Minoru Ueda
Biographic Data
| ID | 116147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minoru Ueda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minoru |
| FAMILY NAME | Ueda |
| SIGNATURE | UEDA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6552-8090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Is Mobility Linked to Higher or Lower Loneliness? The Importance of Freedom and Instability
How is interpersonal and intergroup mobility related to loneliness? Disentangling different facets of mobility may be crucial to understanding the link. We propose that the disruption of life and long-term relationships inherent in a mobile society (i.e., instability facet) is linked to higher loneliness, whereas the opportunities and freedom existing in a mobile society (i.e., freedom facet) are associated with lower loneliness. We developed a c…
Psychological Well‐Being and Distress Among College Students
The collegiate mental health literature reveals a single‐spectrum perspective on mental health, with studies investigating either pathology or wellness. Following a dual‐continua model, this study sought to examine psychological distress and well‐being concurrently, based on a sample of 5670 students recruited from a mid‐sized private university in the United States. Further, informed by a dynamic‐process resilience framework, we tested the media…
Understanding Factors Associated with 911 and 988 Use in Mental Health Crises
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline was launched in July 2022 as an alternative to 911 for mental health crises. However, little is known about the factors influencing decisions to use 911 or 988 among individuals most likely to benefit from 988, including those with suicidal ideation. This study analyzes individual characteristics associated with the likelihood of calling 911 during a mental health crisis and examines awareness of, willingness t…
Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan
Although numerous studies have investigated the effect of green space on mental health, as yet, little is known about the association between green space and suicide. To address this deficit, we conducted the first Japan-wide study of the relationship between green space and suicide mortality. Results from spatial analyses of municipality-level panel data for the 1975-2014 period that included 886,440 suicide deaths with a fixed-effect estimator …
Government spending, recession, and suicide
Government's reaction to economic crises can either exacerbate or mitigate the negative impact of the economic recession on people's mental health and suicide rates
Covariance in diurnal patterns of suicide-related expressions on Twitter and recorded suicide deaths
Social media data is increasingly used to gain insights into trends in mental health, but prior studies aimed at confirming a link between online expression of suicidal ideation on social media and actual suicide deaths have been inconclusive. Using comprehensive six-year data sets of Twitter posts and suicide deaths in Japan, we examine the diurnal relationship between the proportional incidence of a suicide-related keyword, "kietai" ("I want to…
Tracking the Werther Effect on social media
Rises in suicide rates following media reports of the deaths by suicide of public figures are a well-documented phenomenon. However, it remains unclear why, or by what exact mechanism, celebrity suicides act to increase suicidal risk in the wider public due to the lack of data showing how the public understands and reacts to the suicide of well-known figures. This study used a supervised machine learning approach to investigate the emotional cont…
Tweeting celebrity suicides
A substantial amount of evidence indicates that news coverage of suicide deaths by celebrities is followed by an increase in suicide rates, suggesting a copycat behavior. However, the underlying process by which celebrity status and media coverage leads to increases in subsequent suicides is still unclear. This study collected over 1 million individual messages ("tweets") posted on Twitter that were related to 26 prominent figures in Japan who di…
School and seasonality in youth suicide
BACKGROUND: Seasonality in youth suicide has been speculated to be associated with the school calendar, as it tends to increase at the beginning of the academic year or after a long break, but robust empirical evidence remains scarce. METHODS: We examined the nationwide death records in the Vital Statistics of Japan to investigate the seasonal patterns of suicide among youth. Our data set included 108 968 suicides by individuals who died at 6-26 …
Suicides and accidents on birthdays
Dynastic Politicians
Dynastic politicians, defined as those whose family members have also served in the same position in the past, occupy a sizable portion of offices in many parts of the world. We develop a model of how dynastic politicians with inherited political advantages affect electoral outcomes and policy choices. Our model predicts that, as compared with non-dynastic legislators, dynastic legislators bring more distributions to the district, enjoy higher el…
Natural disasters and suicide
Government Partisanship and Human Well-Being
The Effects of Uncontested Elections on Legislator Performance
Political competition lies at the core of representative democracy. Yet, uncompetitive elections and uncontested races are widespread in the United States, particularly at the state level. In this article, we analyze the consequences of uncontested elections on lawmaking activity. Our primary hypothesis is that legislators who run unopposed are less active lawmakers than those who were selected through competitive elections. Studying roll‐call vo…
Political Knowledge and the Use of Candidate Race as a Voting Cue
Do White voters use candidate race as a voting cue in biracial electoral contests? We argue that the answer to this question depends on the level of political knowledge and information that voters have rather than on their attitudes toward minorities. Our analyses of precinct- and individual-level data show that White voters who are likely to be informed about candidates vote less often for the Democratic party when the candidate is Black, wherea…
The effect of national suicide prevention programs on suicide rates in 21 OECD nations
Do Multimember Districts Lead to Free‐Riding
We studied the effects of districting on intergovernmental aid by state governments to local governments in the United States. We found that metropolitan areas receive relatively more aid when represented in the state legislature by an at‐large delegation than when divided into single‐member districts. This suggests that the free‐riding that may occur with at‐large representation is more than counterbalanced by other factors. The estimated effect…
Effect of ‘Bakumondo-to’, a Chinese-Japanese herbal medicine, on cultured and dispersed salivary gland cells
Dynastic Politicians
Dynastic politicians, defined as those whose family members have also served in the same position in the past, occupy a sizable portion of offices in many parts of the world. We develop a model of how dynastic politicians with inherited political advantages affect electoral outcomes and policy choices. Our model predicts that, as compared with non-dynastic legislators, dynastic legislators bring more distributions to the district, enjoy higher el…
The Effects of Uncontested Elections on Legislator Performance
Political competition lies at the core of representative democracy. Yet, uncompetitive elections and uncontested races are widespread in the United States, particularly at the state level. In this article, we analyze the consequences of uncontested elections on lawmaking activity. Our primary hypothesis is that legislators who run unopposed are less active lawmakers than those who were selected through competitive elections. Studying roll‐call vo…
Political Knowledge and the Use of Candidate Race as a Voting Cue
Do White voters use candidate race as a voting cue in biracial electoral contests? We argue that the answer to this question depends on the level of political knowledge and information that voters have rather than on their attitudes toward minorities. Our analyses of precinct- and individual-level data show that White voters who are likely to be informed about candidates vote less often for the Democratic party when the candidate is Black, wherea…
Do Multimember Districts Lead to Free‐Riding
We studied the effects of districting on intergovernmental aid by state governments to local governments in the United States. We found that metropolitan areas receive relatively more aid when represented in the state legislature by an at‐large delegation than when divided into single‐member districts. This suggests that the free‐riding that may occur with at‐large representation is more than counterbalanced by other factors. The estimated effect…
Tracking the Werther Effect on social media
Rises in suicide rates following media reports of the deaths by suicide of public figures are a well-documented phenomenon. However, it remains unclear why, or by what exact mechanism, celebrity suicides act to increase suicidal risk in the wider public due to the lack of data showing how the public understands and reacts to the suicide of well-known figures. This study used a supervised machine learning approach to investigate the emotional cont…
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan
Although numerous studies have investigated the effect of green space on mental health, as yet, little is known about the association between green space and suicide. To address this deficit, we conducted the first Japan-wide study of the relationship between green space and suicide mortality. Results from spatial analyses of municipality-level panel data for the 1975-2014 period that included 886,440 suicide deaths with a fixed-effect estimator …
Tweeting celebrity suicides
A substantial amount of evidence indicates that news coverage of suicide deaths by celebrities is followed by an increase in suicide rates, suggesting a copycat behavior. However, the underlying process by which celebrity status and media coverage leads to increases in subsequent suicides is still unclear. This study collected over 1 million individual messages ("tweets") posted on Twitter that were related to 26 prominent figures in Japan who di…
Natural disasters and suicide
The effect of national suicide prevention programs on suicide rates in 21 OECD nations
School and seasonality in youth suicide
BACKGROUND: Seasonality in youth suicide has been speculated to be associated with the school calendar, as it tends to increase at the beginning of the academic year or after a long break, but robust empirical evidence remains scarce. METHODS: We examined the nationwide death records in the Vital Statistics of Japan to investigate the seasonal patterns of suicide among youth. Our data set included 108 968 suicides by individuals who died at 6-26 …
Government Partisanship and Human Well-Being
Covariance in diurnal patterns of suicide-related expressions on Twitter and recorded suicide deaths
Social media data is increasingly used to gain insights into trends in mental health, but prior studies aimed at confirming a link between online expression of suicidal ideation on social media and actual suicide deaths have been inconclusive. Using comprehensive six-year data sets of Twitter posts and suicide deaths in Japan, we examine the diurnal relationship between the proportional incidence of a suicide-related keyword, "kietai" ("I want to…
Effect of ‘Bakumondo-to’, a Chinese-Japanese herbal medicine, on cultured and dispersed salivary gland cells
Do Multimember Districts Lead to Free‐Riding
We studied the effects of districting on intergovernmental aid by state governments to local governments in the United States. We found that metropolitan areas receive relatively more aid when represented in the state legislature by an at‐large delegation than when divided into single‐member districts. This suggests that the free‐riding that may occur with at‐large representation is more than counterbalanced by other factors. The estimated effect…
The Effects of Uncontested Elections on Legislator Performance
Political competition lies at the core of representative democracy. Yet, uncompetitive elections and uncontested races are widespread in the United States, particularly at the state level. In this article, we analyze the consequences of uncontested elections on lawmaking activity. Our primary hypothesis is that legislators who run unopposed are less active lawmakers than those who were selected through competitive elections. Studying roll‐call vo…
Political Knowledge and the Use of Candidate Race as a Voting Cue
Do White voters use candidate race as a voting cue in biracial electoral contests? We argue that the answer to this question depends on the level of political knowledge and information that voters have rather than on their attitudes toward minorities. Our analyses of precinct- and individual-level data show that White voters who are likely to be informed about candidates vote less often for the Democratic party when the candidate is Black, wherea…
The effect of national suicide prevention programs on suicide rates in 21 OECD nations
Natural disasters and suicide
Government Partisanship and Human Well-Being
Dynastic Politicians
Dynastic politicians, defined as those whose family members have also served in the same position in the past, occupy a sizable portion of offices in many parts of the world. We develop a model of how dynastic politicians with inherited political advantages affect electoral outcomes and policy choices. Our model predicts that, as compared with non-dynastic legislators, dynastic legislators bring more distributions to the district, enjoy higher el…
School and seasonality in youth suicide
BACKGROUND: Seasonality in youth suicide has been speculated to be associated with the school calendar, as it tends to increase at the beginning of the academic year or after a long break, but robust empirical evidence remains scarce. METHODS: We examined the nationwide death records in the Vital Statistics of Japan to investigate the seasonal patterns of suicide among youth. Our data set included 108 968 suicides by individuals who died at 6-26 …
Suicides and accidents on birthdays
Tweeting celebrity suicides
A substantial amount of evidence indicates that news coverage of suicide deaths by celebrities is followed by an increase in suicide rates, suggesting a copycat behavior. However, the underlying process by which celebrity status and media coverage leads to increases in subsequent suicides is still unclear. This study collected over 1 million individual messages ("tweets") posted on Twitter that were related to 26 prominent figures in Japan who di…
Tracking the Werther Effect on social media
Rises in suicide rates following media reports of the deaths by suicide of public figures are a well-documented phenomenon. However, it remains unclear why, or by what exact mechanism, celebrity suicides act to increase suicidal risk in the wider public due to the lack of data showing how the public understands and reacts to the suicide of well-known figures. This study used a supervised machine learning approach to investigate the emotional cont…
Government spending, recession, and suicide
Government's reaction to economic crises can either exacerbate or mitigate the negative impact of the economic recession on people's mental health and suicide rates
Covariance in diurnal patterns of suicide-related expressions on Twitter and recorded suicide deaths
Social media data is increasingly used to gain insights into trends in mental health, but prior studies aimed at confirming a link between online expression of suicidal ideation on social media and actual suicide deaths have been inconclusive. Using comprehensive six-year data sets of Twitter posts and suicide deaths in Japan, we examine the diurnal relationship between the proportional incidence of a suicide-related keyword, "kietai" ("I want to…
Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan
Although numerous studies have investigated the effect of green space on mental health, as yet, little is known about the association between green space and suicide. To address this deficit, we conducted the first Japan-wide study of the relationship between green space and suicide mortality. Results from spatial analyses of municipality-level panel data for the 1975-2014 period that included 886,440 suicide deaths with a fixed-effect estimator …
Psychological Well‐Being and Distress Among College Students
The collegiate mental health literature reveals a single‐spectrum perspective on mental health, with studies investigating either pathology or wellness. Following a dual‐continua model, this study sought to examine psychological distress and well‐being concurrently, based on a sample of 5670 students recruited from a mid‐sized private university in the United States. Further, informed by a dynamic‐process resilience framework, we tested the media…
Understanding Factors Associated with 911 and 988 Use in Mental Health Crises
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline was launched in July 2022 as an alternative to 911 for mental health crises. However, little is known about the factors influencing decisions to use 911 or 988 among individuals most likely to benefit from 988, including those with suicidal ideation. This study analyzes individual characteristics associated with the likelihood of calling 911 during a mental health crisis and examines awareness of, willingness t…
Is Mobility Linked to Higher or Lower Loneliness? The Importance of Freedom and Instability
How is interpersonal and intergroup mobility related to loneliness? Disentangling different facets of mobility may be crucial to understanding the link. We propose that the disruption of life and long-term relationships inherent in a mobile society (i.e., instability facet) is linked to higher loneliness, whereas the opportunities and freedom existing in a mobile society (i.e., freedom facet) are associated with lower loneliness. We developed a c…
Medicine (12 works) · Suicide prevention (11 works) · Poison control (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Injury prevention (7 works)