Commodari, E., La Rosa, V. L., Carnemolla, G., & Parisi, J. (2021). The Psychological Impact of the Lockdown on Italian University Students during the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic: Psychological Experiences, Health Risk Perceptions, Distance Learning, and Future Perspectives. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 9, 1-19.

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: The Implicit Self-Esteem of Japanese Junior High School Students under the COVID-19 Pandemic

  AUTHORS: Akitoshi Uchida, Kazuo Mori

  KEYWORDS: COVID-19, Implicit Self-Esteem, Junior High School Students, Paper-and-Pencil IAT, Pre- and Post-Test Design with Similar Cohorts

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.10 No.12, November 1, 2022

  ABSTRACT: We aimed to examine the psychological effects of the COVID-19 turmoil of junior high school students. We assessed 142 Japanese junior high school students (74 boys, 68 girls) who experienced the confusion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and compared them with those of 164 students (81 boys, 83 girls) before the turmoil in 2018. We administered the paper-and-pencil Implicit Association Test (Mori, Uchida, & Imada, 2008) to assess implicit self-esteem with the target word “myself” to both cohorts. We classified them into positive, neutral, and negative self-esteem groups based on their implicit association scores. Contrary to the fear of adverse effects, the results showed that students’ implicit self-esteem scores maintained the same level even under the COVID-19 turmoil in 2020. Thus, the present study showed a silver lining of Japanese junior high school students whose self-esteem were maintained under the unordinary school life.