Asian Journal of Social Psychology最新文献

{"title":"Using protection motivation theory to explain Australian's motivations to engage in individual and collective climate actions","authors":"Matthew I. Mackay,&nbsp;Anna Klas,&nbsp;Julian Fernando,&nbsp;Emily J. Kothe,&nbsp;Mathew Ling","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12660","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using an Australian sample, the current study investigated the usefulness of protection motivation theory (PMT) in predicting intentions for two climate actions—one individual action (limiting household heating and/or cooling) and one collective action (writing a letter to a local Member of Parliament urging them to take action to mitigate climate change). The data were analysed in two ways: (1) regression analysis, to examine the independent effects of coping and threat appraisals, and (2) latent profile analysis (LPA), to understand how the coping and threat appraisals may act in combination. The regression showed that PMT explained a significant amount of variance for both behavioural intentions. While perceived response efficacy and self-efficacy were significant unique predictors of both behavioural intentions, perceived response costs were a significant unique predictor of heating and/or cooling intentions. Although the regression analysis suggests that people were more motivated by coping appraisals for both outcomes, the LPA indicates that the coping appraisals are unlikely to lead to stronger intentions unless individuals perceive climate change to be sufficiently threatening. PMT research could benefit from employing LPA to identify participant profiles with heightened likelihoods of reporting stronger intentions to participate in climate actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119999","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 effect of self-control on impulsive consumption with the moderators of family socioeconomic status and peer feedback","authors":"Guojun Zhao,&nbsp;Xinrui Liu,&nbsp;Haixin Tan,&nbsp;Songbin Yang","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12663","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To better understand the relationship between self-control and impulsive consumption in different conditions of family SES and peer feedback among Chinese college students, we conducted longitudinal and experimental studies. In Study 1, a total of 326 participants completed the Chinese Consumer Impulsive Purchase Tendency Scale, the Chinese Self-Control Scale and two types of family SES indicators. The results indicated that trait self-control negatively predicts impulsive consumption tendency, with this effect being stronger in high family SES conditions compared to low family SES conditions. In Study 2, we recruited 148 participants who completed the Stroop task, the simulation method of peer feedback, the Impulsive Consumption Tendency Scale and the Impulsive Consumption Behaviour Scale. The findings revealed that the interaction of state self-control and peer feedback has an impact on impulsive consumption. Specifically, when receiving rational peer feedback, participants with high-state self-control (i.e., in non–ego-depletion condition) exhibited a weaker impulsive consumption tendency than those with low-state self-control (i.e., in ego-depletion condition). Therefore, our study demonstrates the relationship between self-control and impulsive consumption, as well as the moderative effects of family SES and peer feedback.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115887","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":"Improving social anxiety in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and asexual individuals through avatar customization and communication","authors":"Kenji Yokotani,&nbsp;Masanori Takano,&nbsp;Nobuhito Abe,&nbsp;Takahiro A. Kato","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12666","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Discrimination and prejudice against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) individuals exacerbate social anxiety. Communication via avatars in virtual communities may be an effective strategy to reduce related symptoms. This study measured social anxiety in LGBTQIA+ and non-LGBTQIA+ individuals among Japanese users of Pigg Party, a massively multiplayer online game, in physical and virtual communities that use avatars for communication. They answered questions on social anxiety in physical and virtual communities and avatar identification (i.e., the degree of identification of the avatar with the self). The number of avatar customizations and amount of communication via avatars (indexed by the number of virtual peers) were collected based on game logs. The results revealed that the LGBTQIA+ group exhibited significantly higher rates of social anxiety in physical but not virtual communities than the non-LGBTQIA+ group. Moreover, the LGBTQIA+ group displayed higher levels of identification with avatars than the non-LGBTQIA+ group. Increased identification with avatars and avatar customization correlated with an increased number of communications via avatars, which was consequently linked to reduced social anxiety in physical and virtual communities. These findings suggest that communication using avatars can reduce social anxiety among LGBTQIA+ individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115888","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 gratitude science inclusive? A scoping review on gratitude in individuals with diverse needs and exceptionalities","authors":"Jesus Alfonso D. Datu","doi":"10.1111/ajsp.12668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12668","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Past meta-analytic, systematic and narrative reviews have painted a highly optimistic backdrop on the psychological, physical and social rewards associated with gratitude. However, as most of these reviews focused on how gratitude facilitates optimal psychological functioning in typically developing samples, question remains on the extent to which these findings are generalizable to individuals with diverse special needs or disabilities. This scoping review aims to map scholarly evidence on the psychological benefits of gratitude in individuals with various special needs and exceptionalities. Most studies relied on the dispositional gratitude model (~59%) and cross-sectional designs (~75%) in investigating gratitude in people with diverse needs. Majority of empirical investigations also focused on studying gratitude in Western cultural contexts such as the United States. Further, prior studies showed that gratitude increased positively valenced well-being outcomes. Future theoretical implications and scholarly directions are charted.</p>","PeriodicalId":47394,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115883","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":"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}