{"title":"Fear of losing face and desire to gain face: The effect of face consciousness on materialism","authors":"Hongting Su, Ling Yang, Qing Dong","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Materialism can have numerous negative effects on college students’ psychology and behaviour. Previous research has theoretically predicted that face consciousness leads to materialism. Therefore, this study examined the strong predictive association between face consciousness and materialism using experimental evidence. Moreover, this study explored the effect of face message framing on materialism to determine the relative importance of fear of losing face and desire to gain face. Experiment 1 examined the impact of trait and state face consciousness on materialism among undergraduate students in the mainland of China using a questionnaire survey and a behavioural experiment. The results indicated that face consciousness predicted materialism. Building on this, Experiment 2 from the perspectives of trait and state face consciousness explored the effect of face message framing on materialism among undergraduate students in the mainland of China using a questionnaire survey and a behavioural experiment. The results revealed that fear of losing face had a stronger influence on materialistic values than desire to gain face. Our study enriches the psychological mechanisms from the motivational perspective of college students’ materialism and provide experimental evidence for developing targeted interventions to reduce materialism among college students by addressing face consciousness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144853803","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":"Transformation from ‘suffering’ to ‘perpetrating’ of adolescent bullying behaviour: The mediating effect of angry rumination and the moderating effect of sports behaviour","authors":"Yurong Lu, Jialei Gu, Bingbin Xie, Weinan Zhou","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study, based on a sample of 606 adolescents, analyses the relationship between being cyberbullied, anger rumination and perpetrating school bullying using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The study also employs the PROCESS macro model to verify the moderating effect of sports behaviour. The results indicate that being cyberbullied has a significant positive impact on anger rumination, anger rumination has a significant positive impact on perpetrating school bullying and being cyberbullied has a significant positive impact on perpetrating school bullying. Furthermore, anger rumination serves as a significant mediator between being cyberbullied and perpetrating school bullying, while sports behaviour plays a positive moderating role in the pathways from being cyberbullied to anger rumination and subsequently to perpetrating school bullying. Based on these findings, targeted recommendations are proposed to provide insights and suggestions for future research on adolescent school bullying.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833215","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":"Obligations in Japan: A three-year longitudinal study of midlife adults","authors":"Han Na Lee, Jeewon Oh, Takeshi Nakagawa","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Obligations embody a sense of responsibility toward others. Middle-aged adults may particularly feel obligated to many close others, from their parents to children, for instance. Previous studies suggest mixed findings on whether obligations benefit well-being and relationships. Accounting for the cultural context and different types of obligations can help explain the mixed findings. We examined obligations in 371 middle-aged adults living in Japan, using two waves of data from the Midlife in Japan (MIDJA) study. Factor analyses suggest three factors underlying obligation: light and substantive obligations to close others and public obligations to the broader community. Controlling for baseline outcomes, we examined whether obligation predicted changes in psychological and relational well-being over 3 years. Most associations between obligation and outcomes were non-significant. However, light obligation predicted less strain from friends over time (<i>β</i> = −0.21, <i>p</i> = 0.03), and substantive obligation predicted greater life satisfaction (<i>β</i> = 0.20, <i>p</i> = 0.035). Public obligation did not significantly predict any well-being or relational outcomes. Implications for research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773436","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":"Do momentary phenomena evoke mixed emotions?","authors":"Mariko Shirai, Masato Nagamine","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous studies have revealed that meaningful endings cause people to experience mixed emotions. Endings are ubiquitous in various facets of our lives and can be categorised into personally meaningful (e.g., a graduation ceremony) and less personally meaningful experiences (e.g., falling flowers). However, it is unclear whether less personally meaningful endings evoke mixed emotions similar to meaningful endings. We hypothesised that awareness of endings is necessary to evoke mixed emotions irrespective of whether the endings are personally meaningful. As a less personally meaningful ending, we focused on momentary phenomena that occur in an instant. Such momentary phenomena are assumed to heighten the awareness of the ending because of their short duration, thereby intensifying mixed emotions. Three experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis. The results of the studies indicated that momentary phenomena evoked mixed emotions, and momentary phenomena with high fragility heightened the awareness of the ending and elicited stronger mixed emotions than those with low levels of fragility. These findings suggest that both personally meaningful and less personally meaningful endings, such as ephemeral phenomena, evoke mixed emotions. This background is related to the possibility that the fragility inherent in momentary phenomena enhances the awareness of an ending.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144716994","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":"Correction to ‘An examination of the relationship between cultural distance and acculturation preferences in six post-Soviet societies’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tatarko, A. N., Lepshokova, Z. K., Berry, J. W. An examination of the relationship between cultural distance and acculturation preferences in six post-Soviet societies. <i>Asian Journal of Social Psychology</i>. 2025;<b>28</b>:e70013.</p><p>The Acknowledgements section is missing from the published paper.</p><p>The ‘Acknowledgements’ section as described below has now been added at the end of the paper after ‘Author contributions’.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681596","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}
Moh Abdul Hakim, Fadjri Kirana Anggarani, Ayu Okvitawanli, Takeshi Hamamura
{"title":"How culture shapes community resilience: A cultural-psychological case study of coastal communities' responses to climate disaster in Indonesia","authors":"Moh Abdul Hakim, Fadjri Kirana Anggarani, Ayu Okvitawanli, Takeshi Hamamura","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes and explores a cultural model of community resilience to climate-related disasters in two coastal villages in Indonesia. Through a case-based research approach, we conducted interviews and focus groups with a total of 30 community members and leaders to uncover the underlying processes through which culture plays a critical role in community resilience. Our analyses identified local indigenous belief systems and practices that help the communities adapt and develop strategies to collectively cope with the impacts of rising sea level, including <i>gotong royong</i>, subsistence practices, place attachments, rituals, <i>musyawarah</i> and <i>bapak</i> leadership. We interpret these results from a cultural psychology perspective and argue that community resilience is a culturally embedded process, shaped by the specific norms, values, identities and social structures of each community. Our research highlights the importance of taking a contextualized, place-based approach to understanding resilience that addresses the cultural dimensions. These insights can inform the development of culturally responsive interventions to enhance community resilience in the face of climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144672880","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":"Retrodiction: In-group advantages between Europeans and Chinese","authors":"Junhao Chen, Christopher Egan","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated whether the in-group advantage in facial expression recognition extends to the ability to retrodict past events based on others' reactions and explored the influence of cultural familiarity on retrodiction accuracy. Chinese and European participants viewed videos of Chinese and European individuals reacting to four emotionally evocative events (being told a joke, receiving a compliment, listening to a story, or being kept waiting) and were asked to identify the event that caused each reaction. European participants demonstrated higher overall retrodiction accuracy and in-group advantages in specific events, while Chinese participants showed limited in-group advantages and even displayed signs of in-group disadvantages, revealing an asymmetrical pattern of in-group advantages. The relationship between cultural familiarity and retrodiction accuracy is complex and may be influenced by factors such as behavioural accommodation and cultural differences in emotion expression, regulation, and interpretation. The findings highlight the importance of considering cultural factors in emotion communication and social cognition research and underscore the need for developing cross-cultural competence in an increasingly globalized world.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144666261","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":"Validation of psychological entitlement measurement in South Korea","authors":"Jaehong Joo, Minji Park, SeMin Yim, Ji Hoon Song","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Individuals inherently develop an awareness of the relationships surrounding them and form expectations based on that awareness. However, if those expectations are misguided, a cumulative distortion of their understanding of those relationships can result and foster a sense of entitlement, causing individuals to demand more than what is reasonable from their relationships. Despite potential issues with entitlement, there is a dearth of adequate measures that consider intercultural contexts. Because standard psychological entitlement measures are widely used across diverse populations, validating them in various contexts is essential. In Study 1, we translated the original Psychological Entitlement Scale (PES; <i>Journal of Personality Assessment</i>, 2004, <b>83</b>, 29) into Korean and validated the translated scale with a Korean sample by conducting exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis and applying the Rasch model. In Study 2, we examined a revised eight-item Korean version of the PES measurement by applying the Rasch model, conducting a confirmatory factor analysis, and verifying reliability. We found that psychological entitlement has a positive relationship with narcissism and a nonsignificant relationship with unethical pro-organizational behaviour. We also found that the modified measurement displayed greater convergent and discriminant validity than the original measure.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajsp.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647219","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":"Global consciousness as a remedy for selective exposure to outgroup information","authors":"Tian Xie, Meihui Tang","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Intergroup conflicts—fuelled by ideological divides, resource competition, and cultural clashes—have intensified global polarization, reinforcing individuals' tendency to engage in <i>selective exposure</i> (SE). This research examines whether <i>Global Consciousness</i> (GC)—characterized by awareness of human interconnectedness, respect for diversity, and moral responsibility—can reduce SE by promoting openness to outgroup information, particularly positive content. Following a pretest validating the SE measure, we conducted three studies using both survey and experimental designs (<i>N</i> = 488). Study 1 found that dispositional GC (i.e., Global Citizenship Identification and Identification with All Humanity) was positively associated with the selection of positive information of foreign outgroup. Study 2 employed an identity-based priming of GC and revealed main effects: higher intergroup conflict reduced the selection of outgroup information, especially positive content, while higher GC increased it. Study 3 primed mindset-based GC and further revealed a significant interaction: under high intergroup conflict, participants with higher GC showed greater selection of positive outgroup information, indicating reduced SE. The findings of this study reveal the crucial role of GC in facilitating individuals' acquisition of comprehensive information about outgroups. This not only broadens the potential applications of GC but also offers new perspectives for reducing SE. Significantly, the method developed in the current research for manipulating both dimensions of global consciousness—GC identity and GC mindset—provides a pathway for future experimental studies on GC.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624383","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":"The relationship between materialism and susceptibility to online fraud among Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model from trait and state perspectives","authors":"Guojun Zhao, Pei Mu","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Online fraud in China is increasingly targeting the younger population, with susceptibility to online fraud serving as a critical indicator for predicting this risk. This study explores the relationship between materialism and susceptibility to online fraud among Chinese college students, as well as the underlying mechanisms from both trait and state perspectives. Study 1 involved a survey of 827 Chinese college students utilizing a cross-sectional design, with the <i>Materialism Values Scale for College Students</i>, the <i>Telecom Network Susceptibility to Internet Fraud Questionnaire</i>, the <i>Self-Control Scale for Chinese College Students</i> and the <i>Social Comparison Effect Scale</i>. Results revealed a positive correlation between materialism and susceptibility to online fraud, with self-control serving as a mediating factor and social comparison as a moderating factor. In Study 2, 144 Chinese college students were recruited for an experimental study to induce varying levels of materialism via a scrambled-sentence paradigm, while manipulating the direction of social comparison. Findings confirmed that materialism directly influences susceptibility to online fraud, with self-control as a mediating variable and social comparison as a moderating variable. In conclusion, under conditions of upward social comparison, materialism significantly heightens online fraud risk by undermining self-control. This study discusses these findings in detail and proposes future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615324","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}