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Psychological Consequences of Postindustrial Anomie on Self and Motivation Among Japanese Youth
Author(s) -
Norasakkunkit Vinai,
Uchida Yukiko
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2011.01727.x
Subject(s) - anomie , psychology , post industrial society , interdependence , social psychology , self construal , task (project management) , population , developmental psychology , sociology , demography , economics , social science , economy , management
Due to economic structural changes in Japan, an increasing population of youth are “Not engaged in Employment, Education, or Training” (NEET). We argue that this state of anomie is associated with a lack of motivation in conforming to interdependent norms. To illustrate this type of “deviant” motivation, we conducted a study in which high‐ and low risk Japanese students were given either success or failure feedback upon completing a challenging task. Low risk Japanese students were more likely to persist on the challenging task upon being given negative feedback compared to being given positive feedback. This motivational pattern is consistent with that of the prototypical Japanese (Heine et al.). In contrast, the opposite pattern was found with high risk Japanese students. High risk students were also lower on levels of interdependence relative to low risk students according to both explicit and implicit measures of self‐construal.