Kuba Krys, Colin A. Capaldi, Yukiko Uchida, Katarzyna Cantarero, Claudio Torres, İdil Işık, Victoria Wai Lan Yeung, Brian W. Haas, Julien Teyssier, Laura Andrade, Patrick Denoux, David O. Igbokwe, Agata Kocimska-Zych, Léa Villeneuve, John M. Zelenski
{"title":"Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine-country study of folk theories of societal development","authors":"Kuba Krys, Colin A. Capaldi, Yukiko Uchida, Katarzyna Cantarero, Claudio Torres, İdil Işık, Victoria Wai Lan Yeung, Brian W. Haas, Julien Teyssier, Laura Andrade, Patrick Denoux, David O. Igbokwe, Agata Kocimska-Zych, Léa Villeneuve, John M. Zelenski","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12533","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12533","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cultural sensitivity in societal development has been advocated for since at least the 1960s but has remained understudied. Our goal is to address this gap and to investigate folk theories of societal development. We aimed to identify both universal and culturally specific lay beliefs about what constitutes good societal development. We collected data from 2,684 participants from Japan, Hong Kong (China), Poland, Turkey, Brazil, France, Nigeria, the USA, and Canada. We measured preferences for 28 development aims. We used multidimensional scaling, analysis of variance, and pairwise comparisons to identify universal and country-specific preferences. Our results demonstrate that what people understand as modernization is fairly universal across countries, but specific pathways of development and preferences towards these pathways tend to vary between countries. We distinguished three facets of modernization—foundational aims (e.g., trust, economic development), welfare aims (e.g., poverty eradication, education), and inclusive aims (e.g., openness, gender equality)—and incorporated them into a folk meta-theory of modernization. In all nine countries, the three facets of modernization were preferred more than conventional aims (e.g., military, demographic growth). We propose a method of implementing our findings into a culturally sensitive modernization index.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"731-746"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12533","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45661406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social media addiction and personality: A meta-analysis","authors":"Chiungjung Huang","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12531","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12531","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This meta-analysis examines the relations between social media addiction and Big Five traits, together with moderating effects on the associations. Sixty-three studies comprising 74 samples (N = 32,032) were identified. The correlations between social media addiction and neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness are <math>\u0000 <mover>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 <mo>¯</mo>\u0000 </mover></math> = .17, .03, −.03, −.07 and −.15, respectively. The findings indicate that neuroticism is a risk factor for social media addiction, whereas agreeableness and conscientiousness are protective factors. The moderating effects of the country studied and measures of Big Five traits and social media addiction are mixed, whereas those for mean age and gender composition of the sample are not significant.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"747-761"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46041845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sheila X. R. Wee, Chi-Ying Cheng, Haelim Choi, Ciping Goh
{"title":"Toxic effect of fear of losing out on self-esteem: A moderated mediation model of conformity and need for cognitive closure in Singapore","authors":"Sheila X. R. Wee, Chi-Ying Cheng, Haelim Choi, Ciping Goh","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12534","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12534","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Kiasu</i> (fear of losing out, FoLO) is considered the single most defining adjective that captures Singapore identity, and it is well-observed in other Asian cultures as well. Despite the widespread endorsement of kiasu in Singapore, there is limited empirical research on the theoretical conception of kiasu as a psychological construct. To empirically investigate kiasu, we validated the construct and measurement of the FoLO mindset in Study 1. In Study 2, we hypothesized and found a negative association between FoLO and Singaporeans’ self-esteem, which was mediated by a higher tendency of conformity. In addition, we hypothesized and found that individuals’ need for cognitive closure (NFCC) moderated the negative link between conformity and self-esteem such that high NFCC accelerated the negative impact of conformity on self-esteem. Whereas FoLO is often described as a form of competitiveness, the moderated-mediation model of FoLO and self-esteem can be replicated with competitiveness but in an opposite direction. This demonstrated that FoLO and competitiveness are two distinct psychological constructs. Implications of FoLO in Singapore as well as in other Asian contexts are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"773-787"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44676591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is “thank you” effective even in Japan where “sorry” may be preferred? Toward extending the Find-Remind-and-Bind theory","authors":"Tatsuya Imai","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12532","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12532","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The core idea of the <i>find-remind-and-bind</i> theory articulated by (Algoe, 2012, <i>Social and Personality Psychology Compass</i>, 6, 455) is that receiving expressed gratitude facilitates positive attitudes toward the expressor such as increased prosocial behaviour. The current study tries to observe the phenomena in Japan where apologies are sometimes used when people express gratitude. In this experimental study, 671 Japanese participants received expressions of gratitude, apologies, both, or neither (control condition) in exchange for their help. The results showed that expressed gratitude had the most positive effect compared to the control, apology and both conditions; that is, expressed gratitude most strongly facilitated the message receiver's prosocial behaviour, self-disclosure, predicted outcome values, and social worth. Expressed apologies showed a limited positive effect. A structural equation model further indicated that predicted outcome values and social worth functioned in unique ways to mediate the link between expressed gratitude and prosocial behaviour as well as self-disclosure.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"762-772"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49096507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expressive suppression, confucian Zhong Yong thinking, and psychosocial adjustment among Chinese young adults","authors":"Lixian Cui, Ganqi Tang, Miner Huang","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12529","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12529","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The negative effects of the habitual use of suppression on psychosocial adjustment were usually attenuated in Eastern samples compared to Western samples. However, culture is dynamic and constantly changing, and it has rarely been directly assessed in empirical studies. Further, within-culture variations have usually been ignored. In the current study, we involved a Confucian concept of <i>Zhong Yong</i> mode of thinking, assessed individual differences in <i>Zhong Yong</i> thinking, and examined the main effects of <i>Zhong Yong</i> thinking and whether <i>Zhong Yong</i> moderated the association between suppression and psychosocial adjustment within two samples of Chinese young adults. Sample 1 included 431 young college students and sample 2 included 477 college students with more diverse backgrounds. Results showed that suppression was negatively associated with psychosocial well-being (i.e., peace of mind, perceived social support, and positive affect), and positively with adjustment problems (negative affect), whereas <i>Zhong Yong</i> thinking showed the opposite effects. Further, <i>Zhong Yong</i> thinking weakened the associations between suppression and perceived social support and negative affect. Our findings indicate that <i>Zhong Yong</i> mode of thinking is salient for psychosocial well-being among Chinese young adults and the habitual use of suppression may become negative for Chinese people in contemporary China.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"715-730"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49646806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanisms linking emotional labour and emotional exhaustion: Combining two different perspectives","authors":"Kyunguk Yang, Heeeun Jang","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12530","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12530","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although many studies have been conducted on emotional labour, the empirical evidence regarding the effect of deep acting on employees' emotional exhaustion remains mixed. Scholars adopting the person-focused approach have supposed that deep acting is beneficial for employees' well-being because it reduces the discrepancy between felt and expressed emotions—<i>emotional dissonance</i>. However, the mixed results of previous empirical studies indicate that a more balanced approach including an alternative mechanism that offsets the effect of emotional dissonance seems to be required. Drawing upon the job-focused perspective, which stresses the psychological costs of emotional labour, we posited <i>difficulty maintaining display rules</i> as an alternative mechanism representing the ego-depleting process of emotional labour. We tested the mediating effects of emotional dissonance and difficulty maintaining display rules on the relationship between emotional labour and emotional exhaustion. Our research model was tested using data collected from 211 salespeople over a 4-week period. Using multilevel path analysis, we find that emotional dissonance and difficulty maintaining display rules mediate the effects of surface acting on emotional exhaustion. Difficulty maintaining display rules mediates the relationship between deep acting and emotional exhaustion. Our findings suggest that emotional labour strategies impact employees' emotional exhaustion via different mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"688-700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43399614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does coming out matter? A serial mediation model from outness to reduced psychological distress among Chinese gay men","authors":"Jianan Zhou, Yunxia Wang","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12528","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12528","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coming out of the closet refers to the self-disclosure of one's sexual orientation to other people. A majority of gay men in mainland China are hesitant about coming out. Considerable research in Western contexts has demonstrated that coming out can alleviate gay men's psychological distress. The current study thus aims to understand the psychological impacts of coming out for gay men in mainland China. We employed a serial mediation model to examine the relationship between overall outness and psychological distress, with internalized homonegativity as the first-order mediator and perceived discrimination based on same-sex sexual orientation (hereafter “perceived discrimination”) as the second-order mediator. An online sample of 251 Chinese adult gay men (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 25.25 years, <i>SD</i> = 5.28 years) completed self-report measures of outness, internalized homonegativity, perceived discrimination, and psychological distress. Results showed that the negative association between overall outness and psychological distress was partially mediated by internalized homonegativity (indirect effect = −0.057, bias-corrected 95% confidence interval [−0.153, −0.011]), and serially mediated by internalized homonegativity and then perceived discrimination (indirect effect = −0.019, bias-corrected 95% confidence interval [−0.048, −0.007]), controlling for age. Additionally, we did not find the simple mediating effect of perceived discrimination between overall outness and psychological distress, which may be because coming out reduced oversensitivity and perception bias but increased the probability of actual discriminatory experiences. These results contribute to our understanding of how coming out affects psychological distress among Chinese gay men. Furthermore, this study may illuminate the design of psychological crisis intervention focusing on this group in mainland China.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"701-714"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48423097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongxu Lu, Jinyun Duan, Ting Wu, Bei Zhou, Changyuan Xu
{"title":"The influence of fear of isolation on contact experience disclosure: Evidence from safety management of the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Hongxu Lu, Jinyun Duan, Ting Wu, Bei Zhou, Changyuan Xu","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12527","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to rage, disclosure of exposure to the virus is of great significance to safety management, especially considering the long latency of the disease. We conducted a survey based on terror management theory of 2,542 people in 71 cities, representing all provinces in mainland China. The results revealed that fear of being isolated influenced disclosure of exposure to the virus and that this influence was mediated by defensive impression management motivation. An inclusive climate buffered both the direct and the indirect effects of fear of isolation on disclosure behaviour via defensive impression management motivation. The implications of these findings for research and safety management during the COVID-19 pandemic are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"646-657"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12527","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48610067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trait self-control is associated with lower positive affective instability: Findings from an experience sampling survey","authors":"Michihiro Kaneko, Takayuki Goto, Yuka Ozaki, Takumi Kuraya, Gaku Kutsuzawa","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12524","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12524","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Several studies have shown that trait self-control predicts affective instability: higher self-control is related to lower affective instability (or higher stability). However, these studies have not discriminated between positive and negative affective instability. In this study, we investigated whether self-control is related to positive and/or negative affective instability. We conducted an experience sampling survey with 79 participants (20 males and 59 females; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 19.16 years, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 1.11) to measure affective instability and a post-survey session to measure trait self-control. In the experience sampling survey period, the participants received six emails a day over 7 days (i.e., 42 signals in total) from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at intervals of more than 1 hr and indicated how intensely they experienced positive and negative affect at that time. The results revealed that trait self-control was related to positive, but not negative, affective instability. We discuss the results and offer some possible explanations for previous findings about the relationship between trait self-control and affective instability.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"799-805"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12524","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41948838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors associated with public support for a lockdown measure in China during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Xiao Wang","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12526","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ajsp.12526","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in China in early 2020 was considered effective by the World Health Organization and many academics around the world. At the same time, the Western media labelled these measures as draconian. This research examined the reasons why the Chinese people were willing to support such measures. Based on an online survey of 528 Chinese participants, conducted in April 2020, the results revealed that the participants' instrumental attitudes (e.g., the outcome of the lockdown), but not experiential attitudes (i.e., the experience of the lockdown), were predictive of their support for a lockdown policy. Further analysis showed that those with higher communitarian worldviews had favourable instrumental attitudes and strong support regardless of the level of the perceived severity of the virus, whereas those with lower communitarian worldviews had more favourable instrumental attitudes and policy support when perceived severity was high than when it was low. Both theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"25 4","pages":"658-673"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44684322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}