抱井尚子　研究業績

Kakai Hisako

My area of interest is culture's influence on human cognition, emotion and motivation. I have academic expertise in cross-cultural psychology and have been applying this knowledge mainly to health communication research involving cancer patients with ethnically diverse backgrounds. Goals of my research include examining mechanisms in which culture shapes our world views and developing culturally appropriate and sensitive, innovative approaches to psychosocial and behavioral issues affecting intercultural communication in various social domains.

Bio	Aoyama Gakuin University (B.A.) University of San Diego (M.Ed.) University of Hawaii, Manoa (Ph.D.) Formerly, Research Associate at Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
Membership in Professional Associations	International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Pacific-Asia Communication Association (1st Vice President) International Association for Health Communication Sciences (Board Member) Japan Association for Multicultural Relations (Board Member) Japan Psycho-Oncology Society
Courses Taught	Undergraduate: Intercultural Communication, English Graduate: Research Method, Multicultural Studies
Specialized Fields	Cross-Cultural Psychology, Research Methods
Other Fields of Interests	Intercultural Communication, Health Communication
Research Interests	Examining social, cultural, psychological, and behavioral issues in health communication between cancer patients and healthcare workers with particular interests in medical decision-making, medical informed consent, complementary and alternative medicine use, and integrative medicine. Examining culture's influence on the development of critical thinking and developing ways to foster critical thinking .

Research Performance
Type	Title	Journal/Publisher	Date
Publications
Conference Presentation	Searching for a Universal Model of Critical Thinking Dispositions: A U.S. – Japan Comparison Using a Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis	International Congresses of International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Spetses, Greece.	2006.07
Conference Presentation	The Use of Mixed-Method Approach in Examining Culture's Influence on the Development of Dispositions towards Critical Thinking	Qualitative Inquiry 2006, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	2006.05
Translation	Critical Thinking About Research: Psychology and Related Fields by Julan Meltzoff	Jun Nakazawa (Ed.), Kitaoji-Shobo [In Japanese]	2005.09
Conference Presentation	Are complementary and alternative medicine users non-critical thinkers? Exploring the possibility of post-logistic critical thinking in the area of medical decision-making.	Joint Convention of Pacific and Asia Communication Association, World Communication Association, and International Health Communication Sciences.	2005.08
Film Review	Maren Grainger-Monsen, Julia Haslett, Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare, Fanlight Productions, Boston, MA, 2003, USA.	International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29 (1), 123-126.	2005
Article	A Mode for Exercising Post-Logistic Critical Thinking: An Examination of Medical Decision-Making about Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use.	Aoyama Kokusai Seikei Ronshu, 66, 70-110. [In Japanese]	2005
Symposium	Searching for a point of contact between critical thinking and society: Using a case example of complementary and alternative medicine use in the United States.	Symposium on Critical Thinking. The 68th Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association.	2004.09
Article	A prospect of critical thinking education in Japanese higher education of the 21st century: Exploring a possibility of collaborative critical thinking.	Aoyama Kokusai Seikei Ronshu, 63, 129-155. [In Japanese]	2004.05
Textbook Chapter	Health Communication	Wakari -yasui communication. Masao Okano (Ed.) , Sanwa Shoseki. [in Japanese]	2004.04
Symposium	The development of critical thinking dispositions among college students in multicultural Hawaii	Symposium on Cultural Psychology.Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.	2004.01
Refereed Article	The Ethics of Medical Decision-making with Japanese-American Elders in Hawaii: Signing Informed Consent Documents without Understanding Them.	Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 10 (1), 113-130.	2004
Refereed Article	Ethnic differences in choices of health information by cancer patients using complementary and alternative medicine: An exploratory study with correspondence analysis	Social Science and MedicineVol.56, pp.851-862, Elsevier Science	2003
Refereed Article	Religious and spiritual resources, CAM, and conventional treatment in the lives of cancer patients	Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 9(3), pp. 64-71, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.	2003
Conference Presentation	Culture's influence on health information-seeking behavior among cancer patients	International Conference on Communication in Health(warwick,UK), International Conference on Commnication in Health	2002.09
Conference Presentation	Senses of self and the development of critical thinking dispositions	Self-concept research: Driving international research agendas(Sydney,Australia), Self Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Sedney, Australia	2002.08
Conference Presentation	I didn't really talk about it with my doctor: Reasons behind the limited disclosure of complementary and alternative medicine use among cancer survivors	Japan Psycho-Oncology Society. The 15th Convention, Tokyo	2002.05
Refereed Article	Communication between doctors and cancer patients about alternative medicine use: Exploring patients' perspectives	Psycho-OncologyVol.11, pp.212-220, John Wiley ＆ Sons.,Inc.	2002
Refereed Article	A double standard in bioethical reasoning for disclosure of advanced cancer diagnosis in Japan	Health CommunicationVol.14(3), pp.361-376, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.	2002
Refereed Article	Determinants of the degree of complementary and alternative medicine use among patients with cancer	Journal of Alternative and Complementary MedicineVol.8(5), pp.661-671, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. U.S.A	2002
Refereed Article	Why some cancer patients choose complementary and alternative medicine instead of conventional teratment	Journal of Family Practice vol.50,no.12, American Medical Association	2001.12
Article	The uniqueness of Hawaii's Japanese-American patients in onchology practice	the 1st annual conference, Int'l Association for Health Communication Sciences	2001.11
Dissertation	The effect of independent and interdependent self-construals on the development of critical thinking dispositions: A quantitative and qualitative study	UMI Dissertation Services	2001.08
Refereed Article	Perceived cancer causes: Use of complementary and alternative therapy	Cancer Practice vol.9,no.4, pp.183-190, American Cancer Society	2001.06
Conference Presentation	Beliefs about the causes of cancer among cancer patients using complementary and alternative medicine	2001 annual conference, Int'l Conference on Complementary, Alternative, Integrative Medicine Research	2001.05
Conference Presentation	The Decision to choose complementary and alternative medicine over conventional treatment	2001 annual conference, Int'l Conference on Complementary, Alternative, Integrative Medicine Research	2001.05
Conference Presentation	Exploring culture's effects on critical thinking dispositions: Using the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory	2001 annual conference, American Educational Research Association	2001.04
Conference Presentation	Using SEM technique to investigate the effects of self-construals on critical thinking dispositions	2001 annual conference, Hawaii Educational Research Association	2001.02
Conference Presentation	Cultural confusion among the Japanese about the standard of bioethics: Sociocultural approach to the analysis of attitudes toward advanced cancer disclosure	2000 annual conference, New York Conference on Asian studies	2000.10
Refereed Article	The use of cross-cultural studies and experiences as a way of developing critical thinking dispositions among college students	Journal of General Education vol.49, no.2, pp.110-131, Pennsylvania State University	2000.08
Refereed Article	The use of cross-cultural studies and experiences as a way of developing critical thinking dispositions among college students	Journal of General Education vol.49, no.2, pp.110-131, Pennsylvania State University	2000.08
Workshop	Improving skills and knowledge in cross-cultural communication	Japan Pre-Departure Orientation, University of Hawaii Int'l Program	2000.08
Refereed Article	Ethnic differences in alternative medicine use among cancer patients	Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine vol.6, no.6, pp.531-538, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.	2000.06
Conference Presentation	Is critical thinking a universal concept? : An exploratory study using the concept of self-construals	Cultural Diversity and European Integration, Int'l Assoc. for Cross-Cultural Psychology	1999.06
Refereed Article	Cultural barriers in oncology: Issues in obtaining medical informed consent from Japanese-American elders in Hawaii	Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology vol.13, pp.265-279, Kluwer Academic Publishers	1998.12
Conference Presentation	The use of cross-cultural studies as a way of developing critical thinking dispositions among college students	1998 annual conference, American Educational Research Association	1998.04