“The findings provide further empirical support to Li and Wong’s framework that suggests individuals with more severe social withdrawal suffer from more psychological difficulties and Kato and colleague’s hypothesis that “some common psychopathological mechanisms may exist in the act of “shutting in”
Teo, Alan R., Does hikikomori (severe social withdrawal) exist among young people in urban areas of China?. Asian Journal of Psychiatry December 2017 Volume 30, Pages 175–176 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2017.10.026
Nicolas Tajan 
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