The effects of social change on the stability and malleability of the self-concept-from the viewpoint of cross-cultural comparison between eastern Europe and Japan

社会变迁对自我概念稳定性和可塑性的影响——基于东欧与日本跨文化比较的视角

基本信息

批准号：
15530414
负责人：
KANAGAWA Chie
金额：
$ 1.92万
依托单位：
Koshien University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2003 至 2005
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

This study aims at investigating the effects of the social changes on both the stability and the malleability of the self-concepts. For this purpose, we focused on Eastern European countries, mainly Poland where such drastic social changes as from the socialistic economies to capitalism did take place. Our research went on as follows :(1) We established the psychological measure for the effects of social change. (2) In 2004, the relationship between the flexibility of the self-concept and the coping towards the stress derived from the social changes was examined. As a result, it turned out that the higher flexibility of the self-concept was significantly related to the higher scores of the adaptive indices' such as mental health and self-esteem. Furthermore, these relationships were observed both in the Polish and the Japanese samples. (3) In 2005, for the purpose of the standardization of the findings in 2004, we investigated the meditative function of the social intelligence on the relationship above mentioned. Our hypothesis was demonstrated that the high social intelligence facilitated the adaptive function of the flexibility of the self-concept toward the social changes.Taking the results we've got into account, it might be said that the people with higher flexibility of the self-concept, i.e., those who have both the stability and malleability of the self-concept might be more likely to adapt themselves to the new environments generated by the social change.

这项研究旨在研究社会变化对自我概念的稳定性和可延展性的影响。为此，我们专注于东欧国家，主要是波兰，那里的社会主义经济到资本主义确实发生了巨大的社会变化。我们的研究进行如下：（1）我们建立了对社会变革影响的心理措施。（2）在2004年，研究了自我概念的灵活性与应对从社会变化衍生的压力的应对之间的关系。结果，事实证明，自我概念的较高灵活性与自适应指数的更高分数（例如心理健康和自尊）显着相关。此外，在波兰和日本样品中都观察到了这些关系。（3）在2005年，为了2004年的发现的标准化，我们研究了社会智能对上述关系的冥想功能。我们的假设证明了高度的社会智力促进了自我概念对社会变化的灵活性的适应性功能。考虑到我们已经考虑到的结果，可以说，具有更高灵活性的人，即那些更有可能改变社交环境的人，即那些更有可能适应自我概念的稳定性和锻炼的人，可以适应新的环境。