Ikigai

Kamiya, M. (1966). Ikigai-ni-tsuite. Tokyo: Misuzu Shyobou.

Tanno K, Sakata K, Ohsawa M, Onoda T, Itai K, Yaegashi Y, Tamakoshi A; JACC Study Group. Associations of ikigai as a positive psychological factor with all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality among middle-aged and elderly Japanese people: findings from the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study. J Psychosom Res. 2009 ;67(1):67-75. doi: 10.1016/j. jpsychores.2008.10.018.

Kawano, S. John W. Traphagan, The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan. J Cross Cult Gerontol 20, 335–336 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-006-9008-0

Tsuzishita S, Wakui T. The Effect of High and Low Life Purpose on Ikigai (a Meaning for Life) among Community-Dwelling Older People-A Cross-Sectional Study. Geriatrics (Basel). 2021;6(3):73. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics6030073

Okuzono, SS., Shiba, K., Kim ES., Shirai ,K., Kondo, N., Fujiwara ,T., Kondo, K., Lomas, T., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Kawachi, I, VanderWeele, TJ. (2022). Ikigai and subsequent health and wellbeing among Japanese older adults: Longitudinal outcome-wide analysis. Lancet Reg Health West Pac,21:100391. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.10039

Amamoto-Mitani N, Ishigaki K, Kuniyoshi M, Kawahara-Maekawa N, Hasegawa K, Hayashi K, Sugishita C. [Impact of the positive appraisal of care on quality of life, purpose in life, and will to continue care among Japanese family caregivers of older adults: analysis by kinship type]. Nihon Koshu Eisei Zasshi. 2002;49(7):660-71

Seko, K., Hirano, M. (2021) Predictors and Importance of Social Aspects in Ikigai among Older Women. International Journal Environment Research Public Health,18,18(16),87-18. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18168718

Miyazaki J, Shirai K, Kimura T, Ikehara S, Tamakoshi A, Iso H. Purpose in life (Ikigai) and employment status in relation to cardiovascular mortality: the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study. BMJ Open. 2022 ;12(10): e059725. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059725.

Sumiyama A, Shirai K, Imano H, Eguchi E, Muraki I, Tamakoshi A, Iso H; for JACC Study Group. Positive psychological factors and the risk of pneumonia-associated mortality: Japan Collaborative Cohort Study. J Psychosom Res. 2022:60:110971. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110971

Wilkes J, Garip G, Kotera Y, Fido D. Can Ikigai Predict Anxiety, Depression, and Well-being? Int J Ment Health Addict. 2022; 1:1-13. doi: 10.1007/s11469-022-00764-7.

Randall N, Joshi S, Kamino W, Hsu LJ, Agnihotri A, Li G, Williamson D, Tsui K, Šabanović S. Finding ikigai: How robots can support meaning in later life. Front Robot AI.;9:1011327. doi: 10.3389/ frobt.2022.1011327

Buettner D, Skemp S. Blue Zones: Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2016; 10(5):318-321. doi: 10.1177/1559827616637066

Hasegawa A, Fujiwara Y, Hoshi T, Shinkai S. [Regional differences in ikigai (reason(s) for living) in elderly people--relationship between ikigai and family structure, physiological situation and functional capacity]. Nihon Ronen Igakkai zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics. 2003;40(4):390-396. DOI: 10.3143/geriatrics.40.39

Fido D, Kotera Y, Asano K. English translation and validation of the Ikigai-9 in a UK Sample. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 2019; 1:8. doi: 10.1007/s11469-019-00150-w.