OMI, Yasuhiro (Ph.D)
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Graduate School of Education,
University of Yamanashi
4-4-37 Takeda, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan 400-8510
phone & fax: +81-55-220-8242
e-mail: omiyas at yamanashi.ac.jp
Japanese/English
Education
Withdrawal from Doctor course, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, March 1994
MA in Psychology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, March 1992
BA in Psychology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, March 1989
Academic Experience
November 2013- Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Yamanashi,
Yamanashi, Japan
January 2001-October 2013 Associate Professor, Department of School education,
University of Yamanashi , Yamanashi, Japan
September 1998-December 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of School
education, University of Yamanashi , Yamanashi, Japan
April 1994-August 1998 Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
April 2002-March 2003 Visiting Fellow, Australian School of Environmental
Stueies, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
April 2009-September 2011 Visiting Scholar, Frances L. Hiatt School of
Psychology, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
Professional memberships/affiliations
Japanese Psychological Association
Japanese Association of Educational Psychology
Japanese Society of Social Psychology
Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology
Japanese Society of Personality Psychology(October 1997- September 2006 Board member)
Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology(April 2004- March 2008 Board
member)
Japanese Society of Environmental Education
Editorial board
Japanese Journal of Psychology (November 2013-)
Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology (January 2013- )
Qualitative Psychology Forum (April 2012-; Editor April 2013-)
Japanese Journal of Personality (October 1997- September 2006, September 2011-)
Japanese Journal
of Developmental Psychology (January 2001- January 2004)
Publications
(Books)
Omi,Y., Rodriguez,L.P., & Peralta-Gomez,M.C. Lives and relationships:
Culture in transitions between social roles. (Advances in Cultural Psychology)
Charlotte,NC: Information Age Publishing, 2014
Omi,Y. Discommunication with good intentions: Constructing context-dependent
theory of social support. Tokyo: Agora-Books, 2010 (e-book; in Japanese)
Omi,Y., & Shindo,T.(eds.) Psychological perspective for understanding us. Tokyo: Keiso-Shobo, 2004 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y., & Ito,T.(eds.) Fields of field study in psychology. Kyoto: Kitaoji-Shobo, 2001 (in Japanese)
Sato,T., Watanabe,Y., & Omi,Y. The birth of psychology studies: Fieldwork of 'psychology'. Kyoto: Kitaoji-Shobo, 2000 (in Japanese)
(Journals)
Omi,Y. Collectivistic individualism: Transcending a traditional opposition.
Culture and Psychology, 18(3), 403-416, 2012
Omi,Y. Tension between the theoretical thinking and the empirical method:
Is it an inevitable fate for psychology? Integrative Psychological and
Behavioral Science, 46, 118-127, 2012
Omi,Y., Fumino,Y., & Kachi,N. A way of children's recognition of a local nature environment. Field Culture Education, 7, 31-41, 2009 (in Japanese)
Sato,T., Watanabe,Y., & Omi,Y. Beyond dichotomy: Toward creative syntheses
on methodology of psychology. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral
Science, 41, 50-59, 2007
Omi,Y., & Sakakibara,Y. How does the school calendar influence on professional sport players?: A study in the field of baseball in U.S.A. and soccer in Italy related to its educational implication compared with it in Japan. Bulletin for the Faculty of Education & Human Sciences(Yamanashi Univ.), 7(2), 189-193, 2006 (in Japanese)
Sakakibara,Y., & Omi,Y. How has birth date influenced on professional sport players?: A study in the field of baseball and soccer in Japan related to its educational implication. Bulletin for the Faculty of Education & Human Sciences(Yamanashi Univ.), 7(1), 189-193, 2005 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y., & Komata,S. The evolution of data analyses in Japanese psychology. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 47(2), 137-143, 2005
Omi,Y. Concordance of perception of social support: Junior high school students as recipients and their mothers as providers. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 50(1), 73-80, 2002 (in Japanese with English abstract)
Fumino,Y., Omi,Y., & Kachi,N. Childrenfs attitudes to the nature in their neighborhood in Ogasawara. Annual Report of Ogasawara Research, 24, 1-12, 2001 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Referee systems as communications. Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12(1), 62-64, 2001 (in Japanese)
Omi, Y. Where are populations? Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 11(1), 55-56, 2000 (in Japanese)
Omi, Y. Children in a community: A survey for children clubs in Yamanashi. Bulletin for the Faculty of Education & Human Sciences(Yamanashi Univ.), 1(1), 294-302, 1999 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. A cross-sectional study of social support networks of children and adolescents. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 47(1), 40-48, 1999 (in Japanese with English abstract)
Omi,Y. Fieldwork, field, and psychology. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), 288, 97-108, 1998 (in Japanese)
Kato,N., Nozaki,M., Fumino,Y., & Omi,Y. A study on the lifestyles and the attitude of youth in Ogasawara (I). Annual Report of Ogasawara Research, 20, 1-11, 1997 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y., Fumino,Y., Nozaki,M., & Kato,N. A study on the lifestyles and the attitude of youth in Ogasawara (II). Annual Report of Ogasawara Research, 20, 12-22, 1997 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Clinical psychology boom, idiographic study, and psychology. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), 278, 97-108, 1997 (in Japanese)
Kato,N., & Omi,Y. Human behavior in disaster situation as seen from underground behavioral perspective: A suggestion from underground cognition study in normal situation. Comprehensive Urban studies(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), 61, 201-210, 1996 (in Japanese)
Sato,T., & Omi,Y. Challenges of/to the study of psychology. Journal of Administration and Social Sciences(FukushimaUniv.), 9(1),109-132,1996 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y., & Kawano,K. Criteria of convincedness: What do psychologists work? Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), 269, 31-45, 1996 (in Japanese)
Suzuki,Y., Hoshino,M., Ota,K., Omi,Y., Sakamoto,A., Sato,T., & Mizoguchi,H. The current status and significance of research in the history of psychology inJapan. Japanese Psychological Review, 38(3), 396-423, 1995 (in Japanese with English abstract)
Sato,T., & Omi,Y., & Watanabe,Y. Beyond the confusion of academic psychology and epop psychologyf in current Japan. Journal of Administration and Social Sciences(FukushimaUniv.), 7(1), 1-45, 1994 (in Japanese)
Kato,N., Tomoda,A., Sato,T., Nakamura,S., Omi,Y., Katayama,M, Shimokawa,A., Ota,K., Watanabe,Y., & Bi,G. A study on lifestyle and way of thinking of youth in cities(I). Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.),249, 29-44, 1994 (in Japanese)
Sato,T., Nakamura,S., Kato,N., Tomoda,A., Omi,Y., Katayama,M, Shimokawa,A., Ota,K., Watanabe,Y., & Bi,G. A study on lifestyle and way of thinking of youth in cities(II). Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.),249, 45-60, 1994 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y., & Kawano,K. A re-examination of statistical methodology in psychological research: Expectations and anxieties in numbers. Japanese Journal of Personality, 2(1), 56-67, 1994 (in Japanese with English abstract)
Omi,Y., & Kawano,K. Psychology for description of peoplefs lives: Around another methodology. Psychological Research(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), 4, 11-18, 1994 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. A descriptive study on social support in everyday interpersonal situation. Annual of Personality and Behavior Disorders Meeting, 32(1),25-36, 1993 (in Japanese with English abstract)
Omi,Y., & Inoue,H. Description of classified data(2): An application of dual scaling to social support research. Psychological Research(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), 3, 31-40, 1993 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Social support in everyday interpersonal relationships: Toward a new social support research. Masterfs Thesis,TokyoMetropolitanUniversity,Tokyo, 1992 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. A preliminary study of ggood-naturedness(ohitoyoshi)h from the phenomenal aspects: Is it an internal personality trait? Psychological Research(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), 1, 47-54, 1991 (in Japanese)
(Book chapters)
Omi,Y. Transformation of group norms and addressivity of good intention:
A field study at a Japanese after-school day-care facility. In Y.Omi, L.P. Rodriguez, & M.C.Peralta-Gomez (eds.) Lives and relationships: Culture in transitions between social roles. (Advances in Cultural Psychology) Charlotte,NC: Information Age Publishing, pp.57-77, 2014
Omi,Y. Fieldwork. In H.Shimoyama & M.Nochi(ed.) Learning practical
methods in psychology. Tokyo: Shin-yo-sha, pp.149-163, 2008 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Bottom-up styled community development: A fieldwork in hahajima-island
in Japan. In T.Sato(ed.) Bottom-up styled human relationships. Tokyo: Toshindo,
pp.92-107, 2007 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Some issues surrounding measurement. In Y.Watanabe(ed.) Methodology
of psychology. Tokyo: Asakura-shoten, pp.68-89, 2007 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. In the stream from fieldwork to qualitative research. In T.Yoshida(ed.)
New paradigm of psychological methods. Tokyo: Seishin-Shobo, pp.195-217,
2006 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. To do with feedback based on research product. In J.Ando & N.Ando(eds.) Research ethics constructed by real cases for psychologists. Kyoto: Nakanishiya-Shuppan, pp.106-107, 2005 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Fieldwork, field psychology, and field study. In Y.Omi & T.Ito(eds.)Fields of field study in psychology. Kyoto: Kitaoji-Shobo, pp.2-17, 2001 (in Japanese)
Ito,T., & Omi,Y Field study and publications. In Y.Omi & T.Ito(eds.)Fields of field study in psychology. Kyoto: Kitaoji-Shobo, pp.231-242, 2001 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Movement and culture: Various styles of the movement in Ogasawara. In Y.Yamada et al.(eds.)A catalog of field psychology. Tokyo: Kaneko-Shobo, pp.72-79, 2001 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Qualitative approaches in personality research. In K.Sugiyama, & K.Horike(eds.)Techniques of personality research. Tokyo: Fukumura-Shuppan, pp.35-43, 1999 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Social support networks in children and adolescents. In Volunteer association that memorize Dr. Kato(eds.)Social psychology and environmental cognition. Tokyo: Yachiyo-Shuppan, pp.179-188, 1997 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. History of psychological methods. In T.Sato, & H.Mizoguchi(eds.)History of Japanese psychology. Kyoto: Kitaoji-Shobo, pp.444-461, 1997 (in Japanese)
Omi,Y. Helping behavior. In T.Takuma(ed.)Psychology in encounters and relationships. Tokyo: Shin-yo-sha, pp.34-38,1992 (in Japanese)
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