2012 Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 1-9
This study examined the influence that the several cognition and emotion felt at “kandoh” gave in mental health and psychological well-being. “Kandoh” is positive and very large emotional experience. In English, “Kandoh” is moving, touching or impressive. The cognition (sympathy and respect), emotion (joy, surprise, sadness) are felt at “kandoh”. It was expected that “kandoh” influenced mental health and psychological well-being, because the emotion is related with mental health and psychological well-being.
As a result of the covariance structure analysis, mental health and psychological well-being were related with “kandoh”. However, the emotional influence was shown not to be large, and it was shown that sympathy of the cognition had influence. This result suggested that in the study of “kandoh” need to study with the perspective which is different from the conventional emotion study. In addition, the result suggested that mental health promoted “kandoh”. And it was shown “kandoh” raised psychological well-being.