Sense of life worth living (Ikigai) and mortality in Japan: Ohsaki study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 709-715

  Sone, Oshimasa ^a   Nakaya, Naoki ^a   Ohmori, Kaori ^a   Shimazu, Taichi ^a   Higashiguchi, Mizuka ^a   Kakizaki, Masako ^a   Kikuchi, Nobutaka ^a   Kuriyama, Shinichi ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Cause specific mortality; Japanese; Sense of life worth living (ikigai)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WELLBEING; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SATISFACTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 52049085311     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31817e7e64     Document Type: Article

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