JAMES WOGAN's research while affiliated with Tokyo Institute of Technology and other places

... One of the studies implemented the TAS-26, which preceded the development of TAS-20 and is no longer commonly used in the literature for adults. Two studies implemented the AQC (Rieffe et al., 2006) and the Alexithymia Scale for Children (ASC; Fukunishi, Yoshida, & Wogan, 1998), respectively, which are two self-reported measures that were designed following the TAS-20 structure. Finally, only one study implemented the CAM measurement (Way et al., 2010), an observer-report measure to assess alexithymia in children with a uni-dimensional structure, in combination with a self-report measure (ASC; Fukunishi et al., 1998). ...

... The emotions of alexithymic individuals are relatively diffuse, poorly differentiated, and not psychically represented well (Naghavi et al., 2010). For example, in group psychotherapy settings, for several psychological problems (such as anxiety disorders and other mental disorders) alexithymia levels tend to decrease when clinical symptomatology improves (Fukunishi et al., 1997;Hemming et al., 2019). ...

... A study performed in Japan, by Horikawa et al. on patients who were not aware of diagnosis and referred to psychiatrics, indicated a higher level of anxiety, irritability and suicidal ideations (30). According to a research conducted by Hosaka et al. the occurrence of psychiatric disorders, found in patients aware of diagnosis, was not much different (42.9%) than in those who were not informed (48.3%) (31). In a study from 2010, Jackson et al. showed that, following diagnostic disclosure, patients with prostate cancer had higher motivation for finding social support resources, which both ultimately led to an increase in positive emotions (32). ...

... Alexithymia, which has recently started to be examined more intensively, draws attention as a variable that can be considered within the scope of social skills deficiency on the way to problematic internet use. It has been evaluated that alexithymia, which is reported to be associated with having problems in relationships (Besharat, 2010;Spitzer, Siebel-Jürges, Barnow, Grabe, & Freyberger, 2005) and low social support (Fukunishi, Berger, Wogan, & Kuboki, 1999;Tsai et al., 2009), can be understood together with interpersonal problems within the scope of a problematic emotion regulation system (Vanheule, Vandenbergen, Verhaeghe, & Desmet, 2010). It has been stated that individuals with high levels of alexithymia prefer online socialization by avoiding face-toface communication; they can regulate their emotions better due to their increased control since they can control their profiles, the time they enter or leave the internet (Kandri, Bonotis, Floros, & Zaropoulou, 2014). ...