Intercultural interactions and cultural transformation
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Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - April 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Zhi Liu, Michael W. Morris Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Extending Kashima's social construction of reality through the common ground of institutional communication and actors in social roles
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Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - April 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James H. Liu Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
How perceived interpersonal justice relates to job burnout and intention to leave: The role of leader–member exchange and cognition‐based trust in leaders
This study examines the linkage between employees' perceptions of the interpersonal justice demonstrated by their leaders and consequent job burnout resulting in turnover intention by focusing on the mediating role of leader–member exchange (LMX) as well as the moderating role of employees' cognition‐based trust in their leaders. Data were obtained from 158 MBA students attending a large university in South Korea. Using structural equation modelling, we examined an integrative model that combines interpersonal justice, LMX, job burnout, and turnover intention. The results reveal that (a) LMX partially mediates the rela...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: SuJin Son, Do‐Yeong Kim, Mina Kim Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Aligning inside and outside perspectives of the self: A cross‐cultural difference in self‐perception
Past research shows that European Americans tend to take a first‐person perspective to understand the self and are unlikely to align the inside look with the outside gaze, whereas Asians tend to take a third‐person perspective and are likely to shift their inside look in the direction of the outsize gaze. In three experiments, we compared Asians and European Americans' self‐perceptions when the presence of their parents in the background of self‐perception was primed or otherwise. Without the priming, both European Americans and Asians viewed themselves more positively from their own perspective than from their par...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Young‐Hoon Kim, Chi‐Yue Chiu, Sinhae Cho, Evelyn W. M. Au, Sunyoung Nicole Kwak Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The temporal dimension of national identification: An empirical investigation in South Korea and Australia
We argue that national identification can be framed temporally, such that people may differently identify with their nation's past or present. Further, we argue that temporal national identification has important consequences for attitudes towards social changes. Within this new theoretical framing, we tested the empirical separability and predictive utility of past national identification and present national identification in South Korea and Australia. Results showed that, in both countries, past and present national identifications are correlated but empirically distinct constructs, which independently contribute to gen...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Shang‐Hui Shin, Yoshihisa Kashima, Simon M. Laham, Uichol Kim, Young‐Shin Park, Jaisun Koo, Junseong Park Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Social role effects on gender stereotyping in Germany and Japan
Social role theory postulates that gender stereotypes are restrained for men and women observed in the same social role. Cultural differences in the valuation of communal attributes might moderate this effect. To examine this possibility, 288 participants (144 German, 144 Japanese) estimated the communal and agentic attributes of an average man or woman described in a male‐dominated role, a female‐dominated role, or without role information. We hypothesized and found that in Germany and Japan, participants perceived men as more agentic than women without role information and as similarly agentic in the same role. Howev...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Janina Steinmetz, Janine Bosak, Sabine Sczesny, Alice H. Eagly Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Cultural effects in emotion and gender recognition
We examined task switching between two properties of faces, emotion and gender, for individuals drawn from Western (White UK citizens) and Asian (Pakistani) cultures. There were three main results of interest. First, there was a double dissociation between gender and emotion classification across the participant populations – Western participants were faster to make gender than emotion classifications while Asian participants were faster to make emotion than gender classifications. It is argued that the different patterns of results reflect the greater attentional weight given to contrasting face dimensions in the differ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Amara Gul, Glyn W. Humphreys Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Relationship of cultural values to counterproductive work behaviour: The mediating role of job stress
The purposes of this study were to investigate how cultural values are related to counterproductive work behaviour (CWB), and to examine whether individuals' job stress acts as a mediator between cultural types and CWB. Using an anonymous questionnaire survey, the sample was comprised of 440 employees working in government institutes and private sectors in Thailand. The results show that job stress not only has a direct relationship to CWB, but also partially mediates the relationship between cultural values and CWB. The strong mediating links were between horizontal collectivism and CWB and between vertical individualism ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - January 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chuchai Smithikrai Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Face recognition as a predictor of social cognitive ability: Effects of emotion and race on face processing
The human face conveys important social signals when people interact in social contexts. The current study investigated the relationship between face recognition and emotional intelligence, and how societal factors of emotion and race influence people's face recognition. Participants’ recognition accuracy, reaction time, sensitivity, and response bias were measured to examine their face‐processing ability. Fifty Caucasian undergraduates (38 females, 12 males; average age = 21.76 years) participated in a face recognition task in which they discriminated previously presented target faces from novel distractor faces. ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jiaqing Chen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Interdependent self‐construal moderates coping with (but not the initial pain of) ostracism
Ostracism – being excluded and ignored – can cause psychological distress. There has been little research examining how a person's concept of self might influence the effects of ostracism. In the current study, we sought to examine the effect of self‐construal on the distress created by ostracism. Specifically, we assessed the potential moderating effects of self‐construal on both the initial distress of ostracism and the coping process. Participants, recruited in China, completed a self‐construal measure and were either included or ostracized in an online ball‐tossing game. They then reported need‐satisfacti...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dongning Ren, Eric D. Wesselmann, Kipling D. Williams Tags: Short Note Source Type: research
How does higher in‐group social value lead to positive mental health? An integrated model of in‐group identification and support
Previous research has indicated that the effects of in‐group social value on mental health are mediated by the extent to which individuals identify with their in‐group. Other research has shown that in‐group identification leads to positive mental health because it provides in‐group members with a psychological basis for social support. We examine how the individual's perception of the social value of the in‐group leads to positive mental health, integrating the effects of identification with and support from the in‐group. As predicted, the relationship between higher social value and decreased mental health (e...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ken'ichiro Nakashima, Chikae Isobe, Mitsuhiro Ura Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Cultural knowledge, category label, and social connections: Components of cultural identity in the global, multicultural context
Cultural identity refers to the psychological connection between an individual's self and a culture. In this paper, we identify three components that make up an individual's cultural identity – cultural knowledge, category label, and social connections. The cultural knowledge component connects an individual with a culture through the individual's direct endorsement of what are widely known to be the culture's central characteristics. The category label component connects an individual with a culture through the individual's depersonalized membership in a cultural collective. The social connections component connects an ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ching Wan, Pony Yuen‐Ga Chew Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Life events and internalizing problems among Chinese school children: An examination of the cognitive diathesis model
This study examined the cognitive diathesis model for child internalizing problems among 459 Chinese elementary school children in grades four to six. Life events were associated with beliefs about external control and threat perception bias, both of which were related to child internalizing problems. The relation of life events to internalizing problems was partially mediated by threat perception bias measured by ambiguous situation task. The main findings indicate that the cognitive diathesis theory for child internalizing problems might be applicable to Chinese children. This study contributes to the theoretical underst...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Weili Lu, Eric Daleiden, Sarah Pratt, Alexander Shay, Brittany Stone, Michael Asaku‐Yeboah Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
The association of relational and physical victimization with hostile attribution bias, emotional distress, and depressive symptoms: A cross‐cultural study
The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between relational victimization and socio‐cognitive patterns (i.e. hostile attribution biases and emotional distress) or social–psychological adjustment problems (i.e. depressive symptoms) in Japanese and European American children (N = 272; ages 9–10). Results showed that relational victimization, which was conceptually different from physical victimization, was associated with a greater level of emotional distress for an overall sample; however, the links between relational victimization and hostile attribution biases and depressive symptoms were ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yoshito Kawabata, Nicki R. Crick, Yoshikazu Hamaguchi Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Two selves and online forums in China
Chinese society is characterized by emerging fragmentation and by the coexistence of traditional and Western values, goals and norms. In this multifaceted environment bi‐cultural selves, which encompass social and individual orientations, may emerge. The aim of this paper is to explore if features of bi‐cultural selves concerning interactions, emotions, and values are reflected in online public discussions in China. In order to address this question, we explored two of the most popular bulletin board systems (BBSs): Tian Ya and Feng Huang Forums. BBSs attract almost one third of Internet users in China and provide thes...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - September 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wei Ming Ye, Mauro Sarrica, Leopoldina Fortunati Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
