Relationship between trusting behaviors and psychometrics associated with social network and depression among young generation: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT: Maladaptive social interaction and its related psychopathology have been highlighted in psychiatry especially among younger generations. In Japan, novel expressive forms of psychiatric phenomena such as "modern-type depression" and "hikikomori" (a syndrome of severe social withdrawal lasting for at least six months) have been reported especially among young people. Economic games such as the trust game have been utilized to evaluate real-world interpersonal relationships as a novel candidate for psychiatric evaluations. To investigate the relationship between trusting behaviors and various psychometric scales, we conducted a trust game experiment with eighty-one Japanese university students as a pilot study. Participants made a risky financial decision about whether to trust each of 40 pho

SUBMITTER: Watabe M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4383339 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature