Generativity and Positive Emotion in Older Adults: Mediation of Achievement and Altruism Goal Attainment Across Three Cultures
Generativity and Positive Emotion in Older Adults: Mediation of Achievement and Altruism Goal Attainment Across Three Cultures
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DOI：
10.1007/s10902-019-00101-1
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发表时间：
2020-02-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Cheng, Sheung-Tak
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作者：
Au, Alma;Lai, Simon;Cheng, Sheung-Tak
生殖，即对指导下一代的关注，与代理（自我导向）和社区（他人导向）动机有关。然而，机构共融目标的实现的作用还没有被研究，参考跨文化的积极情绪。本研究考察了三种不同文化中成就和利他目标达成在生成性关注与积极情绪之间的中介作用。我们用成就目标实现来衡量代理目标实现，用利他目标实现来衡量公共目标实现。我们测试了中介效应的成就和利他主义目标的实现进行了测试，共有623名老年人来自捷克共和国，德国和香港。进行多组结构方程建模，以检验假设模型在三种培养物中是否等效。研究结果表明，成就目标的实现中介之间生成的关注和积极情绪的所有三个国家。然而，利他目标实现仅在香港介导了生成性关注与积极情绪之间的联系，而在其他两个国家则不然。虽然成就目标的达成可能在三种文化中的生成性关注和积极情绪之间的关联中发挥重要作用，但本研究还强调了利他目标达成的中介可能存在的文化差异。调查结果强调，需要进一步制定一个考虑到在不同文化背景下实现目标的生成性和福祉模式。
Generativity, the concern for guiding the next generation, is associated with both agentic (self-orientated) and communal (others-orientated) motives. However, the role of agency-communion goal attainment has not been studied with reference to positive emotion across cultures. The present study examined the mediation effects of achievement and altruism goal attainment between generative concern and positive emotion across three diverse cultures. We used achievement goal attainment to measure agentic goal fulfillment and altruism goal attainment to measure communal goal fulfillment. We tested the mediation effects of achievement and altruism goal attainment were tested with a total of six hundred and twenty-three older adults from the Czech Republic, Germany and Hong Kong. Multi-group structural equation modeling was conducted to test whether the hypothesized model was equivalent across the three cultures. Findings suggested that achievement goal attainment mediated between generative concern and positive emotion for all three countries. However, altruism goal attainment mediated the association between generative concern and positive emotion only in Hong Kong but not in the other two countries. While achievement goal attainment may play a significant role in the association between generativity concern and positive emotion across three cultures, the present study also highlights possible cultural variation on the mediation of altruism goal attainment. Findings underscored the need for further developing a model of generativity and well-being that takes into account goal attainment in diverse cultural contexts.