Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taijin kyofusho

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was Keep. Scimitar 19:20, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Taijin kyofusho

Taijin kyofusho is only the Japanese translation of anthropophobia/sociophobia, not a culture-bound syndrome. It doesn't merit an independent namespace. Hermeneus 12:37, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, seems to be distinct from anthropophobia/sociophobia. Failing that, merge with one of them. Kappa 12:49, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Distinctively different from those. -- AlexR 13:15, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but it's an astoundingly unlikely search, so it could comfortably be merged back to sociophobia. Geogre 14:17, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Not all articles are found via searches - this one is linked from a couple of pages. And it is not the same as sociophobia, there is a very considerable difference between the two - you could say that two distinctively different phobias just happen to have the same symptom. Hence it cannot and should not be merged into sociophobia. -- AlexR
• There are 482 google hits [1] for the title in English so it's not that unlikely to be searched for. Kappa 20:43, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep I did not search for this article, but found it through a link. What's more, I seem to remember my prof. talking about this order in my psych class, and saying how it was an excellent example of a culture-specific disorder. It isn't sociophobia, it isn' similar to sociophobia, therefore it shouldn't be merged with sociophobia. - ZelmersZoetrop
• Keep It is not clear that "taijin kyofusho" (TKS) is a culture bound syndrome [2]. Nor is it clear that TKS is merely a translation of DSM-IV social anxiety disorder [SAD], although it is sometimes used as such. There is evidence to distinguish TKS from SAD and there is a scientific literature focusing specifically on TKS. For example, students scoring high on a factor associated with "offensive-type TKS" (a category previously validated [3]) scored low on the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale-Japanese version, suggesting that they could be diagnosed as having TKS but not SAD [4]. Myron 18:38, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - For the reasons above. But I recommend that it be flagged with an improvement tag. --Erielhonan 05:15, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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