adaptive behavior (self-inhibition and other-oriented behavior); and (2) over-adaptation predicts depressi...