Furthermore, the syndrome is not solely confined to Japan but is gradually spreading to mostdigitally connected countriesglobally, including the USA, China, India, Brazil, and other European countries. Why People Become Hikikomori A 2019studypublished in the journalFrontiers of Psychologysugges...
Objective Hikikomori, from the Japanese words 'hiku' (to pull) and 'komoru' (to withdraw), is a clinical condition in which a subject locks himself/herself into his/her own house for more than 6 months. This condition is becoming relevant in Japan and other Asian countries, with new ...
While the condition was first described in Japan, cases have since been reported in countries as far apart as Oman, India, the United States and Brazil. No one knows how many hikikomori exist (the term refers both to the condition and to the people with it), butsurveyssuggest that 1.79 p...
social interactions. The development of hikikomori relies on the relationship between the individual’s characteristics, needs and the requests of the society. It is essential to understand how the hikikomori condition develops in other countries than Japan, where the social-cultural background is ...
people make a lot of effort. Thanks to their big effort, our level of life has largely improved and we are one of the developed countries. Moreover, as today is called a competitive society, we have a mutual influence on each other, so we have much expectation in the future still more...
Hikikomori, or social withdrawal youth has become one of the most pressing social issues in Japan and this phenomenon is increasing in other countries as well. While there is a movement to pathologize this phenomenon as a new psychological disorder, these case reports provide a fresh perspective ...
This creates a situation in which people are likely to become lonely. In other words, people who had hitherto lived in traditional family groupings and communities have increasingly come to spend more time as lone individuals with many actually living alone in the city. Some people living in ...
The hikikomori phenomenon in Japan Nakanishi Wendy Jones L & C 8, 1-14, 2010 WJ Nakanishi - 《L & C》 被引量: 0发表: 2010年 The Japanese hikikomori phenomenon: acute social withdrawal among young people Although rare in the west, in Japan and in some other advanced countries on the As...
The phenomenon first emerged in Asia, and is particularlywell-documented in Japan– but similar stories are surfacing in other parts of the world including the United States, Spain and France. Researchers at Yale University have suggested that the rise of the internet and decline of face-to-face...
Despite the refusal to consider Hikikomori as a culture-bound syndrome on account of the presence of similar cases in many other countries, its classification as a cultural idiom can integrate its dual cultural and psychopathological particularities. The role of inhibition, and the confrontation with...