EAPSI: The Effect of Accessible Cultural Values on Meaning in Life Judgments

EAPSI：可获取的文化价值观对生活判断意义的影响

• 批准号: 1614094
• 负责人: David Newman
• 金额: $ 0.54万
• 依托单位: Newman David
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1614094&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAPSI; Effect; Accessible; Cultural; Values

People derive meaning in their lives from various life domains, such as family, friends, religion and work. When these concepts are activated and easily accessible, they can influence one?s judgment of meaning in life. The value that one places on such life domains can also influence a subjective feeling of meaning in life, and these values vary by culture. The goal of the present research is to compare the effect of accessible values on meaning in life judgments in the US and South Korea to understand more completely why Americans find more meaning in life than Koreans and how accessible cultural values influence meaning in life more broadly. To explore this area, important life domains that vary by culture (e.g., academic achievement in South Korea and social relationships in the US) will be brought to mind either before or after participants rate how meaningful they find their lives. The research will be conducted at Seoul National University in South Korea in collaboration with Professor Incheol Choi, an expert in cross-cultural psychology and well-being.Drawing from research in social cognition, the researcher?s hypotheses were derived from a culture-as-situated-cognition perspective. According to this theory, cultural cues can be primed to influence a subsequent judgment. One such judgment that has not received much attention in this field is a measure of how meaningful a particular individual finds his or her life. Meaning in life judgments are influenced by contextual factors, such as the coherence of environmental stimuli. Thus, the researcher hypothesized that cultural cues that match a culture?s values would positively influence a meaning in life judgment. The implications of this research could help researchers understand the construct of meaning in life more fully. The findings could also influence the way practitioners, counselors, and policy leaders interpret cross-cultural well-being data. This award under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the National Research Foundation of Korea.

人们从家庭、朋友、宗教和工作等不同的生活领域获得生活的意义。当这些概念被激活并容易被理解时，它们可以影响一个人？S对生活意义的判断。一个人对这些生活领域的价值观也会影响对生活意义的主观感受，这些价值观因文化而异。本研究的目的是比较美国和韩国可及性价值观对生活意义判断的影响，以更全面地了解为什么美国人比韩国人更能找到生活意义，以及可及性文化价值观如何在更广泛的范围内影响生活意义。为了探索这一领域，在参与者对自己的生活意义进行评分之前或之后，人们会想到因文化而异的重要生活领域(例如，韩国的学术成就和美国的社会关系)。这项研究将在韩国首尔国立大学与跨文化心理学和幸福感专家崔仁哲教授合作进行。研究员S从社会认知的研究中汲取灵感，从文化作为情境认知的角度得出了假说。根据这一理论，文化线索可以影响随后的判断。一种在这个领域没有得到太多关注的判断是衡量一个特定的人觉得他或她的生活有多有意义。生活中的意义判断受到语境因素的影响，如环境刺激的连贯性。因此，研究人员假设，与S的文化价值观相匹配的文化线索会对生活判断的意义产生积极影响。这项研究的意义可以帮助研究人员更全面地理解生活意义的构建。这些发现还可能影响从业者、顾问和政策领导人解释跨文化幸福感数据的方式。该奖项由东亚和太平洋暑期学院项目资助一名美国研究生的暑期研究，由NSF和韩国国家研究基金会共同资助。