Mieko Yoshihama
Biographic Data
| ID | 174573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mieko Yoshihama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mieko |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoshihama |
| SIGNATURE | YOSHIHAMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6256-2071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Unfair Treatment and Depressive Symptoms Among U.S. Asians
A Community Organizational Approach to Improving the Social Determinants of Refugee Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Relationships among intimate partner violence, unfair treatment, depressive symptoms, and family support
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and unfair treatment can negatively affect the health and well-being of many women, especially women of color. Few studies have investigated the mental health impact of both forms of victimization together. Unlike most research on Asian Indian women, which has used aggregated samples of women of various Asian Indian or South Asian descent, this study focused on a specific group of Asian Indians. Data were collected…
Organisational legitimacy and refugee-led community organisations
Organisational forms are defined by the cultural and the scientific – a dual dimensionality of organisational legitimacy. This study examines organisational legitimacy of refugee-led community organisations (RCOs), as they form or emerge out of refugee camps and places of displacement and then transition to fit into taken-for-granted cultural-scientific organisational models in places of resettlement. Analyses draw from participant observation, i…
Cultural–legal brokering and gender
Increased academic attention to the intersections of refugee studies and gender studies has focused on the lives and trajectories of refugee women. In this study, we examine resettlement institutions involved with refugee women, drawing upon critical scholarship on “brokerage.” Brokers reproduce and impose the powers of the state, but also negotiate with and resist the state. We draw from interviews with resettlement workers and refugee leaders i…
Substance Use Among Asian American Adults in 2016–2020
Objectives. To compare substance use among Asian American adults in 2020, when anti-Asian violence increased, with substance use among the same group during the previous 4 years and compare this with that of non-Hispanic Whites. Methods. Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2016 to 2020, we investigated changes in substance use among Asian Americans compared with non-Hispanic Whites before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. …
Everyday Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms among Gujarati Adults
Discrimination against Asians in the USA and its impact on their mental health are urgent public health concerns. Most research on discrimination against Asians has used aggregated Asian group samples. Focusing on Gujaratis, a specific subgroup of Asian Indians, the second-largest Asian group in the USA, this study examined the relationships between everyday discrimination and psychological distress and how they vary by gender. Data were collecte…
Participatory Action Research in Times of Coronavirus Disease 2019
Adapting to online modalities drew on four priorities: ease of access, time sensitivity, capacity building, and co-production of data. Methodological insights may be applicable to participatory action research with RI-CBOs and other CBOs in the face of challenges similar to those prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Piloting participatory action research
Our findings offer a three-level (individual, structural, and community) framework of education pathways for resettled refugees. A critical analysis of how factors at multiple levels interact and produce unique challenges and possibilities furthers the field of refugee studies and also informs more holistic, sustainable policies and programs for refugee education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Refugee-Led Organizations' Crisis Response during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Scholarship on disaster response and recovery has focused on local communities as crucial in developing and implementing timely, effective, and sustainable supports. Drawing from interviews with refugee leaders conducted during the spring and summer of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines crisis response activities of refugee-led grassroots groups, specifically within Bhutanese and Congolese refugee communities in a mid…
Peerformance
This study examined the gender beliefs and norms expressed by South Asian community members when intervening as bystanders in Peerformance, a publicly performed scene depicting a husband’s controlling behavior toward his wife enacted by a peer-led theater group. Using a grounded theory approach, inductive coding and reiterative visual analysis of videotaped bystander interactions revealed that, while most community members confronted the husband,…
From Exposure to Violence between Mother and Her Intimate Partner to Suicidality Experienced by Urban Adolescents in Chicago’s Southside
Although the relationship between exposure to intimate partner violence and youths' psychological and other wellbeing has been widely studied, there is limited research about how youths' exposure to violence between mother and her intimate partner may be related to youth psychological wellbeing. The study used a sample of urban adolescents in Chicago Southbound to examine whether youths' exposure to verbal conflict between mother and her intimate…
Sex Differences in the Pathways from Exposure to Parental Fighting to Risky Sexual Activities Among Adolescents in Urban Neighborhoods
Exposure to mother’s verbal conflict with her intimate partner and aggressive behavior of urban adolescents
The current study applied the General Strain Theory (GST), Social Disorganization Theory (SDT), and Social Control Theory (SCT) to examine the association between exposure to verbal conflict between a mother and her intimate partner, and aggressive behavior of urban adolescents. The sample included 518 urban adolescents (96% Black), aged 14 to 17 years. Descriptive statistics, structural equation modeling (SEM), and moderation analyses were condu…
Visualizing drivers of gender health disparities
Gender (A)Symmetry in Correlates of Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence
This study examined, using structural equation modeling (SEM), gender differences and similarities in correlates of the perpetration of emotional aggression against intimate partners among one of the largest groups of Asian Indians in the United States, Gujaratis. Although most of the correlates of emotional aggression (e.g., patriarchal attitudes, spousal disagreement, and alcohol use) were similar for men and women, higher support for gendered …
Violence Against Women and Children Following the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster
This study reports on 82 unduplicated cases of violence against women and children after the Great East Japan Disaster of March 2011. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from informants who worked with the disaster-affected populations. In addition to domestic violence, reported cases involved sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact, including quid pro quo assault perpetrated by nonintimates. Perpetrators often exploited a sen…
Participatory Investigation of the Great East Japan Disaster
Disasters exacerbate predisaster inequities and intensify the vulnerability of women and other marginalized and disempowered groups. Thus, disaster policies and responses should incorporate the experiences and perspectives of those who are marginalized. The authors sought to conduct a participatory research project to help develop more inclusive, gender-informed disaster responses and policies in Japan. In June 2011, following three months of pla…
Using Interactive Theater to Create Socioculturally Relevant Community‐Based Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
This article describes the use of interactive theater, audience response assessment, and peer educators to create community‐generated approaches for bystander interventions (i.e., actions taken by people who become aware of controlling, abusive and violent behavior of others) to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and to foster change in community norms. We include a case example of an ongoing university–community partnership, which mobilizes…
Enculturation and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence and Gender Roles in an Asian Indian Population
This study examined the relationships among enculturation, attitudes supporting intimate partner violence (IPV‐supporting attitudes), and gender role attitudes among one of the largest Asian Indian population groups in the US. Data were collected via computer‐assisted telephone interviews with a random sample of Gujarati men and women aged 18–64 in Metropolitan Detroit. Using structural equation modeling, we modeled the effects of three component…
Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program in an Asian Immigrant Community
To fill an existing gap in research and practice on intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities, the authors developed an IPV prevention program, called the Shanti Project, in an Asian Indian community in the Midwest. Building on the notion of shanti (harmony/peace), a cherished value and strength of the community, we created a communications campaign that combined social marketing and community-based participatory approaches. Recogn…
The Life History Calendar Method and Multilevel Modeling
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent and often recurrent in women's lives. To better understand the changing risk of IPV over the life course, which could guide more effective policies and program responses, methodological innovations are needed. Life History Calendar methods enhance respondents' recall of the timing of specific types of IPV experienced over the life course. Multilevel modeling provides a way to analyze individual and col…
Violence against women is strongly associated with suicide attempts
Social, Economic, and Political Processes That Create Built Environment Inequities
Growing evidence suggests that the built environment features found in many high-poverty urban areas contribute to negative health outcomes. Both built environment hazards and negative health outcomes disproportionately affect poor people of color. We used community-based participatory research and Photovoice in inner-city Atlanta to elicit African Americans' perspectives on their health priorities. The built environment emerged as a critical fac…
Wife battering in South Korea
Violence against women is strongly associated with suicide attempts
Community Participation Reconsidered
This paper describes the process of planning, developing, and implementing a community-based project with Hmong women in a large Midwestern city. Combining action and research to forge relationships, identify common goals and garner resources, the Hmong Women's Project applied principles of both feminist and participatory action research (PAR). In light of the successes and challenges of this ongoing project, we critically evaluate the oft-encour…
Does the Life History Calendar Method Facilitate the Recall of Intimate Partner Violence? Comparison of Two Methods of Data Collection
Respondents' recall ability may compromise the validity of their report of lifetime experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study compared two interview methods: a commonly used structured interview method and the Life History Calendar (LHC) method, which combines a visual calendar with a semistructured interview schedule to help respondents gain better access to long-term memory. Comparison of two studies conducted with samples drawn…
Age Adjustment and Recall Bias in the Analysis of Domestic Violence Data
Long-term Trends in Depression among Women Separated from Abusive Partners
This study tested a cumulative adversity hypothesis, where differences in postseparation stressors among battered women were expected to lead to a widening gap in levels of women's depression over time. Ninety-four women separated from their abusive partners were interviewed six times over a 2-year period. Consistent with the hypothesis, inequalities grew over time. Women who were exposed to the greatest amount of violence and secondary stressors…
Breaking the Web of Abuse and Silence
This article presents the findings of a focus group research project with battered women in Tokyo, Japan. Participants' narratives of their experience with their partners' violence suggest a web of entrapment, from which women saw little possibility of escape. The partners' physical violence, interference with the women's social participation, isolation from supportive networks, and degradation and debasement entrapped participants. The victim-bl…
Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program in an Asian Immigrant Community
To fill an existing gap in research and practice on intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities, the authors developed an IPV prevention program, called the Shanti Project, in an Asian Indian community in the Midwest. Building on the notion of shanti (harmony/peace), a cherished value and strength of the community, we created a communications campaign that combined social marketing and community-based participatory approaches. Recogn…
Training Children's Services Workers in Domestic Violence Assessment and Interventrion
Domestic Violence Against Women of Japanese Descent in Los Angeles
Using a more inclusive, culturally responsive measure, this population-based study of women of Japanese descent contrasts two methods of estimating prevalence of domestic violence. Eighty percent of respondents reported experiencing a male partner's violence during their lifetimes—a conventional estimation. A new method took into account the respondent's perceptions about the partner's acts—whether she considered her partner's behavior abusive an…
The Role of Emotional Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Health Among Women in Yokohama, Japan
Objectives. As part of the World Health Organization's cross-national research effort, we investigated the relationship between various health indicators and the experience of intimate partner violence (IPV), which included emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, among women in Yokohama, Japan. Methods. We used multivariate logistic and negative binomial regression to examine the relationship between health status and IPV in a stratified cluster s…
The Definitional Process of Domestic Violence in Japan
Recognition of a phenomenon as a social problem and subsequent social mobilization are critical to the development of social policy and services to address it. Action-oriented research projects on domestic violence conducted by grassroots organizations have played an important role in shaping public discourse on the issue in Japan. This article examines the process by which domestic violence came to be recognized as a social problem in Japan, par…
Policies and services addressing domestic violence in japan
A Web in the Patriarchal Clan System
Only recently has Japanese society come to realize the magnitude of domestic violence as a serious social problem. Using focus group methodology, this study investigated the function and the sociocultural reinforcements of male partner violence. The analysis of the participants' accounts of various types of violence their partners perpetrated, which were accompanied by an elaborate collection of tactics to reinforce the effects of the violence, h…
Enculturation and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence and Gender Roles in an Asian Indian Population
This study examined the relationships among enculturation, attitudes supporting intimate partner violence (IPV‐supporting attitudes), and gender role attitudes among one of the largest Asian Indian population groups in the US. Data were collected via computer‐assisted telephone interviews with a random sample of Gujarati men and women aged 18–64 in Metropolitan Detroit. Using structural equation modeling, we modeled the effects of three component…
Reinterpreting strength and safety in a socio-cultural context
Substance Use Among Asian American Adults in 2016–2020
Objectives. To compare substance use among Asian American adults in 2020, when anti-Asian violence increased, with substance use among the same group during the previous 4 years and compare this with that of non-Hispanic Whites. Methods. Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2016 to 2020, we investigated changes in substance use among Asian Americans compared with non-Hispanic Whites before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. …
Refugee-Led Organizations' Crisis Response during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Scholarship on disaster response and recovery has focused on local communities as crucial in developing and implementing timely, effective, and sustainable supports. Drawing from interviews with refugee leaders conducted during the spring and summer of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines crisis response activities of refugee-led grassroots groups, specifically within Bhutanese and Congolese refugee communities in a mid…
Using Interactive Theater to Create Socioculturally Relevant Community‐Based Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
This article describes the use of interactive theater, audience response assessment, and peer educators to create community‐generated approaches for bystander interventions (i.e., actions taken by people who become aware of controlling, abusive and violent behavior of others) to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and to foster change in community norms. We include a case example of an ongoing university–community partnership, which mobilizes…
The Life History Calendar Method and Multilevel Modeling
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent and often recurrent in women's lives. To better understand the changing risk of IPV over the life course, which could guide more effective policies and program responses, methodological innovations are needed. Life History Calendar methods enhance respondents' recall of the timing of specific types of IPV experienced over the life course. Multilevel modeling provides a way to analyze individual and col…
Wife battering in South Korea
Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Related Injuries Among Women in Yokohama, Japan
We estimated rates of intimate partner violence and related injuries in a sample of 1371 women aged 18 to 49 years in Yokohama, Japan. By the age of 30 years, 14.3% of women who had ever had a partner had experienced violence from that partner, and 3.3% had suffered injuries related to such violence. By the time women had reached the age of 49 years, these percentages were 19% and 4%, respectively. In addition to the need for increased prevention…
Battered Women's Coping Strategies and Psychological Distress
People are rarely passive, and battered women are no exception. This study investigated the types of coping strategies women of Japanese descent (both Japan‐born and U.S.‐born) chose and their perceived effectiveness in dealing with their partners' violence. Japan‐born respondents were significantly less likely to use “active” strategies and perceived them to be less effective than did U.S.‐born respondents. For the Japan‐born, the more effective…
Intimate partner violence and initiation of smoking and drinking
Model Minority Demystified
This population-based study investigated the prevalence of domestic violence and other types of interpersonal victimization among a random sample of women of Japanese descent (immigrants from Japan and Japanese Americans) in Los Angeles. This study found a high prevalence of domestic violence, as well as other types of violence, perpetrated by non-intimates. Differences by country of birth were found in some, but not all, types of victimization; …
Violence Against Women and Children Following the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster
This study reports on 82 unduplicated cases of violence against women and children after the Great East Japan Disaster of March 2011. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from informants who worked with the disaster-affected populations. In addition to domestic violence, reported cases involved sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact, including quid pro quo assault perpetrated by nonintimates. Perpetrators often exploited a sen…
Domestic Violence Against Women of Japanese Descent in Los Angeles
Using a more inclusive, culturally responsive measure, this population-based study of women of Japanese descent contrasts two methods of estimating prevalence of domestic violence. Eighty percent of respondents reported experiencing a male partner's violence during their lifetimes—a conventional estimation. A new method took into account the respondent's perceptions about the partner's acts—whether she considered her partner's behavior abusive an…
The Heart of Intimate Abuse
Reinterpreting strength and safety in a socio-cultural context
Model Minority Demystified
This population-based study investigated the prevalence of domestic violence and other types of interpersonal victimization among a random sample of women of Japanese descent (immigrants from Japan and Japanese Americans) in Los Angeles. This study found a high prevalence of domestic violence, as well as other types of violence, perpetrated by non-intimates. Differences by country of birth were found in some, but not all, types of victimization; …
The Definitional Process of Domestic Violence in Japan
Recognition of a phenomenon as a social problem and subsequent social mobilization are critical to the development of social policy and services to address it. Action-oriented research projects on domestic violence conducted by grassroots organizations have played an important role in shaping public discourse on the issue in Japan. This article examines the process by which domestic violence came to be recognized as a social problem in Japan, par…
Age Adjustment and Recall Bias in the Analysis of Domestic Violence Data
Policies and services addressing domestic violence in japan
Training Children's Services Workers in Domestic Violence Assessment and Interventrion
Battered Women's Coping Strategies and Psychological Distress
People are rarely passive, and battered women are no exception. This study investigated the types of coping strategies women of Japanese descent (both Japan‐born and U.S.‐born) chose and their perceived effectiveness in dealing with their partners' violence. Japan‐born respondents were significantly less likely to use “active” strategies and perceived them to be less effective than did U.S.‐born respondents. For the Japan‐born, the more effective…
Breaking the Web of Abuse and Silence
This article presents the findings of a focus group research project with battered women in Tokyo, Japan. Participants' narratives of their experience with their partners' violence suggest a web of entrapment, from which women saw little possibility of escape. The partners' physical violence, interference with the women's social participation, isolation from supportive networks, and degradation and debasement entrapped participants. The victim-bl…
Community Participation Reconsidered
This paper describes the process of planning, developing, and implementing a community-based project with Hmong women in a large Midwestern city. Combining action and research to forge relationships, identify common goals and garner resources, the Hmong Women's Project applied principles of both feminist and participatory action research (PAR). In light of the successes and challenges of this ongoing project, we critically evaluate the oft-encour…
Long-term Trends in Depression among Women Separated from Abusive Partners
This study tested a cumulative adversity hypothesis, where differences in postseparation stressors among battered women were expected to lead to a widening gap in levels of women's depression over time. Ninety-four women separated from their abusive partners were interviewed six times over a 2-year period. Consistent with the hypothesis, inequalities grew over time. Women who were exposed to the greatest amount of violence and secondary stressors…
Does the Life History Calendar Method Facilitate the Recall of Intimate Partner Violence? Comparison of Two Methods of Data Collection
Respondents' recall ability may compromise the validity of their report of lifetime experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study compared two interview methods: a commonly used structured interview method and the Life History Calendar (LHC) method, which combines a visual calendar with a semistructured interview schedule to help respondents gain better access to long-term memory. Comparison of two studies conducted with samples drawn…
A Web in the Patriarchal Clan System
Only recently has Japanese society come to realize the magnitude of domestic violence as a serious social problem. Using focus group methodology, this study investigated the function and the sociocultural reinforcements of male partner violence. The analysis of the participants' accounts of various types of violence their partners perpetrated, which were accompanied by an elaborate collection of tactics to reinforce the effects of the violence, h…
Intimate Partner Violence, Welfare Receipt, and Health Status of Low‐Income African American Women
Although the association among intimate partner violence (IPV), welfare receipt, and health status has been well‐established, little is known about the temporal sequencing of these events. In a random sample of low‐income African American women in an urban Midwestern county, lifecourse data about IPV and welfare receipt were obtained using the Life History Calendar method (D. Freedman, A. Thornton, D. Camburn, D. Alwin, & L. Young‐DeMarco, 1988),…
Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Related Injuries Among Women in Yokohama, Japan
We estimated rates of intimate partner violence and related injuries in a sample of 1371 women aged 18 to 49 years in Yokohama, Japan. By the age of 30 years, 14.3% of women who had ever had a partner had experienced violence from that partner, and 3.3% had suffered injuries related to such violence. By the time women had reached the age of 49 years, these percentages were 19% and 4%, respectively. In addition to the need for increased prevention…
The Role of Emotional Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Health Among Women in Yokohama, Japan
Objectives. As part of the World Health Organization's cross-national research effort, we investigated the relationship between various health indicators and the experience of intimate partner violence (IPV), which included emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, among women in Yokohama, Japan. Methods. We used multivariate logistic and negative binomial regression to examine the relationship between health status and IPV in a stratified cluster s…
Social, Economic, and Political Processes That Create Built Environment Inequities
Growing evidence suggests that the built environment features found in many high-poverty urban areas contribute to negative health outcomes. Both built environment hazards and negative health outcomes disproportionately affect poor people of color. We used community-based participatory research and Photovoice in inner-city Atlanta to elicit African Americans' perspectives on their health priorities. The built environment emerged as a critical fac…
Wife battering in South Korea
Risk of intimate partner violence
Intimate partner violence and initiation of smoking and drinking
The Life History Calendar Method and Multilevel Modeling
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent and often recurrent in women's lives. To better understand the changing risk of IPV over the life course, which could guide more effective policies and program responses, methodological innovations are needed. Life History Calendar methods enhance respondents' recall of the timing of specific types of IPV experienced over the life course. Multilevel modeling provides a way to analyze individual and col…
Violence against women is strongly associated with suicide attempts
Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program in an Asian Immigrant Community
To fill an existing gap in research and practice on intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities, the authors developed an IPV prevention program, called the Shanti Project, in an Asian Indian community in the Midwest. Building on the notion of shanti (harmony/peace), a cherished value and strength of the community, we created a communications campaign that combined social marketing and community-based participatory approaches. Recogn…
Enculturation and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence and Gender Roles in an Asian Indian Population
This study examined the relationships among enculturation, attitudes supporting intimate partner violence (IPV‐supporting attitudes), and gender role attitudes among one of the largest Asian Indian population groups in the US. Data were collected via computer‐assisted telephone interviews with a random sample of Gujarati men and women aged 18–64 in Metropolitan Detroit. Using structural equation modeling, we modeled the effects of three component…
Medicine (37 works) · Poison control (28 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (27 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Domestic violence (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Suicide prevention (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Injury prevention (16 works)