A Japanese Perspective on Crowding: How Well Have the Japanese Adjusted to High Density?

M. HommaPsychologia, 1990, vol. 33, pp. 128-137At the present time, Japan faces many problems related to crowding or high density; shortage of housing, limited space, traffic jams, and urban problems. However, a number of scholars working in different fields have suggested that the Japanese tolerate high density because they have developed coping strategies...

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Commuting Stress?

Wednesday, 4 March 2009From QoWL Helper Almost whenever we get to chat to representatives of a client organisation we can guarantee that the issues that will get the most moans and groans from everyone in the room are 'parking' or 'travelling to work'.When examined across all our data sets parking and travelling to work seem to have little effect on...

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Possible Implications Of Daily Commute And Mosquito-borne Diseases

ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2009) — University of Hawaii at Manoa assistant researcher Durrell Kapan recently published a paper in PLoS ONE highlighting how daily commuting patterns in mega-cities may be a critically overlooked factor in understanding the resurgence of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever, infecting 50-100 million people annually.Even...

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Commuting stress and noise

SourceResearch shows that a large increase in background noise at a constant, steady level is experienced as less intrusive as time passes; although prolonged exposure produces lasting elevations in blood pressure.1 If the noise is not only loud, but also intermittent, then people remain conscious of their heightened irritability even after an extended...

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Effects to mediate crowding on train's physical structure.

PO ENV 9: XXIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGYMadrid, July 17-22, 1994HOMMA, Michiko; Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.One of the urban environmental problem is various phenomena occured (or caused) by crowded congestion. In Tokyo, the problem is particularly serious in many aspects. Crowds on commuting trains in the morning and...

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How to reduce stress while commuting

Aug 20th, 2009Do you get out of your car with a queasy stomach, a headache and your blood pressure registering through the roof? If you do, that energy vulture called stress may have sent your pulse skyrocketing. In a study conducted at the University of California at Irvine, researchers found that the stress of commuting takes a major toll on health....

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More commuting news

Nine steps to dealing with commuter stressRebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondentFriday 20 April 2007The GuardianWhether gridlocked in traffic, crammed on to public transport in unbearable heat or forced to sit next to someone with poor hygiene, most of us have experienced downsides to our commute. But now a study has revealed the secrets...

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