Longitudinal changes in marital satisfaction during middle age in Taiwan
The current 8‐year panel study explored changes in marital satisfaction among 614 married middle‐aged persons with seventh‐grade children. It also examined how individual health (physical health and depressive moods) and role changes (parenting transitions and life stress) were related to trajectories of marital satisfaction and investigated the buffering effect of family cohesion on these associations. Growth curve analyses show an inverted‐U shape in marital satisfaction during middle age. This indicates that regardless of the gender or age of the respondents, marital satisfaction among middle‐aged adults incre...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - February 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ying ‐Ling Hsiao Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Baby face wins? Examining election success based on candidate election bulletin via multilevel modeling
A growing body of research suggests that many voters rely on facial cues from political candidates to elect their leaders. Our study proposes that having a baby face could be an asset for a political candidate in a collectivist culture. Using election bulletin photographs from Taiwan's 2004, 2008 and 2012 legislative election, we look at the extent to which a candidate's baby face is related to election outcomes. Our multilevel modelling includes the number of candidates as Level 1 units, and the number of counties in which the candidates competed as Level 2 units. Vote share is the outcome variable. After considering the ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chun ‐Tuan Chang, Yu‐Kang Lee, Zhao‐Hong Cheng Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Intellectual intuition and Kant's epistemology
In order to construct culture‐inclusive theories of psychology to establish an autonomous academic tradition of Confucian humanism, this article provides a commentary on Zongshan Mou's philosophy of intellectual intuition (智的直覺) as well as his systematic bias in translating Kant's epistemology of transcendental idealism (先驗理念論) into Chinese as ‘transcendent idealism’ (超越觀念論). I will demonstrate that his systematic bias in translating Kant's epistemology into Chinese may hinder his followers in developing a comprehensive understanding of the dialectical relationships among various paradigms...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kwang ‐Kuo Hwang Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Confucianism as canonic culture
The present article is inspired by Liu's () idea on how Asian philosophy can, in general, and Confucianism, in particular, contribute to psychological science and practice. We first clarify potential misunderstandings of Liu's () paper as a theoretical argument for indigenous psychology or as a debate on philosophy or the philosophy of science. To interpret and develop Liu's idea, we then conceptualize the concept of culture as canonic (abstract, philosophical and as it appears in classical books or articles) vs. popular (concrete, experiential and as it appears in people's daily lives). Further, since Liu's main point is ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tian Xie, De ‐chao Su, Nian Zhong Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Height Psychology and challenges of the 21st century
The present article comments on Liu's target article while exploring the points of convergence and divergence of his Height Psychology with trends in non‐Asian psychology, and points to an area of further expansion demanded by the challenges of the 21st century, namely, climate change and intergroup conflict. (Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology)
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yoshihisa Kashima Tags: Short Note Source Type: research
Predicting Chinese international students ’ acculturation strategies from socio‐demographic variables and social ties
Different acculturation strategies (i.e. integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization) tend to contribute to different adaptation outcomes for international students. The current study examines Chinese international students’ acculturation strategies under the influence of sociodemographic variables and social ties they developed in the host country. A group of Chinese international students in Belgium (N = 183) participated in an online survey. The results indicate that integration was the most commonly adopted strategy among Chinese international students in Belgium, followed by separation, marginalizati...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chun Cao, Chang Zhu, Qian Meng Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
An exploration of the benefits of animal ‐assisted activities in undergraduate students in Singapore
The rise in psychological problems, attrition, and suicide rates of university students has been linked to the stressful challenges faced during university life. To buffer this, animal assisted activities (AAA) may assist in improving psychological and physiological well‐being in students, however, to date, there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Consequently, this study explored the psychological and physiological benefits of AAA in a sample of undergraduate students. Sixty‐two students from two local universities participated in an hour‐long AAA session delivered by Therapy Dogs Singapore. Measu...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jolene Muckle, Nicola Lasikiewicz Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Neo ‐Confucian epistemology and Chinese philosophy: Practical postulates for actioning psychology as a human science
The world is growing more interconnected, and Asian societies are increasingly able to play leading roles in global society. However, Asian psychologists and social scientists have yet to draw from their cultural roots to create social sciences able to make a difference in their home societies. This paper articulates an epistemology for the aspirational practice of Height Psychology as a human science informed by Kantian epistemology in dialogue with other philosophies, especially Confucianism and Taoism. The possibility of ‘intellectual intuition’ (direct knowledge of thing‐in‐itself, or noumenon) is allowed in Ea...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James H. Liu Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
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Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Cultural differences in body dissatisfaction: Japanese adolescents compared with adolescents from China, Malaysia, Australia, Tonga, and Fiji
Cultural influences on the body image of 133 female and 99 male Japanese adolescents aged 12–18 years (M = 15.9, SD = 1.2) were compared to those of a databank of 1233 female and 1149 male adolescents also aged 12–18 years (M = 14.9, SD = 1.5) from five cultures – Chinese, Malaysian, Australian, Tongan, and indigenous Fijian – surveyed previously using identical body image measures (Fuller‐Tyszkiewicz et al., 2012). Japanese adolescents reported the highest levels of body dissatisfaction despite possessing among the lowest body mass index (BMI) and also reported among the highest levels of media influen...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Miki Brockhoff, Alexander J. Mussap, Matthew Fuller ‐Tyszkiewicz, David Mellor, Helen Skouteris, Marita P. McCabe, Lina A. Ricciardelli Tags: Short Note Source Type: research
Differential relations of narcissism and self ‐esteem to romantic relationships: The mediating role of perception discrepancy
Recent research has suggested that narcissism and self‐esteem, though correlated, are qualitatively different. Little research, however, has examined narcissism and self‐esteem simultaneously to test their unique contributions. The aims of this study are twofold: to examine the unique contributions of narcissism and self‐esteem to romantic relationships, and to test the mediating role of perception discrepancy (PD) in these relationships. One hundred and three pairs of dating couples in Hong Kong were recruited to complete measures of narcissism, self‐esteem, relationship satisfaction and PD. Results from actor–p...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Shengquan Ye, Zando Kin Wai Lam, Zewei Ma, Ting Kin Ng Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Social representations of history, cultural values, and willingness to fight in a war: A collective ‐level analysis in 40 nations
This study explores at the national level beliefs about world history and their relationship with cultural values and attitudes towards a national war. A country‐level analysis of university samples from 40 nations involving 7279 students showed that beliefs about history as a superior plan, as social progress, and lawful processes were positively associated with lower human development, and materialistic and power distance values, as well as with willingness to fight in a future national war. Further, beliefs about history as a superior plan, as social progress, and as lawful process were positively related with a stron...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dar ío Páez, James H. Liu, Magdalena Bobowik, Nekane Basabe, Katja Hanke Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Ease ‐of‐retrieval effects on procedural justice judgements under conditions of informational and personal uncertainty
This study tests whether individuals' reliance on ease‐of‐retrieval processes when forming procedural justice judgements are moderated by informational and personal uncertainty. In Studies 1 and 2 we examined the predicted effects of informational uncertainty. Results indicated that participants in information‐uncertain conditions relied on ease‐of‐retrieval, whereas those in information‐certain conditions relied on content information to make procedural justice judgements. In Study 3 we examined the combined effects of informational uncertainty and personal uncertainty on reliance on ease‐of‐retrieval when...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Juan Liang, Hongyu Ma, Kees Bos, Xiaorong Cheng, Bin Wang, Hengqing Tong, Xucheng Guo Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Meaning in life and its relationships with intrinsic religiosity, deliberate rumination, and emotional regulation
Meaning in life is one of the core elements of well‐being. Although meaning in life has received considerable research interest over the years, much of this research did not differentiate between the two categories of meaning, that is, search for meaning and meaning in life. The present study first investigated collective explanatory powers that intrinsic religiosity, deliberate rumination, and emotional regulation – three predictors selected based on past literature – have on these two types of meaning. In addition, mediational effects of deliberate rumination and emotional regulation in the links between intrinsic ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chan Jeong Park, Sung ‐Kyung Yoo Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Sustainable Environmental Development: The Moderating Role of Environmental Identity
This study develops and tests a model of Chinese residents' evaluation of government developmental activities based on identity theory and social exchange theory. The study proposes hypotheses regarding the influences of perceived benefits and environmental identity on residents' satisfaction with the government, the moderating role of environmental identity in the relationship between perceived benefits and satisfaction, and the effect of satisfaction on residents' support intentions. The model is tested with data collected from 474 residents of four cities in China. Results show environmental identity, along with perceiv...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dong ‐xin Li, Sally Kim, Yong‐Ki Lee, Mitch Griffin Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
