Profiles

Professor OMORI Mika

Affiliations :

  • Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
  • Division of Department of Integrated Human Sciences
  • Psychology and Linguistics Course
  • Department of Psychology

“A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bone.” Health psychology explores the mutual relationship between mental and physical health. My research in this field currently focuses on the impact of thin-ideal internalization on body dissatisfaction and dieting behaviors, health-related behaviors, and emotional regulation. Methodologically, I have primarily used questionnaire surveys and employed multivariate analysis to process the data. In a more recent project, I utilize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to capture health behaviors in situ.

  • Research, History
  • Books, papers, etc.
  • Personal History
    I was born and raised in Japan and graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a doctoral degree in psychology. I am currently a cross-appointed faculty member at Tohoku University while being a professor in health psychology and the director of the Institute of Education and Human Development at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. In addition to being affiliated with Indiana University as a graduate student, I lived in the US as an undergraduate exchange student at Vanderbilt University and as an Abe Fellow at Indiana University and Yale University, and as a Fulbright scholar at Northeastern University.
    Degree
    Doctor of Philosophy
    Field
    Health Psychology
    Research Subject
    Psychosocial attributes related to health behaviors, risk perception and health communication
    Keywords
    body image; health-related behaviors; psychosocial influences; ecological momentary assessment; risk perception
    Affiliation
    American Psychological Association; Academy of Eating Disorders; Japanese Psychological Association; Japanese Association of Health Psychology
  • Books
    Omori, M. (2018) Chapter 12: Psychology of meat eating. (In A. Nobayashi Eds.) Research on Meat Eating, Heibonsha.
    Omori, M. (2020) Chapter 1 Social function and application of emotion. Theory and Practice of Social and Emotional Learning. Noma Institute of Educational Research.
    Academic Papers
    Rodgers, R. F., Lombardo, C., Cerolini, S., Franko, D. L., Omori, M., Fuller- Tyszkiewicz, M., Linardon, J., Courtet, P., & Guillaume, S. (2020). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Eating Disorder Risk and Symptoms. International Journal of Eating Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23318

    Swami, V. et al. (2020). The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey (BSSS): Breast size dissatisfaction and its antecedents and outcomes in women from 40 nations. Body Image 32, 199-217.

    Takamura, A., Yamazaki, Y., & Omori, M. (2019). Developmental changes in fat talk to avoid peer rejection in Japanese girls and young women. Health Psychology Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/2055102919854170

    Yoshitake, N., Omori, M., Sugawara, M., Akishinonomiya, K., Shimada, S. (2019). Do health beliefs, personality traits, and interpersonal concerns predict TB prevention behavior among Japanese adults? PLoS One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211728.

    Omori, M., Yamazaki, Y., Aizawa, N., de Zoysa, P. (2016). Thin-ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction in Sri Lankan adolescents. Journal of Health Psychology, 22, 1830-1840.

    Awards
    2002 Motoaki Memorial Award, Japanese Association of Health Psychology
    2017 Conference Presentation Award, Japanese Psychological Association