Sense of Life Worth Living (Ikigai) and Mortality in Japan: Ohsaki Study

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

Kind: Journal Article
Date: August 2008
Publisher: Psychosomatic Medicine
Retrieved: Jun 20, 2017
Via: DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31817e7e64

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Ikigai and Mortality

Objective: To investigate the association between the sense of “life worth living (ikigai)” and the cause specific mortality risk. The psychological factors play important roles in morbidity and mortality risks. However, the association between the negative psychological factors and the risk of mortality is…

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