Shinya Kubota's research while affiliated with University of Occupational and Environmental Health and other places
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Publications (16)
To develop tools offering definite orientation for managers and employees to support their work improvement through occupational mental health. This research was a part of the Mental Health Improvement & Reinforcement Study (MIR study), conducted from October 2004 to March 2006.
We developed a trial version named the Kaizen Check List (KCL) by refe...
Mental health of workers in Japan has become one of the most serious health problems in the workplace. To tackle this problem, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set guidelines for promoting mental health of workers in 2000, in which every worker was recommended to learn autogenic training (AT) from the standpoint of “self-care”. Before the...
The solution-focused approach (SFA) developed by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer at the Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee, USA is classified as brief psychotherapy. We believe that SFA can give an occupational healthcare staff useful tools that will positively influence their relationships with workers, because it focuses on workers' streng...
The present study was conducted to clarify the direct effects of active listening (AL) training given to middle managers in a local government. Altogether, 345 middle managers participated in 13 AL training sessions over two years. We developed the Inventive Experiential Learning (IEL) method, and used it as the central training method in this stud...
The present study investigated relationships among self-management skills, communication with superiors, and the mental health of employees in a Japanese worksite. The subjects were manufacturing workers in a medium-sized company in Kyushu. In 1999, we mailed a self-administrated questionnaire which included questions on age, gender, job rank, comm...
We investigated relationships among self-efficacy, self-management skills, communication with superiors and mental health of employees at a Japanese workplace. The subjects were 426 employees in a medium-sized manufacturing company in Kyushu. In 1999, with agreement of the company, we mailed a self-administrated questionnaire which included questio...
We investigated the relationship between burnout and communication skill training among Japanese hospital nurses to improve the mental health of human service workers. The subjects were forty-five registered nurses referred to a self-expression skill intervention program by their section superiors, with each superior choosing from two to five nurse...
The present study investigated the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS) preparatory to study the relationship between self-expression skills and mental health status of employees at a Japanese worksite. Assertiveness is one of self-expression skills and defined as standing up for one's own righ...
Listener education has usually been conducted as primary prevention in occupational medicine. We report on the present state of listener education in which the training focuses on active listening (AL). AL means the way of listening to a person in the person-centered attitude (PCA) that is based on Rogers' three conditions, i.e. empathy, unconditio...
Interpersonal relationships are widely recognized as a major source of job stress, and a mental health training program that incorporates active listening (AL) has attracted much attention in Japan. However, few methods are available to assess the attitude of AL easily. To develop a new questionnaire that can measure workers' person-centered attitu...
The present study aimed to determine the psychophysiological changes induced in subjects by standard autogenic training (AT). Physiological measurements were taken under strict experimental conditions.
Thirty-one healthy students were divided randomly into two groups: the AT group and the control group. In the first session, the physiological varia...
The effects of mental health training for corporate administrators, using Active Listening (Experiential Listening) as a major method was investigated. Sixty subjects took part in the mental health training program which consisted of 2 two-day workshops (a total of 30 hr). The workshop program consisted of a lecture on stress, techniques of relaxat...
This article discusses the advent of humanistic psychology and some of its training in Japanese corporations. The social context of such a movement is presented. Research data indicate that workers who perceive their supervisors as having strong person-centered attitudes exhibit less fatigue, depression, and anxiety than those who do not. The data...
Many workers and health professionals consider that mental health at the workplace is very important in order to maintain workers' health. To improve their mental health, evaluating stress at the workplace and planning adequate stress management are necessary. This report deals with these two areas. 1. A survey on occupational stress in local gover...
Although the "Total Health Promotion Plan (THP)" drawn up by the Labor Ministry includes a self-administered stress checklist (THP-SC) as a health measurement, THP-SC has not been utilized in the way that it had been planned. Hence, we studied the usefulness of this list by comparing it with the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). We made a questio...
Citations
... Further, job satisfaction was inversely associated with a lower GHQ-12 score, suggesting that higher job satisfaction was related to fewer self-reported mental health challenges. This has also been demonstrated by previous studies among populations such as factory workers in the south of Thailand [26], teachers in Marand, Iran [10], school teachers in Japan [11], secondary school teachers in southeast Nigeria [12], and local civil servants in Japan [27]. ...
... More so, Barish, (2001) discovered that in some cases these fatalities are caused by other individuals in the workplace as opposed to inanimate working objects and conditions. Although Weiss, (1999) and Hills et al., (2013) studied "workplace condition" within the context of teaching and medicine, it is considered as an influential component in the business environment as well (Mishima, Goto, Kubota & Nagata, 2006;Cottini, Kato & Westergaard-Nielsen, 2011) ...
... The higher the score, the stronger the loneliness. The Active Listening Attitude Scale (ALAS) developed by Mishima et al. was used to assess mothers' active listening attitude [21]. The higher the score, the better the listening attitude or skill. ...
... Generally, the facilitator is someone who knows the method, discussing its application with their partner beforehand. Focusing has been successfully applied in areas outside therapy, such as qualitative research [94], non-representational geography [4], business [43], movement-based performance [2] and more recently, through Focusing as a method for design [57,73]. Focusing for design research is conducted as either one-to-one sessions or public workshops, where participants are invited to describe their experiences through notes and body maps [72,73]. ...
... Rautalinko and Lisper's (2004) reflective listening training, which is reflecting back in your own words what you heard and sensed, showed disappointing results, while Caspersz and Sasinska's (2015) intervention showed limited support for improving the listening of business students. In another study, active listening training produced favorable results for the 60 corporate administrators participating (Kibota, Mishima, Ikem, & Nagata, 1997). listening circles technique (i.e., use of an object to signal the time to talk) proved effective in increasing self-awareness, reducing social anxiety, and lessening extreme attitudes. ...
... The psychological scales created in previous studies have been used for quantifying decent work by measuring job satisfaction [2,3], perceived support [4], job stress and its responses such as burnout [5][6][7][8][9][10][11], interpersonal relationships [12], and quality of work life [13], as exemplified in Table 1. Table 1. ...
... Importantly, research has shown that HRV can be increased acutely using autogenic training (Mishima, Kubota, & Nagata, 1999;Miu, Heilman, & Miclea, 2009), a psychophysiological relaxation technique that requires verbal self-suggestions invoking specific sensations in the body (Kanji, 1997). Relevant to the current research, autogenic training has also M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 7 been found to increase both genital sexual arousal and subjective sexual arousal in sexually functional women (Stanton & Meston, 2016) and subjective arousal in women with sexual arousal problems (Stanton, Hixon, Nichols, & Meston, 2018). ...
... Communication items examined the acquisition status of skills such as "check-backs (re-confirming)" and "call-outs (communicating in a loud voice)." Meanwhile, assertiveness was intended to measure communication ability, rather than skills, and items were created with reference to the Japanese version of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule [12] and other related literature. "Leadership" consisted of seven items, "situation monitoring" of six items, "mutual support" of five items, "communication" of four items, and "assertiveness" of 10 items for a total of 32 items across the five areas. ...
... Stimulating workplace communication between employees enhances mental health [1][2][3], discretion [4], and the well-being [5] of employees and has been associated with a reduction in depression and anxiety [6,7]. Further, poor workplace communication has been found to increase conflict in relationships between workers [8,9], whereas effective communication between workers can foster team spirit [10]. ...
... ,11,23,26,27 . Eklof et al. (2004) 10 y Eklof y Hagberg (2006)11 demuestran las ventajas de vehicular la comunicación sobre riesgos a través de los supervisores.Shimizu et al (2003aShimizu et al ( , 2003b ...
