Tai Kurosawa

Ibaraki Christian University · Welfare and Psychology

The transition from high school to university is characterized by changes in students' social and learning environments, potentially impacting sleep and learning behaviors. To examine the sleep characteristics of university students, this study aimed to (a) measure sleep in a living environment using a wearable tracker; (b) use a self‐administered...

Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective effo...

Predictions of marital satisfaction can be used to address individual well-being and family problems. This study investigated the factors predicting marital satisfaction from a dyadic perspective. Relational support, relationship-focused coping, and internal stressors were independent variables. I conducted a cross-sectional postal survey in 2019....

Data are an essential foundation of social science, and web surveys are a significant data collection method. A meta-analysis showed that web surveys tended to have about 11% lower response rates than other types of survey methods, which was recently confirmed by another study. With the support of a research company, this study identified subtypes...

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Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflec...

The purpose of this study was to quantitatively clarify the physical and mental health of first year university students whose classes were conducted online due to COVID-19. The checklist of Visual Display Terminal (VDT) syndrome suggested that physical stress was placed mainly on the eyes, shoulders, neck, and head. In addition, from the results o...

掲載雑誌：精神科

Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated ge...

Original paper is available in the following link: " https://bit.ly/2EeV47E " We validated the Japanese version of the Multidimensional Stress Questionnaire for Couples (MSQ) and examined construct validity and reliability. We conducted an online longitudinal survey of 300 husbands and 300 wives. The Japanese version of the MSQ (MSQ-J) had a two f...

Our study aimed to clarify coping and preventative behaviors used by couples when experiencing stressful events. We used qualitative methods with a focus on the joint interview method (Arksey & Knight, 1999), in which the researcher interviews two participants simultaneously to gain an understanding of both perspectives on the same phenomenon. In t...

People seek self-verification from others. Previous studies suggest that striving for self-verification (e.g., the disclosure of accurate self-information and the preservation of a sense of coherence about oneself in social relationships) functionalizes couple relationships in Western cultures. However, there has been little research on couples in...

This study elucidated the relationship-focused coping patterns of Japanese child-rearing couples. Participants were 101 Japanese couples with at least one pre-school child who was attending one of four daycare centres. Questionnaires included a Japanese version of the relationship-focused coping questionnaire, the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale,...

Couples cope with their stress as a unit rather than two isolated individuals. Couples coping were well examined by the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI) in European and American population, but not in Asian population. We aim to examine the applicability of DCI in Japanese married couples. Participants were 44 heterosexual couples in Japan. They answe...

Stress can bring a couple’s marital relationship into crisis. A couple’s relationship-focused coping is their cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage and sustain their relationship during a stressful episode. Previous studies regarding relationship-focused coping sampled mainly couples with medical problems and identified two types of behavior:...

We developed the Coparental Regulation Inventory to assess the regulatory behavior of the mothers in involving fathers with child rearing. We translated and modified the short form of the Parental Regulation Inventory (PRI) for Japanese couples in different stages of child rearing. An online questionnaire was conducted with mothers (n = 500) and fa...

The Parental Attitude Scale (PAS: Suzuki et al., 1985) was revised to assess child-rearing attitudes of contemporary parents. An online questionnaire survey was conducted with mothers (n = 489) and fathers (n = 383) with the first child aged between 2 and 22 years. Exploratory factor analysis identified three factors that were labeled: “Acceptance...

Successful coping involves maintenance of relationships during time of stress, through a process called relationship-focused coping. This article reports the development of a Scale of Relationship-Focused coping, and an examination of its validity and test-retest reliability. Participants were 117 Japanese parents, contacted through two kindergarte...

Successful coping involves maintenance of relationships during time of stress, through a process called relationship-focused coping. This article reports the development of a Scale of Relationship-Focused coping, and an examination of its validity and test-retest reliability. Participants were 117 Japanese parents, contacted through two kindergarte...