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Akihito Shimazu

Akihito Shimazu

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Psychology
Japan
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
52
Citations
9532
World Ranking
5033
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Akihito Shimazu is affiliated with Keio University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in health professions and psychology, particularly focusing on workplace health and well-being. Their work covers a range of topics related to occupational health, job satisfaction, and organizational behavior.

Their research spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Health Professions
  • Psychology

Within these broad areas, Shimazu's studies delve into various subfields, such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Sociology and Political Science

The scientist's main research topics focus on workplace-related issues, encompassing:

  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Shimazu has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Norito Kawakami
  • Kotaro Imamura
  • Akiomi Inoue
  • Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Akizumi Tsutsumi

Publication venues where Shimazu has been regularly featured include:

  • Journal of Occupational Health
  • Industrial Health
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Shimazu include:

  • "Workaholism, Work Engagement and Child Well-Being: A Test of the Spillover-Crossover Model," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Measurement Invariance of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) Across Seven Cross-National Representative Samples," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Validation of the Japanese Version of the Burnout Assessment Tool," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "What Kind of Intervention Is Effective for Improving Subjective Well-Being Among Workers? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Occupational stress and the risk of turnover: a large prospective cohort study of employees in Japan," 2020, BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • An ultra-short measure for work engagement: The UWES-3 validation across five countries.

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Akihito Shimazu;Jari Hakanen;Jari Hakanen;Marisa Salanova

  • Being Driven to Work Excessively Hard: The Evaluation of a Two-Factor Measure of Workaholism in The Netherlands and Japan

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Akihito Shimazu;Toon W. Taris

  • Work Engagement in Japan: Validation of the Japanese Version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale

    A. Shimazu;W.B. Schaufeli;S. Kosugi;A. Suzuki

  • Workaholism vs. work engagement: the two different predictors of future well-being and performance.

    Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Kimika Kamiyama;Norito Kawakami

  • Is workaholism good or bad for employee well-being? The distinctiveness of workaholism and work engagement among Japanese employees.

    Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Do Workaholism and Work Engagement Predict Employee Well-being and Performance in Opposite Directions?

    Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Kazumi Kubota;Norito Kawakami

  • How Does Workaholism Affect Worker Health and Performance? The Mediating Role of Coping

    Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Toon W. Taris

  • Work engagement versus workaholism : a test of the spillover-crossover model

    Arnold B. Bakker;Akihito Shimazu;E. Demerouti;Kyoko Shimada

  • Workaholism and well-being among Japanese dual-earner couples: A spillover-crossover perspective

    Akihito Shimazu;Evangelia Demerouti;Arnold B. Bakker;Kyoko Shimada

  • A Longitudinal Test of the Demand–Control Model Using Specific Job Demands and Specific Job Control

    Jan de Jonge;Natasja van Vegchel;Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar Schaufeli

  • Association Between Workaholism and Sleep Problems Among Hospital Nurses

    Kazumi Kubota;Akihito Shimazu;Norito Kawakami;Masaya Takahashi

  • Organizational justice, psychological distress, and work engagement in Japanese workers

    Akiomi Inoue;Norito Kawakami;Masao Ishizaki;Akihito Shimazu

  • Why Japanese workers show low work engagement: An item response theory analysis of the Utrecht Work Engagement scale

    Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar B Schaufeli;Daisuke Miyanaka;Noboru Iwata

  • Does distraction facilitate problem-focused coping with job stress? A 1 year longitudinal study.

    Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Effects of an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) program in manga format on improving subthreshold depressive symptoms among healthy workers: A randomized controlled trial

    Kotaro Imamura;Norito Kawakami;Toshi A. Furukawa;Yutaka Matsuyama

  • Development of a Short Questionnaire to Measure an Extended Set of Job Demands, Job Resources, and Positive Health Outcomes: The New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire

    Akiomi Inoue;Norito Kawakami;Teruichi Shimomitsu;Akizumi Tsutsumi

  • Validation of the Japanese Version of the Recovery Experience Questionnaire

    Akihito Shimazu;Sabine Sonnentag;Kazumi Kubota;Norito Kawakami

  • Socioeconomic determinants of bullying in the workplace: a national representative sample in Japan

    Kanami Tsuno;Norito Kawakami;Akizumi Tsutsumi;Akihito Shimazu

  • Measurement invariance of the burnout assessment tool (BAT) across seven cross-national representative samples

    Leon T de Beer;Wilmar B Schaufeli;Wilmar B Schaufeli;Hans De Witte;Hans De Witte;Jari J Hakanen

  • Work engagement: an emerging concept in occupational health psychology.

    Akihito Shimazu;Wilmar B Schaufeli

  • Effect of web-based assertion training for stress management of Japanese nurses.

    Manaho Yamagishi;Toshio Kobayashi;Takemasa Kobayashi;Makiko Nagami

  • "EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET:" WORK ENGAGEMENT AND WORKAHOLISM ACROSS EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURES

    Q. Hu;Wilmar Schaufeli;Toon Taris;Dave Hessen

  • Job Control and Social Support as Coping Resources in Job Satisfaction

    Akihito Shimazu;Miyuki Shimazu;Tsutomu Odahara

  • Reciprocal relations between effort-reward imbalance at work and adverse health : a three-wave panel survey

    Akihito Shimazu;J Jan de Jonge

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnold B. Bakker
Arnold B. Bakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Evangelia Demerouti
Evangelia Demerouti Eindhoven University of Technology
Maureen F. Dollard
Maureen F. Dollard University of South Australia
Toon W. Taris
Toon W. Taris Utrecht University
Hans De Witte
Hans De Witte KU Leuven
Jari J. Hakanen
Jari J. Hakanen Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Marisa Salanova
Marisa Salanova Jaume I University
Jan de Jonge
Jan de Jonge Eindhoven University of Technology
Ståle Pallesen
Ståle Pallesen University of Bergen

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