Asian Journal of Social Psychology最新文献

{"title":"Can online interactions reduce loneliness in young adults during university closures in Japan? The directed acyclic graphs approach","authors":"Kohei Kambara,&nbsp;Akihiro Toya,&nbsp;Sumin Lee,&nbsp;Haruka Shimizu,&nbsp;Kazuaki Abe,&nbsp;Jun Shigematsu,&nbsp;Qingyuan Zhang,&nbsp;Natsuki Abe,&nbsp;Ryo Hayase,&nbsp;Nobuhito Abe,&nbsp;Ryusuke Nakai,&nbsp;Shuntaro Aoki,&nbsp;Kohei Asano,&nbsp;Ryosuke Asano,&nbsp;Makoto Fujimura,&nbsp;Ken’ichiro Fukui,&nbsp;Yoshihiro Fukumoto,&nbsp;Kaichiro Furutani,&nbsp;Koji Hasegawa,&nbsp;Hirofumi Hashimoto,&nbsp;Mikoto Hashimoto,&nbsp;Hiroki Hosogoshi,&nbsp;Hiroshi Ikeda,&nbsp;Toshiyuki Ishioka,&nbsp;Chiharu Ito,&nbsp;Suguru Iwano,&nbsp;Masafumi Kamada,&nbsp;Yoshihiro Kanai,&nbsp;Tomonori Karita,&nbsp;Yu Kasagi,&nbsp;Emiko S. Kashima,&nbsp;Juri Kato,&nbsp;Yousuke Kawachi,&nbsp;Jun-ichiro Kawahara,&nbsp;Masanori Kimura,&nbsp;Yugo Kira,&nbsp;Yuko Kiyonaga (Sakoda),&nbsp;Hiroshi Kohguchi,&nbsp;Asuka Komiya,&nbsp;Keita Masui,&nbsp;Akira Midorikawa,&nbsp;Nobuhiro Mifune,&nbsp;Akimine Mizukoshi,&nbsp;Kengo Nawata,&nbsp;Takashi Nishimura,&nbsp;Daisuke Nogiwa,&nbsp;Kenji Ogawa,&nbsp;Junko Okada,&nbsp;Aki Okamoto,&nbsp;Reiko Okamoto,&nbsp;Kyoko Sasaki,&nbsp;Kosuke Sato,&nbsp;Hiroshi Shimizu,&nbsp;Atsushi Sugimura,&nbsp;Yoko Sugitani,&nbsp;Hitomi Sugiura,&nbsp;Kyoko Sumioka,&nbsp;Bumpei Sunaguchi,&nbsp;Masataka Takebe,&nbsp;Hiroki C. Tanabe,&nbsp;Ayumi Tanaka,&nbsp;Masanori Tanaka,&nbsp;Junichi Taniguchi,&nbsp;Namiji Tokunaga,&nbsp;Ryozo Tomita,&nbsp;Yumiko Ueda,&nbsp;Tomomi Yamashita,&nbsp;Kazuho Yamaura,&nbsp;Masao Yogo,&nbsp;Kenji Yokotani,&nbsp;Ayano Yoshida,&nbsp;Hiroaki Yoshida,&nbsp;Katsue Yoshihara,&nbsp;Ayumi Yoshikawa,&nbsp;Kuniaki Yanagisawa,&nbsp;Ken'ichiro Nakashima","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12658","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a countermeasure to the increased loneliness induced by the COVID-19 pandemic-related university closures, universities provided students with online interaction opportunities. However, whether these opportunities contributed to reducing loneliness during the university closures remains unclear, as previous studies have produced contradictory findings. We conducted a nationwide cross-sectional survey. Data were collected on demographics, social environment, social support, interactions, health and loneliness from 4949 students from 60 universities across Japan. We used psychological network and Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) to examine the effect of online interactions on loneliness during university closures during COVID-19. The results showed that the frequency of online interactions with friends did not exert a significant influence on loneliness during university closures. A comparative examination of the DAGs further illuminated that the social environment exhibited fewer pathways for interpersonal interactions and social support during these closure periods. The psychosocial pathways influencing young adults' loneliness show variations contingent on the university's closure status. Notably, the impact of heightened online interactions with friends on loneliness appears to be less pronounced among young adults in the context of university closure.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12658","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114451","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":"For Professor James Hou-Fu Liu: A Proposal for the Centrality of Relational Ethics in Public Psychologies","authors":"J. H. Liu,&nbsp;D. J. Hodgetts,&nbsp;S. C. Carr","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"27 4","pages":"522-525"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12661","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252506","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":"Belief in a just world for the self and others, Karma, system justification and well-being during COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 15 Asian nations","authors":"Phatthanakit Chobthamkit,&nbsp;Robbie M. Sutton,&nbsp;Alexander Scott English,&nbsp;Tarid Wongvorachan,&nbsp;Jesus Alfonso Daep Datu,&nbsp;Kai Li Chung,&nbsp;Chee-Seng Tan,&nbsp;Hirotaka Imada,&nbsp;Zafer Ozkan,&nbsp;Farzana Ashraf,&nbsp;Ryan Francis O. Cayubit,&nbsp;Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon,&nbsp;Cecilia Cheng,&nbsp;Chin-Lung Chien,&nbsp;Boby Ho-Hong Ching,&nbsp;Iram Fatima,&nbsp;Ding-Yu Jiang,&nbsp;Shanmukh V. Kamble,&nbsp;Aqeel Khan,&nbsp;Hyejoo J. Lee,&nbsp;Cokorda Bagus Jaya Lesmana,&nbsp;Najma Iqbal Malik,&nbsp;Deviga a/p Marappan,&nbsp;May Cho Min,&nbsp;Chanki Moon,&nbsp;Eylem Oruc,&nbsp;Emrah Ozsoy,&nbsp;Joonha Park,&nbsp;Marc Eric S. Reyes,&nbsp;Kosuke Sato,&nbsp;Luh Ketut Suryani,&nbsp;Ma. Criselda Tengco-Pacquing,&nbsp;Arun Tipandjan,&nbsp;Kwok Kit Tong,&nbsp;Cong Van Tran,&nbsp;Nam Thanh Tran,&nbsp;Hsin-Yi Wang,&nbsp;Victoria Wai Lan Yeung,&nbsp;Ahmad Mustqim Yusoff","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12667","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The World Health Organization (World Health Organization, 2020) announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. Globally, this situation affects people in various domains including mental health. Existing theories and research findings suggest justice beliefs are associated with mental health and may help to cope with adverse life circumstances. Participants (<i>N</i> = 3694) in 15 Asian nations completed measures of belief in a just world (BJW), Karma, system justification, well-being indices and COVID-19 impact. The results show that BJW for the self and system justification positively predicted well-being while BJW for others provided reverse associations. Furthermore, Karma predicted both higher life satisfaction and depression. However, COVID-19 impact did not moderate the relationships between justice beliefs and well-being. The results provide various psychological functions but do not consistently indicate the buffering role of justice beliefs during COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114452","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":"Moving forward with Asian Journal of Social Psychology","authors":"Yu Niiya","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"27 4","pages":"526-527"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252348","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":"Diversity in old age: Stereotyping of subgroups of older people across cultures","authors":"Christin-Melanie Vauclair,&nbsp;Carla Sofia Esteves,&nbsp;Friederike Eyssel,&nbsp;Charles Harb","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12651","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An ageing population is increasingly recognised as a critical concern in the social sciences, especially in regard to the issue of ageism. The literature suggests that older people are subject to ambivalent and paternalistic judgements. However, this does not consider diversity within the older population and that cultures may differ in how they perceive and evaluate diverse groups of older people. To address these gaps, a pre-study was conducted employing a freelisting task to identify old age subgroups. In the main study, participants from the United States and Germany (individualistic-loose cultures) and Japan, Lebanon and Portugal (collectivistic-tight cultures) were asked to evaluate 19 distinct subgroups of older people by using stereotype content measures. The results suggest that subgroups' clusters were generally perceived as low, medium, or high on both the competence and warmth dimensions providing no support for clearly ambivalent old age subgroup stereotypes. As expected, competence and warmth were consistently associated with the socio-structural variables perceived status and threat. Overall, the results point to similar patterns across cultures with different subgroups being evaluated in a similar fashion on stereotype content measures. This highlights the importance of promoting a more nuanced understanding of older people when addressing ageism in different cultures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"27 4","pages":"968-981"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253125","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":"Us or them: How COVID-19 vaccine priority influences perceptions of local-migrant worker relations","authors":"Tengjiao Huang,&nbsp;Haochen Zhou,&nbsp;Liz Jones,&nbsp;Chin Wen Cong","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12653","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare pre-existing societal fault lines, placing immense strain on intergroup relations and giving rise to xenophobic sentiments. Drawing on Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT) and Social Identity Approach (SIA), our study examined how the public allocation of COVID-19 variant vaccines could influence the dynamics between local citizens and migrant workers, and under what conditions. One key idea is that valued resource distribution that favour migrant workers may produce increased perceptions of realistic threats among local citizens which could lead to exacerbated negative attitudes and behaviours of high-status local citizens towards low-status migrants, whereas higher fairness perceptions of such resource distributions could potentially mitigate these negative attitudes and behaviours. To investigate these predictions, we employed a cross-cultural approach and conducted an experiment in both an Asian country (Malaysia; <i>N</i> = 197) and a Western country (Australia; <i>N</i> = 210). We manipulated vaccine prioritisation, assessed local citizens' perceptions of the realistic threat and fairness of vaccine prioritisation, and measured their attitudinal responses towards migrant workers. Our results showed that the perceived unfairness in migrant-favouring vaccine prioritisation, rather than realistic threat, negatively affected local citizens' perceptions of the migrant workers. We discuss the implications of these findings in the context of intergroup relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"27 4","pages":"995-1010"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12653","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253075","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":"Developing Theory of Mind in social domains: A cross-sequential study of Chinese rural preschoolers","authors":"Yuanxia Zheng,&nbsp;Cong Xin,&nbsp;Liuqing Tian,&nbsp;Yue Shen,&nbsp;Guoxiong Liu","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12656","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to understand others' thoughts and emotions, is crucial for social interaction. However, few longitudinal studies have explored ToM development within different social domains, particularly among rural populations. To address this gap, we conducted a study with 113 preschoolers aged 3–5 years from rural China. We assessed ToM development in different social domains using false belief tasks at three different time points with semester intervals, and we evaluated their performance on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and inhibitory control (IC). Results showed that ToM development trajectories differ across domains, with moral and social-conventional domains developing earlier than the personal domain. Additionally, while general cognitive skills such as language and IC are associated with ToM development across these domains, they do not significantly predict it. This study enhances our understanding of ToM development by emphasizing the importance of including rural samples in developmental research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117599","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":"Victims of the Itaewon crowd crush died twice: The role of justice beliefs (general vs. personal) and fatalism in predicting victim-blaming","authors":"Hoon-Seok Choi,&nbsp;Jeong-Gil Seo","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12657","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study analyzes how the two facets of justice beliefs (GBJW and PBJW) relate to victim-blaming in a recent man-made disaster that occurred during the Halloween Festival in Seoul, South Korea. We also explore the psychological mechanism that underlies the link between justice beliefs and victim-blaming by analyzing the mediating role of fatalism. We conducted a two-wave survey over the first 10 days of the disaster (<i>N</i> = 185 and 154 for Time 1 and Time 2, respectively). We found that the GBJW positively predicted victim-blaming at both Time 1 and Time 2, and this relationship was mediated by fatalistic cognitions about life. By contrast, the PBJW was not related to victim-blaming across the two measurement points. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the findings and directions for future research on the link between justice beliefs and victim-blaming.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12657","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117602","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":"Fear of appearance discrimination and its influence on well-being across cultures","authors":"Liya Ai,&nbsp;Qiuhao Cui,&nbsp;Chikako Tanimoto,&nbsp;Keiko Ishii","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12655","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lookism encompasses discrimination based on a person's physical appearance. In a society where lookism is prevalent, the question arises concerning the impact of the fear of lookism on one's well-being. To address this issue, we assessed the fear of anticipated appearance discrimination by constructing a new Fear of Lookism Scale (FLS). By testing 400 Japanese participants, we developed a three-factor seven-item scale and confirmed its convergent validity by establishing significantly positive correlations among its subscales (exclusion/devaluation, romantic rejection and insult) and related measures (physical appearance perfectionism and social appearance anxiety) in Study 1. In Study 2a, we gathered data from 312 Japanese participants to assess the scale's test–retest reliability. In Study 2b, combining data from 401 American participants with data from Study 2a, we verified FLS measurement invariance in the United States and Japan. Japanese participants scored higher on the FLS than Americans, particularly for exclusion/devaluation and insult. Across cultures, romantic rejection and insult were positively associated with physical appearance perfectionism, which, in turn, decreased subjective happiness through impacting self-esteem (or increased loneliness) and increased subjective happiness through impacting self-esteem (or decreased loneliness) respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12655","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117603","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":"Victim blaming and belief in karma","authors":"Cindel J. M. White,&nbsp;Aiyana K. Willard","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12654","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Witnessing the suffering of innocent victims can motivate observers to interpret the situation in ways that justify that suffering, such as viewing victims as more personally responsible or possessing negative traits. In a pre-registered cross-cultural experiment (<i>N</i> = 831 from India, Singapore and the USA), we tested whether belief in karma—a supernatural force that can be used to explain current misfortune as payback for past misdeeds—affects people's tendencies to blame victims for their misfortune. Participants read and evaluated descriptions of ostensibly innocent victims of misfortune, both before and after thinking about karma. When thinking about karma, participants rated victims as possessing more negative traits, and (in the USA) being less similar to participants themselves, compared to their baseline judgements. Belief in karma also indirectly predicted negative evaluations, due to karma believers' greater perception that victims were personally responsible for their situation. These results are consistent with previously established patterns of victim derogation and show how karma can shape social judgements in a manner that bolsters the perception of a just world where bad things are believed to happen to bad people.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"27 4","pages":"1011-1024"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.12654","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253204","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}