Yuzaburou Uchida - Yuzaburou Uchida

...German psychiatrist Kraepelin recognized that there is a certain law between the amount of work and the elapsed time when a person continues a simple task, and he considered the factors that contribute to the fluctuation of the amount of work per unit time using the method of continuous addition, and published a paper titled "Work Curve" in 1902. In Japan, Narazaki Asataro and others adopted this method, and in 1924, Uchida Yuzaburo proposed a 30-minute method (15 minutes of work, 5 minutes of rest, 10 minutes of work). He first examined people with mental disorders and later the general public, and pursued the relationship between personality types and the curve, and the relationship with mental disorders, and developed it as an aptitude test (Uchida-Kraepelin Mental Work Test). Specifically, numbers are printed horizontally, and adjacent numbers are added in order, and the first digit of the sum is written in one after another, and the curve is judged based on the amount of work, agitation, and the effect of resting for each line. ...

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…ドイツの精神医学者クレペリンは，人間が単純な作業を継続した場合には，作業量と経過時間の間には一定の法則があることを認め，連続加算法による作業量と単位時間当りの変動に寄与する因子に考察を加え，1902年《作業曲線》という論文を発表した。日本では楢崎浅太郎らがこれを取り入れ，24年には内田勇三郎が30分法(15分施行，5分休憩，10分施行)を提唱し，初め精神障害者に，後に一般人について吟味し，性格類型と曲線の関係，精神障害との関係を追求し，適性検査として開発した(内田=クレペリン精神作業検査)。具体的には，横に数字が印刷されていて，その隣りあった数を順次加え，その和の1位の数字を次々に記入し，各行の作業量，動揺，休憩効果などから曲線を判定する。…

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