Published papers

不安状態での認知的パフォーマンスの低下の理由を説明する認知過程として自己関連処理に着目し、不安状態と、不安と類似した認知的パフォーマンスへの影響を有するノイズ呈示下での課題成績の比較、検討を行った。視力および聴力の正常な大学生、大学院生60例を対象とした。ノイズ呈示はランダムに行った。第1の要因は「ストレス負荷」、第2の要因は「方向づけ課題の種類」とし、自己関連づけ課題、他者関連づけ課題、意味課題の3水準を設けた。第1の要因は被験者間変数、第2の要因は被験者内変数であった。不安条件では不安を喚起させ、ノイズ条件では80dBのホワイトノイズを量示した。不安条件では他の条件に比べて自己関連づけ課題の再生率が低く、不安は自己関連づけ課題の再生成績にのみ影響を及ぼしている可能性が示唆された。

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relation between anxiety and self-referent processing. Undergraduate and graduate students (N -- 60) were divided into 3 groups: anxiety group, noise group, and control group. All participants performed 3 types of rating tasks (self-referent task, other-referent task, and semantic task) on neutral personality words. After the rating tasks, the participants performed a memory task. The results were that the anxiety group's rate of recall of words from the self-rating task was lower than that in the other 2 groups. These results suggest that anxiety had an effect on the performance of the self-referent rating task.

This article gives an overview of the recently introduced concept of work engagement: a positive, fulfilling, affective motivational state of work-related well-being. I first define work engagement as a state including vigor, dedication, and absorption, and then refer to its antecedents and consequences. Work engagement is a unique concept that is best predicted by job resources (e.g., autonomy, supervisory coaching, performance feedback) and personal resources (e.g., optimism, self-efficacy, self-esteem) and is predictive of psychological/physical health, proactive organizational behavior, and job performance. Then, I mentioned strategies how to achieve really healthy workers and workplaces. The paper closes with an account of strategic use of stress check-up system to achieve healthy workplaces.