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

人们从不同的生活领域中获得生活的意义，比如家庭、朋友、宗教和工作。当这些概念被激活并易于获取时，它们可以影响一个人？对人生意义的判断。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，而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接近的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的意义，以及可接近的文化价值观如何更广泛地影响生活的意义。为了探索这一领域，在参与者评估他们觉得自己的生活有多有意义之前或之后，他们会想起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）。该研究将在韩国首尔国立大学与跨文化心理学和幸福专家崔仁哲教授合作进行。从社会认知学的研究中，研究者？5个假设是从文化作为情境认知的角度得出的。根据这一理论，文化线索可以影响随后的判断。有一个这样的判断在这个领域没有受到太多关注，那就是衡量一个特定的人觉得他或她的生活有多有意义。生活意义判断受语境因素的影响，如环境刺激的一致性。因此，研究人员假设，与文化相匹配的文化线索？S价值观对人生意义判断有正向影响。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结构。研究结果还可能影响从业者、咨询师和政策领导者解读跨文化幸福感数据的方式。该奖项是由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和韩国国立科学研究财团共同资助的东亚太平洋暑期研究所项目，旨在支持美国研究生的暑期研究。

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.