Christopher L. Coe   Gayle D. Love   Mayumi Karasawa   Norito Kawakami   Shinobu Kitayama   Hazel R. Markus   Russell P. Tracy   Carol D. Ryff   
BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY 25(3) 494-502 2011年3月 [査読有り]
The pleiotropic cytokine, interleukin-6 (IL-6), has emerged as a key factor in the biology of aging and the physiology of inflammation. Yet much of what we know about the normal functioning of IL-6 has been generated primarily from research on Eur...
Mayumi Karasawa   Katherine B. Curhan   Hazel Rose Markus   Shinobu S. Kitayama   Gayle Dienberg Love   Barry T. Radler   Carol D. Ryff   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGING & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 73(1) 73-98 2011年 [査読有り]
This study investigated age differences in multiple aspects of psychological well-being among midlife and older adults in Japan (N = 482) and the United States (N = 3,032) to test the hypothesis that older Japanese adults would rate aspects of the...
Shinobu Kitayama   Mayumi Karasawa   Katherine B. Curhan   Carol D. Ryff   Hazel Rose Markus   
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 1 163 2010年 [査読有り]
A cross-cultural survey was used to examine two hypotheses designed to link culture to wellbeing and health. The first hypothesis states that people are motivated toward prevalent cultural mandates of either independence (personal control) in the ...
Shinobu Kitayama   Hyekyung Park   A. Timur Sevincer   Mayumi Karasawa   Ayse K. Uskul   
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 97(2) 236-255 2009年8月 [査読有り]
Informed by a new theoretical framework that assigns a key role to cultural tasks (culturally prescribed means to achieve cultural mandates such as independence and interdependence) in mediating the mutual influences between culture and psychologi...