Name

Atsushi Aikawa, Ph.D

Biography

• Professor of Psychology, National University Corporation, Tokyo Gakugei University (1993 - present)
• Ph.D in Psychology from Hiroshima University (1995)
• Researcher, Lecturer, and Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Miyazaki (1983 - 1993)
• Invited Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (1989 - 1990)
• Assistant Professor, the Department of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University (1993-2004)

Area of Specialization

Theory and research of social skills for children and adolescents

Selected Works

• Aikawa, A., Fujita, M., an Attempt to Construct a Social Skills Self-Rating for Adults; Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Section 1 Science of Education, No. 56, pp. 87 - 93 (2005)
• Tanaka, K., Aikawa, A., Kosugi, S., the Experimental Study of the effects of Social Skills on Stress Reactions in Interpersonal Situations: The Effect of Relative Differences in the Social Skills of Two Persons Interacting with one another; Japanese Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 17, pp. 141 - 149 (2002)
• Fujieda S., Aikawa, A., an Experimental Study of the Effect of Classwide Social Skills Training on Children's Social Skills in an Elementary School; Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, No. 49, pp. 371 - 381 (2001)
• Aikawa, A., a Case Study of the Effect of Social Skills Training on reducing shyness; Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Section 1 Science of Education, No. 51, pp. 49 - 59 (2000)
• Aikawa, A., Experimental Studies of the Effects of Social Skills Training on Reducing Loneliness; Japanese Journal of Social Psychology, , vol. 14, pp. 95 - 105 (1999)