Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Morling Et Al. / Emphasis of Cultural Practices Cultural Practices Emphasize Influence in the United States and Adjustment in Japan
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Morling Et Al. / Emphasis of Cultural Practices Cultural Practices Emphasize Influence in the United States and Adjustment in Japan
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人格与社会心理学通报莫林等人。
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Yuri Miyamoto
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Beth Morling;S. Kitayama;Yuri Miyamoto
People have the capacity both to influence their environment and to adjust to it, but the United States and Japan are said to emphasize these processes differently. The authors suggest that Americans and Japanese develop distinct psychological characteristics , which are attuned to social practices that emphasize influence (in the United States) and adjustment (in Japan). American participants could remember more, and more recent, situations that involve influence, and Japanese respondents could remember more, and more recent, situations that involve adjustment. Second, American-made influence situations evoked stronger feelings of efficacy, whereas Japanese-made adjustment situations evoked stronger feelings of relatedness. Third, Ameri-cans reported more efficacy than Japanese, especially when responding to influence situations. Japanese felt more interper-sonally close than Americans, especially when responding to adjustment situations. Surprisingly, U.S. influence situations also made people feel close to others, perhaps because they involved influencing other people. Several psychological writers have noted a potential tension between a pair of human motives: to effica-ciously act on the world and to adjust oneself to others. Erich Fromm (1941), for example, argued that as people achieve autonomy and personal freedom, they are potentially faced with feelings of alienation from a broader culture and lack of meaning. Psychoanalyst Otto Rank (1932) wrote that when people feel autonomous and in control, they risk feeling isolated from others, whereas when they accommodate themselves to a family or community, they fear the " death " of the individual self. Freud famously said that the healthy person is able " to love and to work " (Gay, 1989). According to these views, people want both to influence the events and people around them and to adjust to fit in with people or communities. In one line of contemporary psychology (Rothbaum, Weisz, & Snyder, 1982), these two motives have been investigated as the concepts of " primary control " (acting on the environment in order to influence it) and " secondary control " (adjusting oneself to one's circumstances). These two important motives may be manifest both in situated action, such as controlling some event or adjusting to some set of circumstances, and in psychological responses, such as efficacy or trust. Furthermore, they are closely associated with cross-culturally divergent construals of self. Thus, whereas acts of influence enhance the independence and autonomy of the self, acts of adjustment highlight the interdependence and con-nectedness of the self with others (Kitayama & Markus, 2000). Research on …
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10.1037//0012-1649.33.3.508
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1997
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Developmental psychology.
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Thurber,CA;Weisz,JR
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Weisz,JR
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JOSEPHS, RA;MARKUS, HR;TAFARODI, RW
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TAFARODI, RW