>>49895728>"That wasnt made for male NEETS">Tamaki Saito was a newly qualified psychiatrist when, in the early 1990s, he was struck by the number of parents who sought his help with children who had quit school and hidden themselves away for months and sometimes years at a time. These young people were often from middle-class families, they were almost always male, and the average age for their withdrawal was 15.>Males were more likely to become hikikomori (p < .01 in Model 1 and Model 2, p < .001 in Model 3).>By remaining within the assumed 'definition' of hikikomori,investigation will allow an understanding of the mindset of those imposing the classification as well as provide a concrete means in which to question the validity of the claims surrounding the phenomenon.
When the hikikomori problem was first widely publicized, demographics of hikikomori victims suggested
it to be a youth based 'illness' which also appears to primarily afflict young males, with no mention of
females at all. Several media resources (Arita 2001, Ashby 2002, Tolbert 2002.) were forwarding
psychiatrist Tamaki Saito's theoretical estimates that between 500,000 to over 1,000,000 Japanese male
youths aged fourteen-to-twenty years were suffering from the hikikomori condition as evidenced by their
dropping out of active participation in society and sequestering themselves into the social safety of
isolation in their rooms (Saito 2002).
>The hikikomori is considered a uniquely Japanese phenomenon. The hikikomori is typically a male (80% are male), teenaged to 30 years old, who has quit school, has no technical skills, and is unemployed, living in his room in his parents' house, never coming out, taking meals left at his door by his parents, passing the day reading, websurfing, viewing television, idling.??? Tamaki Saito, who coined "hikikomori," quite literally made it to describe male NEETs. And while there are female hikikomori, to equate the two is literal delusion.
