Between Science and Self-Help: A Scoping Review of Scholarly and Popular Definitions of Ikigai
[NOT READ. Closed access with no open-access location recorded at OpenAlex; the publisher has elided the abstract at BOTH Springer and Semantic Scholar, and the Springer article page returned an empty body] Tee, E. Y. J., Tsukamoto, S., & Steger, M. F. (2026). 'Between Science and Self-Help: A Scoping Review of Scholarly and Popular Definitions of Ikigai.' Journal of Happiness Studies, 27(6). doi:10.1007/s10902-026-01080-w. Author order confirmed at api.openalex.org: Tee first, Department of Psychology, HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Tsukamoto second, Department of Psychology, Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin, Japan; Steger third, Colorado State University and the Optentia Research Programme, North-West University. CITABLE FOR ITS EXISTENCE, TITLE, VENUE AND AUTHOR ORDER ONLY. ITS FINDINGS MUST NOT BE CHARACTERISED IN ANY FORM. The title alone tells a reader that a peer-reviewed scoping review of exactly the gap between the scholarly and the popular definitions now exists, which is worth one sentence and no more.
[NOT READ. Closed access with no open-access location recorded at OpenAlex; the publisher has elided the abstract at BOTH Springer and Semantic Scholar, and the Springer article page returned an empty body] Tee, E. Y. J., Tsukamoto, S., & Steger, M. F. (2026). 'Between Science and Self-Help: A Scoping Review of Scholarly and Popular Definitions of Ikigai.' Journal of Happiness Studies, 27(6). doi:10.1007/s10902-026-01080-w. Author order confirmed at api.openalex.org: Tee first, Department of Psychology, HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Tsukamoto second, Department of Psychology, Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin, Japan; Steger third, Colorado State University and the Optentia Research Programme, North-West University. CITABLE FOR ITS EXISTENCE, TITLE, VENUE AND AUTHOR ORDER ONLY. ITS FINDINGS MUST NOT BE CHARACTERISED IN ANY FORM. The title alone tells a reader that a peer-reviewed scoping review of exactly the gap between the scholarly and the popular definitions now exists, which is worth one sentence and no more.
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Tee, E. Y. J., Tsukamoto, S., & Steger, M. F. (2026). Between Science and Self-Help: A Scoping Review of Scholarly and Popular Definitions of Ikigai. Journal of Happiness Studies, 27(6). doi:10.1007/s10902-026-01080-w