Saudades de ser nihonjin: Japanese-Brazilian identity and mental health in literature and media

2020 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-011950
Author(s):  
Yuki Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Japanese Brazilians ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Brazilian Identity

Brazil is currently home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan. In Brazil today, Japanese-Brazilians are considered to be successful members of Brazilian society. This was not always the case, however, and Japanese immigrants to Brazil endured much hardship to attain their current level of prestige. This essay explores this community’s trajectory towards the formation of the Japanese-Brazilian identity and the issues of mental health that arise in this immigrant community. Through the analysis of Japanese-Brazilian novels, TV shows, film and public health studies, I seek to disentangle the themes of gender and modernisation, and how these themes concurrently grapple with Japanese-Brazilian mental health issues. These fictional narratives provide a lens into the experience of the Japanese-Brazilian community that is unavailable in traditional medical studies about their mental health.

scholarly journals Are “they” out to get me? A social identity model of paranoia

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 984-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine H. Greenaway ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
William Bingley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Identity Model

This research tests a social identity model of paranoia, building on work showing that identification with social groups is associated with less paranoid thinking. Studies 1 ( N = 800) and 2 ( N = 779) supported this model, showing that national group identification is associated with lower paranoia. Study 3 ( N = 784) added to the literature by probing the mechanisms underlying these relationships, and found that it is through enhanced control and trust that identification is associated with better mental health. Studies 4 ( N = 390) and 5 ( N = 904) manipulated identification to provide evidence of causality. A minimeta analysis revealed a robust association between national identification and paranoia across the studies, although no association emerged between political identification and paranoia. The results point to the role that lack of social connections can play in underpinning paranoid thinking, and suggest that, as with other mental health issues, the problems caused by paranoia may have a social cure.

scholarly journals Emotions at work and mental health: emerging directions

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1233
Author(s):  
Janhavi Devdutt ◽  
Seema Mehrotra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Multiple Health

The present paper aims to present a brief overview of research on emotions at the workplace, and its relevance for mental health. Studies have been carried out linking emotions at work to various indices of well-being at work as well as to multiple health outcomes. The scope and utility of research focusing on day-to-day affective experiences is highlighted through studies using affective events theory as a guiding framework. There is a relative dearth of studies on emotion regulation processes at work, specifically on interpersonal regulation of emotions in work life as well as on regulation of positive emotions. Despite a boom in research on the magnitude of mental health issues at workplace and its wide-ranging implications, there is insufficient integration of research on emotions and mental health at work, with these two related strands of research evolving rather independently of each other. The overview points out areas of future research as well as implications for practice.

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