Cross-cultural psychology, gender roles and sexism, violence against women, attitudes toward mental health services
Education
Psychology Resident, BYU Counseling & Career Center, 2002 - 2004
PhD, University of Utah, 2002
Publications
Niwako Yamawaki, Brian Tschanz, David Feike. Defensive pessimism, self-esteem instability, and goal strivings.. Cognition and Emotion.
Niwako Yamawaki, BRIAN TSCHANZ. Cross-cultural study: The difference in rape perceptions between Japanese and American. Sex Roles.
Niwako Yamawaki. Rape-Perception and Function of Ambivalent Sexism and Gender Traditionallity. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Niwako Yamawaki., Darby, R., & Queiroz, A.. The moderating role of ambivalent sexism: The influence of power status on perception of rape victim and rapist. Journal of Social Psychology.
Niwako Yamawaki & Mika Omori. The impact of parental bonding in childhood on Japanese college students general mental health: The mediation role of self-esteem and life satisfaction. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Niwako Yamawaki. Differences between Japanese and American college students in giving advice about help seeking to rape victims. Journal of Social Psychology.
Niwako Yamawaki. Cross-cultural study: The moderating and mediating role of face concern and self-construals in help-seeking advice for rape victims. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Thoman, D. V., White, P. H., Niwako, Yamawaki., & Koishi, H. Variations of gender-math stereotype content affect women's vulnerability to stereotype threat. Sex Roles
Stillman, F. T., Niwako Yamawaki, ., & Ridge, R. (2009). Comparing predictors of sexual harassment proclivity between Japanese and U.S. men. Journal of Men and Masculinity.
White, S. E., & Niwako Yamawaki . (2009) . The mediating influence of homophobia on perceptions of male rape victims. Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Niwako Yamawaki ., Ostenson, J., & Brown., R. Cross-cultural study: The difference in domestic violence perceptions between Japanese and American college students. Violence against Women
Wilkerson, J. A., Niwako Yamawaki, & *Downs, S. D. Effects of husbands’ migration on mental health and gender role ideology of rural Mexican women, Health Care for Women International.
Niwako Yamawaki. The role of rape myth acceptance and belief in a just world on victim blame attribution: A study in Japan, Psychologia
Niwako Yamawaki.
The Effects of Self-Construal and Masculinity vs. Femininity: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of American and Japanese Participants’ Attitudes Toward Mental Health Services. Journal of Mental Health Counseling.
Awards
Kennedy Center Open Grant David M. Kennedy Center 2005
Family Studies Center Research Grant Family Studies Center 2005
Individual Research Grant College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences 2005
Mentoring Environment Grant Office of Research and Creative Activities 2003
Research Grant Social Science Research Council 2003
Research Grant The Japan Foundation 2005
Licensed Psychologist Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing 2004
College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences Individual Research Grant College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences 2006
Womens Research Institute Research Grant Womens Research Institute 2006
Womens Research Institute Research Grant Women's Research Institute 2007
Family Studies Center Research Grant Family Studies Center 2007
