Journal of psychosomatic research
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To test the hypothesis that elderly persons who feel ikigai (a sense of life worth living) have a lower risk of incident functional disability than those who do not. Recent studies have suggested that ikigai impacts on mortality. However, its impact upon disability is unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between ikigai and incident functional disability among elderly persons. ⋯ A stronger degree of ikigai is significantly associated with a lower risk of incident functional disability.
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We investigated if alexithymia, a personality construct with difficulties in emotional processing, is stable in the general population. ⋯ According to our large longitudinal study both the absolute and relative stability of alexithymia assessed with the TAS-20 are high in the adult general population.