Yo Miyata
Biographic Data
| ID | 6482100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yo Miyata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yo |
| FAMILY NAME | Miyata |
| SIGNATURE | MIYATA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwansei Gakuin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Effects of Communication Skills on Stress Responses While Speaking Japanese and English
The present study was conducted to examine the effects of communication skills on stress responses, such as physiological (blink and heart rate), emotional (state of anxiety and mood), and behavioral responses (smiling and expressing an opinion) in stressful communication situations, specifically answering questions and giving a speech in Japanese and English. Participants were 32 students (16 men and 16 women; M age = 19.5 yr., SD= 1.3) attendin…
An Examination of Masculinity-Femininity Traits and Their Relationships to Communication Skills and Stress-Coping Skills
This study examined the relationships of masculinity-femininity with stress-coping skills (Ozeki, 1993) and with communication skills, measured by the Social Skills Inventory (SSI: Riggio, 1986). Participants were 916 (353 males, 563 females) undergraduate students, mean age 18.7 years, in Japanese universities. The following 5 types were studied: the masculine type, the feminine type, the androgynous type, the undifferentiated type, and the midm…
An Experimental Examination of the Effects of Sex and Masculinity/Femininity on Psychological, Physiological, and Behavioral Responses During Communication Situations
The effect of sight levels on daily stressors and coping styles
The structures of daily stressful events of visually impaired people are reported, and the effects of the sight levels of the subjects on these structures are examined. Sixty‐nine visually impaired people (22 males, 47 females) were interviewed and divided into three groups according to their sight levels. Subjects provided examples of stressful events for three coping styles ( Don’t, Do by others, Do by oneself ). Statistical analyses of the dat…
Effects of Stress Coping Strategies on Psychological and Physiological Responses During Speeches in Japanese and English
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between personal levels of active and passive coping through physiological and psychological responses during stressful tasks. Participants were 78 Japanese male and female undergraduate students. They were assigned to give 3-minute speeches in Japanese and English. Their ECG and EOG were measured, and their anxiety and nervousness were assessed. Before the experiment, each partici…
Estimates of Impressions Based on Frequency of Blinking
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of frequency of blinking on creating a personal impression. The subjects were 88 Japanese university students, 35 males and 53 females, who rated stimulus persons on a seven-point semantic differential scale. The stimulus persons, two males and two females, were presented on a 20-second video simulating various blink rates, i.e., 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72, and 96 blinks/min. A facto…
Effect of Gender-Types on Interpersonal Stress Measured by Blink Rate and Questionnaires
This study was conducted to determine how differences of self gender-type and partner's gendertype in Japan had an effect on interpersonal stress (anxiety/uneasiness) during a conversation among mixed-sex pairs. The level of interpersonal stress was discussed in relation to blink rate. The participants were assigned to one of the following four pair types: (a) Male and female were androgynous (maleA-femaleA); (b) Male was androgynous and female w…
Comparison of French and Japanese Individuals with Reference to Hofstede's Concepts of Individualism and Masculinity
The purpose was to examine whether Japanese individuals were oriented toward collective and masculine values attributed to cultures by Hofstede by comparing them with those of French individuals. There were 110 French participants (54 men, 56 women) and 128 Japanese participants (41 men, 87 women), selected from undergraduate students, employed workers, housewives, and retirees. Their occupational proportion and their ranges of age were balanced …
The effects of sex, self gender type, and partner's gender type on interpersonal adjustment during a first encounter
The present study compared the effects of sex, self gender type, and partner's gender type on interpersonal adjustment during a 5‐min first encounter of androgynous and stereotypically sex‐typed couples. The 52 subjects were assigned to one of four mixed‐sex couple types: sex‐typed male and female (MF); sex‐typed male and androgynous female (MA); androgynous male and sex‐typed female (AF); and androgynous male and female (AA). Questionnaires (the…
Differences in the Time or Frequency of Meals, Alcohol and Caffeine Ingestion, and Smoking Found between ‘Morning’ and ‘Evening’ Types
The present study investigated some differences between ‘morning’ and ‘evening’ types in life habits, particularly concerning meals, ingestion of caffeine and alcohol, and smoking. The Life Habits Inventory and the Japanese version of Home and Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire were administered to approximately 1500 students, and data on life habits of the morning types were compared with those of the evening types. Significant differ…
Effects of instructions on the skin conductance response
The effects of the task instructions, i.e. to attend to or to ignore stimuli, on skin conductance response (SCR) were examined. In Exp. I, 26 females were asked to count the number of particular digits visually presented while their SCRs were measured. In addition, a group of subjects was instructed to attend and count the number of tones (AT, N=10) whereas another group was to ignore those tones (IG, N=7). The rest of the subjects received no in…
Short-term adjustment of oral temperature to 8-hour advanced-shift
The effects of 8-hour advanced-shift on the daily course of oral temperature were examined. After nine baseline days, two young adult males were placed on an 8-hour advanced-shift schedule for eight days, then four recovery days followed. Since one of the subjects was the experimenter (E), his data except oral temperature were not obtained. Sleeping period in baseline and recovery days was 0100-0900 (0200-0900 for E), and in shift days 1700-0100 …
Facilitation of human startle eyeblink responses by puretone background stimulation
This study investigated the facilitatory effects of pure-tone background stimulation on the human startle response. Startle eyeblink responses of 13 subjects to an intense white noise were measured under four conditions: silence condition and pure-tone background stimulations at one of three intensities (65, 75, or 85 dB). Amplitudes of startle responses were increased with the background stimulation and the extent of amplitude facilitation was p…
The Effects of Stimulus Variability and Signal Value Upon Habituation of the Orienting Response
The effects of stimulus variability and task upon the habituation of the skin resistance response component of the orienting response (OR), and upon OR-return elicited by novel stimuli were examined. Six groups were designed according to three variability conditions and two task conditions. Larger magnitude of OR and slower habituation were found for higher variability and task conditions. Moreover, lower variability produced a larger OR-return. …
The Effect of Signalling Upon Control of an Aversive Stimulus
When an aversive stimulus (S2) follows a weak neutral stimulus (S1), the responses to S2 are modified. Compared with an S2-alone control, facilitation occurs in the long-ISI (e. g., 8 s) condition, while inhibition occurs in the short-ISI (e. g., . 5s). The S1 employed in this kind of study can have the three properties of time, warning, and physical stimulation as a signal. In this study, the relations between response modifications and S1 prope…
Lead-Stimulation Effects on Human Startle Eyeblink Recorded by an Electrode Hookup
The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of the electrode hookup technique in studying the startle eyeblink reflex and the lead-stimulation effects upon it. In Experiment I, 60 subjects were tested to identify the distributional properties of the reflex amplitude. The results showed that the amplitude was distributed normally when a log-transformation was performed. Positive correlations between the measures of reflex and spontane…
The Analysis of the Incremental Stimulus Intensity Effect Upon Habituation of the Human Skin Resistance Response
The effect of incremental stimulus intensity on the habituation and return of the skin resistance response (a component of the orienting response) was investigated, using humans as subjects. On habituation trials, two groups, one with gradually increasing intensity stimuli (G-Gr.) and the other with constant low intensity stimuli (L-Gr.), showed smaller response amplitudes than a group with the constant high intensity stimuli (H-Gr.) or the fourt…
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The Analysis of the Incremental Stimulus Intensity Effect Upon Habituation of the Human Skin Resistance Response
The effect of incremental stimulus intensity on the habituation and return of the skin resistance response (a component of the orienting response) was investigated, using humans as subjects. On habituation trials, two groups, one with gradually increasing intensity stimuli (G-Gr.) and the other with constant low intensity stimuli (L-Gr.), showed smaller response amplitudes than a group with the constant high intensity stimuli (H-Gr.) or the fourt…
Lead-Stimulation Effects on Human Startle Eyeblink Recorded by an Electrode Hookup
The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of the electrode hookup technique in studying the startle eyeblink reflex and the lead-stimulation effects upon it. In Experiment I, 60 subjects were tested to identify the distributional properties of the reflex amplitude. The results showed that the amplitude was distributed normally when a log-transformation was performed. Positive correlations between the measures of reflex and spontane…
The Effects of Stimulus Variability and Signal Value Upon Habituation of the Orienting Response
The effects of stimulus variability and task upon the habituation of the skin resistance response component of the orienting response (OR), and upon OR-return elicited by novel stimuli were examined. Six groups were designed according to three variability conditions and two task conditions. Larger magnitude of OR and slower habituation were found for higher variability and task conditions. Moreover, lower variability produced a larger OR-return. …
The Effect of Signalling Upon Control of an Aversive Stimulus
When an aversive stimulus (S2) follows a weak neutral stimulus (S1), the responses to S2 are modified. Compared with an S2-alone control, facilitation occurs in the long-ISI (e. g., 8 s) condition, while inhibition occurs in the short-ISI (e. g., . 5s). The S1 employed in this kind of study can have the three properties of time, warning, and physical stimulation as a signal. In this study, the relations between response modifications and S1 prope…
Facilitation of human startle eyeblink responses by puretone background stimulation
This study investigated the facilitatory effects of pure-tone background stimulation on the human startle response. Startle eyeblink responses of 13 subjects to an intense white noise were measured under four conditions: silence condition and pure-tone background stimulations at one of three intensities (65, 75, or 85 dB). Amplitudes of startle responses were increased with the background stimulation and the extent of amplitude facilitation was p…
Short-term adjustment of oral temperature to 8-hour advanced-shift
The effects of 8-hour advanced-shift on the daily course of oral temperature were examined. After nine baseline days, two young adult males were placed on an 8-hour advanced-shift schedule for eight days, then four recovery days followed. Since one of the subjects was the experimenter (E), his data except oral temperature were not obtained. Sleeping period in baseline and recovery days was 0100-0900 (0200-0900 for E), and in shift days 1700-0100 …
Effects of instructions on the skin conductance response
The effects of the task instructions, i.e. to attend to or to ignore stimuli, on skin conductance response (SCR) were examined. In Exp. I, 26 females were asked to count the number of particular digits visually presented while their SCRs were measured. In addition, a group of subjects was instructed to attend and count the number of tones (AT, N=10) whereas another group was to ignore those tones (IG, N=7). The rest of the subjects received no in…
Differences in the Time or Frequency of Meals, Alcohol and Caffeine Ingestion, and Smoking Found between ‘Morning’ and ‘Evening’ Types
The present study investigated some differences between ‘morning’ and ‘evening’ types in life habits, particularly concerning meals, ingestion of caffeine and alcohol, and smoking. The Life Habits Inventory and the Japanese version of Home and Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire were administered to approximately 1500 students, and data on life habits of the morning types were compared with those of the evening types. Significant differ…
The effects of sex, self gender type, and partner's gender type on interpersonal adjustment during a first encounter
The present study compared the effects of sex, self gender type, and partner's gender type on interpersonal adjustment during a 5‐min first encounter of androgynous and stereotypically sex‐typed couples. The 52 subjects were assigned to one of four mixed‐sex couple types: sex‐typed male and female (MF); sex‐typed male and androgynous female (MA); androgynous male and sex‐typed female (AF); and androgynous male and female (AA). Questionnaires (the…
Estimates of Impressions Based on Frequency of Blinking
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of frequency of blinking on creating a personal impression. The subjects were 88 Japanese university students, 35 males and 53 females, who rated stimulus persons on a seven-point semantic differential scale. The stimulus persons, two males and two females, were presented on a 20-second video simulating various blink rates, i.e., 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72, and 96 blinks/min. A facto…
Effect of Gender-Types on Interpersonal Stress Measured by Blink Rate and Questionnaires
This study was conducted to determine how differences of self gender-type and partner's gendertype in Japan had an effect on interpersonal stress (anxiety/uneasiness) during a conversation among mixed-sex pairs. The level of interpersonal stress was discussed in relation to blink rate. The participants were assigned to one of the following four pair types: (a) Male and female were androgynous (maleA-femaleA); (b) Male was androgynous and female w…
Comparison of French and Japanese Individuals with Reference to Hofstede's Concepts of Individualism and Masculinity
The purpose was to examine whether Japanese individuals were oriented toward collective and masculine values attributed to cultures by Hofstede by comparing them with those of French individuals. There were 110 French participants (54 men, 56 women) and 128 Japanese participants (41 men, 87 women), selected from undergraduate students, employed workers, housewives, and retirees. Their occupational proportion and their ranges of age were balanced …
The effect of sight levels on daily stressors and coping styles
The structures of daily stressful events of visually impaired people are reported, and the effects of the sight levels of the subjects on these structures are examined. Sixty‐nine visually impaired people (22 males, 47 females) were interviewed and divided into three groups according to their sight levels. Subjects provided examples of stressful events for three coping styles ( Don’t, Do by others, Do by oneself ). Statistical analyses of the dat…
Effects of Stress Coping Strategies on Psychological and Physiological Responses During Speeches in Japanese and English
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between personal levels of active and passive coping through physiological and psychological responses during stressful tasks. Participants were 78 Japanese male and female undergraduate students. They were assigned to give 3-minute speeches in Japanese and English. Their ECG and EOG were measured, and their anxiety and nervousness were assessed. Before the experiment, each partici…
An Examination of Masculinity-Femininity Traits and Their Relationships to Communication Skills and Stress-Coping Skills
This study examined the relationships of masculinity-femininity with stress-coping skills (Ozeki, 1993) and with communication skills, measured by the Social Skills Inventory (SSI: Riggio, 1986). Participants were 916 (353 males, 563 females) undergraduate students, mean age 18.7 years, in Japanese universities. The following 5 types were studied: the masculine type, the feminine type, the androgynous type, the undifferentiated type, and the midm…
An Experimental Examination of the Effects of Sex and Masculinity/Femininity on Psychological, Physiological, and Behavioral Responses During Communication Situations
Effects of Communication Skills on Stress Responses While Speaking Japanese and English
The present study was conducted to examine the effects of communication skills on stress responses, such as physiological (blink and heart rate), emotional (state of anxiety and mood), and behavioral responses (smiling and expressing an opinion) in stressful communication situations, specifically answering questions and giving a speech in Japanese and English. Participants were 32 students (16 men and 16 women; M age = 19.5 yr., SD= 1.3) attendin…
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