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UTSUNOMIYA Hiroshi

Department / Course College of Comprehensive Psychology Department of Comprehensive Psychology

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Human Science

Academic background
1.		│ Hiroshima University Doctor of Education

Research activities
1.		Japan Society of Developmental Psychology
2.		The Association of Japanese Clinical Psychology
3.		Japanese Association of Family Psychology
4.		Japan Society for Reproductive Psychology
5.		Japan Society for Infertility Counseling
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Subject of research
1.	(1) Continuation/Adaptation of Married Life and Lifetime Development of Relationship with Spouse
2.	(2) Psychological Influence on Children of Discord Between Parents
3.	(3) Identity Growth from Adolescence to Early Adulthood and Psychosocial Issue of Parents

Research summary
Concerning the quality of married life and its psychological impact I am advancing an empirical research on the process of deepening and maturity of the relation with a spouse thoroughout their life as well as the impact that the relation gives to the persons concerned and their children. [Research Subject (1) Outline] I consider the change process of the commitment to the married life from the viewpoint of the life-span development and gender. [Research Subject (2) Outline] I consider the discord between parents and the impact on the personality development and personal relations of the children to be involved in it. [Research Subject (3) Outline] I consider the children’s emotional conflict over the evaluation of the children’s life by both their fathers and mothers and their hopes when they search their identities.

Present specialized field
Home economics/Human life, Educational Psychology (Keyword：lifelong development, life course, marriage/married couple, family system, identity, infertility treatment)

Papers
1.	2024/12	The Role of Family Functioning in Over-Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being Among Japan’s Youth: The Moderating Effect of Gender Differences and Rumination │ Youth │ 4 (4),pp.1787-1799
2.	2011/10	The influence of parental marital commitment on the identity formation of Japanese university students │ Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal │ 39 (10),pp.1315-1324
3.	2005	Gender, marital mutuality and identity development in middle-aged and elderly couples │ The Japanese Journal of Family Psychology │ 19
4.	2005	Perception of interparental commitment: Effect on anxiety in late adolescent women │ The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology │ 53
5.	2004	Perceived interparental commitment and self-affirmation in female adolescents │ The Japanese Journal of Health Psychology │ 17

Academic conference presentation
1.	2016/07/26	Development of the Inventory of Premarital Commitment (IPC): Factor structure, reliability, and validity
2.	2013/07/24	Individual differences in evaluation of married life among middle-aged couples
3.	2012/09/27	Consciousness of birth of a child in married young adults : Associations with marital commitment and exposure to interparental conflict
4.	2011/10	Attitudes toward marriage and parents’ marital quality: the role of intimacy with the romantic partner
5.	2010/05/16	Interparental conflict and marital commitment of parents :Effects on adult children’s desire to marry
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