- 著者
- Masataka NAKAYAMA Chihiro HATANAKA Yuka SUZUKI Yasushi SUGIHARA
- 出版者
- Psychologia Editorial Office
- 雑誌
- PSYCHOLOGIA (ISSN:00332852)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.2022-B030, (Released:2023-10-02)
- 参考文献数
- 47
- 被引用文献数
- 1
Text-based online counseling services are rapidly spreading, especially among younger generations. However, previous research on text-based online counseling is limited to young users in Western countries. Given its potential utility for broader populations, description of the public image of the service is necessary to reach broader populations. The current study aimed to describe public images of text-based online counseling in Japan, focusing on generational differences. An online survey asked Japanese participants (N = 614) from a wide age range (M = 41.77; SD = 11.98, range = 20 to 76) to freely describe their image and impressions of “SNS counseling,” the Japanese term for text-based counseling. We quantified each description with the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) algorithm, a deep learning technology for natural language processing. We explored the components of images of text-based online counseling that linearly correlate with age. The main result indicated that the image of text-based online counseling among younger participants clustered around lightness, with both positive and negative connotations. Younger participants regarded text-based online counseling as easy to access but less serious. The image of text-based online counseling among older participants indicated that they were anxious about not being able to see the “face” of the counselor, and were concerned about security and privacy.
- 著者
- Masataka NAKAYAMA Yukiko UCHIDA
- 出版者
- Psychologia Society
- 雑誌
- PSYCHOLOGIA (ISSN:00332852)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.2020-B004, (Released:2020-10-28)
- 参考文献数
- 51
- 被引用文献数
- 13
Awe is theorized as an emotion appraised by perceived vastness and need for accommodation. This theoretical framework was developed with a review of spatially and temporally distributed literature mostly in the American and European cultural context, and is assumed to be culturally universal. However, awe as described by Japanese literature, was not explicitly included in the original theorization. We tested whether this framework generalized to the Japanese context by analyzing how Japanese awe-related words (e.g., “畏敬/ikei”) are used in Japanese text. A topic model was used to extract topics in contexts as an index of meaning. Results show that (1) the meaning of awe was statistically dissociable from similar but distinct meanings of fear and respect, and (2) the dissociating topics included transcendent entities such as god, spirits/ghosts, and powerful beings. Japanese meaning of awe includes vastness (i.e., transcendence) that goes beyond typical respect (i.e., power distance) requiring an accommodation of one’s mental framework.