Exploring the roles of narcissism, uses of, and gratifications from microblogs on affinity‐seeking and social capital
The purpose of this study is to examine how the uses and gratifications of microblogs (i.e. Sina Weibo) can influence interpersonal relationships, especially in affinity‐seeking and perceived social capital. Data were gathered through an online questionnaire with a sample of 431 Weibo users surveyed throughout mainland China. Results show that (i) narcissism, content‐, and social‐gratification were positively related to intensity of Weibo use, (ii) intensity of Weibo use and process‐gratification were positively related to strategic performance, whereas only content‐gratification positively predicted affinity com...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ruo Mo, Louis Leung Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Individualism and sociocultural adaptation: Discrimination and social capital as moderators among rural‐to‐urban migrants in China
This study examined the associations of sociocultural adaptation with individualism and collectivism and the moderating roles of discrimination and social capital in the associations among rural‐to‐urban migrants (N = 641) in Beijing, China. Results indicated that individualism was associated with poorer adaptation for migrants reporting low perceived discrimination or low social capital. However, migrants reporting high perceived discrimination showed poorer adaptation, regardless of individualism; and migrants reporting high social capital showed better adaptation, regardless of individualism. Collectivism was no...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hongfei Du, Xiaoming Li, Danhua Lin Tags: Short Note Source Type: research
Cultural differences in perceived coherence of the self and ingroup: A Japan–Australia comparison
Past studies have found that East Asians ascribe less consistency to individual selves than Westerners, but ascribe more consistency to social groups than Westerners. Using the concepts of naive dialecticism (i.e. the tendency to tolerate contradiction) and psychological essentialism (i.e. the tendency to attribute a fixed essence to something) as different aspects of consistency perception, we examined patterns of perceived consistency of the self and national ingroup among Japanese and Australians. Compared to Australians, Japanese showed more naive dialecticism and less psychological essentialism for the self; however, ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Saori Tsukamoto, Elise Holland, Nick Haslam, Minoru Karasawa, Yoshihisa Kashima Tags: Short Note Source Type: research
Toward a social psychology of bilingualism and biculturalism
The intricate interactions between language and culture shape bilingual and bicultural individuals' psychological responses to social contexts. Language carries cultural scripts, ideals, and practices, which can be activated by situational cues. In the process of managing two acquired languages, bilinguals shift their self‐perception and self‐presentation to accommodate the prototypical norms characteristic of the culture being primed by language use. Cultural mindset can explain such language priming effects. In the process of negotiating two intersecting cultures, integrating bicultural identities is central to psych...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sylvia Xiaohua Chen Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
We‐commerce: Exploring factors influencing online group‐buying intention in Taiwan from a conformity perspective
This study investigates factors influencing online group‐buying intention from a conformity perspective. An online survey is used to sample 650 online group buyers in Taiwan. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is applied to examine the hypotheses within the theoretical framework. Analytical results indicate that social factors (online recommendations, media recommendations, and personal recommendations) positively affect social influence and online group‐buying intention. Individual factors (compliance and attention‐to‐social‐comparison‐information) positively affect social influence and conformity. Psychologi...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yi‐Fen Chen, Hui‐Fen Lu Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Cyber victimization and adolescent self‐esteem: The role of communication with parents
Internet use has increased rapidly in recent years, and has inevitably led to some negative outcomes, notably cyber bullying and cyber victimization. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cyber victimization and parent–adolescent communication on self‐esteem, and the moderating role of parent–adolescent communication in the relationship between cyber victimization and self‐esteem among Turkish adolescents. The participants were 337 adolescents with a mean age of 16.37, (SD = 0.89). The results of hierarchical regression analysis reveal that self‐esteem was predicted negatively by cyber victi...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yalçın Özdemir Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Social identity gratifications of social network sites and their impact on collective action participation
Collective action has been studied by social psychologists for over a century. Social network sites such as Facebook have further extended the ability of individuals to instigate social, political and organizational change, and provide a new context in which to study collective action. Drawing on social identity theory (SIT), self‐categorization theory (SCT) and uses and gratifications theory (UGT), this study explores the role of individuals’ group identification, social identity gratifications (SIG) and Facebook group use intensity on their willingness to participate in collective actions instigated through a Faceboo...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Michael Chan Tags: SHORT NOTES Source Type: research
Which personality traits are associated with cognitions related to problematic Internet use?
The effects of the Big Five personality traits on cognitions regarding problematic Internet use (PIU) have not been studied. The present paper aims to evaluate the effects of personality traits on cognitions regarding PIU that are classified as loneliness/depression, diminished impulse control, distraction and social control. Additionally, the mediator effect of the Big Five personality traits on the relationship between time spent online and cognitions regarding PIU was tested in a sample of 494 Turkish university students. Hierarchical regression analysis results reveal that controlling the effects of socio‐demographic...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Mithat Durak, Emre Senol‐Durak Tags: REGULAR ARTICLE Source Type: research
College students' search for sexual health information from their best friends: An application of the theory of motivated information management
Guided by the theory of motivated information management, this study investigated the extent to which Singaporean college students' sexual health information‐seeking behaviour could be accounted for by their anxiety of uncertainty discrepancy, their perceived outcomes of information seeking and their perceived confidence in seeking and coping with sexual health information acquired from their best friends. Taking into account that issue relevance may play a role in individuals' health decision‐making, this study also examined the effect of perceived vulnerability on respondents' sexual health information‐seeking beha...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Leanne Chang Tags: REGULAR ARTICLE Source Type: research
The role of collectivism orientation in differential normative mechanisms: A cross‐national study of anti‐smoking public service announcement effectiveness
The purpose of this study is to explicate the complexities of the mechanism through which norm messages achieve their intended goals, and to examine how the normative mechanism differs according to the collectivism orientation of two culturally distinct countries. To analyze data collected from 464 US and Korean college students, it uses the O‐S‐O‐R approach, which represents four elements of the communication process – (pre) Orientation‐Stimuli‐(post) Orientation‐Response. Multi‐group path analysis yields three major findings. First, collectivism orientation is significantly related to injunctive norm perc...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hye‐Jin Paek, Hyegyu Lee, Thomas Hove Tags: REGULAR ARTICLE Source Type: research
Editorial statement
(Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology)
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - August 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Emiko S. Kashima, Jianxin Zhang Tags: EDITORIAL STATEMENT Source Type: research
Is expressive suppression an effective coping strategy? A study of Chinese rescue medical staff following an earthquake
The current study examined the function of expressive suppression among Chinese rescue medical staff following a major earthquake. We administered self‐report questionnaires to (1) a sample of Chinese hospital medical staff (n = 305) who assisted victims of the Sichuan earthquake, and (2) a second sample of Chinese hospital medical staff (n = 149) who had not been exposed to a major stressor. To examine possible interaction effects among differing emotion regulation strategies, we also conducted structured interviews with a subset of rescue medical staff to obtain support for a positive function of expressive sup...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - July 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yiqun Gan, Yao Wen, Jiaying Wang, Marcus A. Rodriguez, Xinling Gong, XiaoFei Xie Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Linguistic representation of emotion terms: Variation with respect to self‐construal and education
The present study examines the linguistic representations of emotion terms in relation to educational attainment and self‐construal through a two‐part narration task. Eighty Turkish adults recounted four events that they experienced in the last five years of their lives (event‐description task) and then described what they felt during these events (emotion‐elicited narration task). The results show that higher levels of educational attainment and autonomous‐related self‐construal predicted higher levels of linguistic abstractness in emotion terms, whereas higher levels of related self‐construal predicted lowe...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - July 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ayfer Dost‐Gözkan, Aylin C. Küntay Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Power, communion and satisfaction: Authenticity as a common mediator in China
We investigated the mediating effect of authenticity on the ability of power and communion to predict feelings of satisfaction in work, romantic and friendship roles in a Chinese sample. That authenticity mediates the effect of power on satisfaction in specific roles has been previously demonstrated in studies with Western participants, and this study sought to replicate these findings in an East Asian context. Furthermore, given the importance of communion in maintaining Chinese satisfaction, our second aim was to extend previous studies by testing whether authenticity mediates the effects of communion on Chinese satisfac...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - July 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yi Nan Wang Tags: Short Note Source Type: research
Preadolescents' borderline personality features in a non‐Western urban context: Concurrent and longitudinal associations with physical and relational aggression, friendship exclusivity and peer victimization
The present study examined children's borderline personality features and their association with developmentally appropriate factors, including friendship exclusivity, forms of aggression and peer maltreatment with a non‐Western urban sample. The participants consisted of 234 Japanese preadolescents who were in the fourth and fifth grade (50% girls; ages: 9–11). Results of correlational analyses show that borderline personality features were stable during a six‐month period (r = 0.55). Moreover, results of mixed linear models indicate that friendship exclusivity was associated with elevated borderline personality...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - July 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yoshito Kawabata, Joanne Youngblood, Yoshikazu Hamaguchi Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
