Translation guide
The concept of regression covers returning to a previous state, statistical modeling, and psychological defense mechanisms. This guide helps learners express each meaning naturally in Japanese.
Expressing a decline, backsliding, or reversion in quality, condition, or progress.
General term for regression, retreat, or moving backward. Used for economic, social, or personal decline.
経済の後退が続いている。
The economic regression continues.
治療の後退が見られた。
A regression in treatment was observed.
Often used for psychological regression or developmental backsliding. Can also mean moving backward physically.
ストレスで幼児退行を起こした。
Stress caused a regression to infantile behavior.
Implies going against the natural flow or reversing progress. Often used in phrases like 時代に逆行する (go against the times).
その政策は時代に逆行している。
That policy is a regression against the times.
Literally 'going back the way one came'. Used for regression in progress or returning to a previous state, often with a negative nuance.
交渉が後戻りした。
The negotiations regressed.
Specifically means degeneration or atrophy, often biological or evolutionary regression. Not for general decline.
使わない筋肉は退化する。
Unused muscles regress.
Referring to regression analysis or the statistical method for modeling relationships between variables.
The standard term for regression analysis in statistics.
回帰分析を使ってデータを解析した。
We analyzed the data using regression analysis.
Short for regression in statistical contexts. Often used in compounds like 線形回帰 (linear regression).
Describing a return to an earlier stage of development in response to stress, as a defense mechanism.
The primary term for psychological regression. Often used in clinical or psychoanalytic contexts.
退行は防衛機制の一つだ。
Regression is one of the defense mechanisms.
後退 is the most general term for regression or moving backward, used in economics, health, etc. 退行 often implies psychological or developmental regression. 逆行 suggests going against a natural direction or trend, like 'regressing against progress'.
Build a linear regression model.
Specifically refers to regression to infantile behavior.
彼女は幼児退行を示した。
She showed infantile regression.