Cultural similarities and differences in social identification in Japan and Australia

Kashima, Emiko S.; Hitokoto, Hidehumi

doi:10.1111/j.1467-839x.2009.01273.x

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“…Oishi and Schimmack (2010), who analysed the same SWB-GDP relationship using Gallup Poll data, found its highest deviation in Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Brazil, attributing this to expected social support. Taking into consideration the fact that Latin American familism involves values of support, and that Japanese people in fact suffer from potential exclusion from close others (Kashima & Hitokoto, 2009), 4 if our results show a stark contrast between Costa Rica and Japan, it could suggest a role of expected social support that is independent of GDP. We controlled for social support at the individual level.…”

Section: Cultural Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 69%

Interdependent happiness across age in Costa Rica, Japan, and the Netherlands

Hitokoto

Takahashi

2020

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Age-related patterns of interdependent happiness were compared across general adult samples from Costa Rica, Japan, and the Netherlands using surveys. Interdependent happiness is the individual perception of one's degree of interpersonal harmony, quiescence, and ordinariness. Based on the available evidence concerning age-related changes in well-being, the authors predicted and found that interdependent happiness is positively correlated with age in Costa Rica and Japan, but not in the Netherlands. The cultural meaning of happiness and its life-long nourishment are discussed.

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Section: Cultural Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 69%

Interdependent happiness across age in Costa Rica, Japan, and the Netherlands

Hitokoto

Takahashi

2020

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…Therefore, the collective process hypothesis was supported in that a collectivistic context reduces indebtedness. The result indicates that, unlike past studies that showed everyday situations straightforwardly inducing culturally typical psychological tendencies (Kitayama et al ., , but also see Kashima & Hitokoto, for exceptions), the daily context where its members (i.e. Japanese) are so sensitive to indebtedness that they mutually try to minimize the emotion (Shen et al ., ) would be charged with less prevalence/impact to elicit the emotion from the people.…”

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“…Third, the aforementioned studies were silent about the process involved in this emotion: whether indebtedness is inherent in East Asians, or is also constructed by daily context (Kashima & Hitokoto, ; Kitayama, Markus, Matsumoto & Norasakkunkit, ; Morling, Kitayama & Mitayamoto, ), such that East Asians readily evoke indebtedness, especially when they are situated in a collectivistic context.…”

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Indebtedness in cultural context: The role of culture in the felt obligation to reciprocate

Hitokoto

2015

Asian J Soc Psychol

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Based on findings that East Asians report more intensely felt indebtedness than North Americans in response to situations in which they receive everyday help, the intensity of indebtedness was compared across Japanese and North American students using descriptions of indebtedness situations (Study 1) and scenarios (Study 2) in order to examine the cultural processes and meanings of indebtedness. In Study 1, felt intensity of indebtedness in 120 everyday societal situations revealed significantly stronger indebtedness among Japanese than Americans, and when Japanese rated on collectivistic daily situations. In Study 2, scenarios manipulating one's own benefit and other(donor)s' cost showed significant country-manipulation interactions. The result suggests that the intensity of felt indebtedness among East Asians might be attributable to their inclination to appraise situations in which they receive help in a more relationally concerned manner than their North American counterparts.

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Cultural knowledge, category label, and social connections: Components of cultural identity in the global, multicultural context

Wan

Chew

2013

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Cultural identity refers to the psychological connection between an individual's self and a culture. In this paper, we identify three components that make up an individual's cultural identity – cultural knowledge, category label, and social connections. The cultural knowledge component connects an individual with a culture through the individual's direct endorsement of what are widely known to be the culture's central characteristics. The category label component connects an individual with a culture through the individual's depersonalized membership in a cultural collective. The social connections component connects an individual with a culture through networks of specific social relationships. The three components are conceptually distinct, and yet may have interconnections in influencing the development of cultural identity. We examine the implications of the three components on cultural identification processes in the context of multiculturalism and global cultural contact.

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Cultural similarities and differences in social identification in Japan and Australia

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Interdependent happiness across age in Costa Rica, Japan, and the Netherlands

Interdependent happiness across age in Costa Rica, Japan, and the Netherlands

Indebtedness in cultural context: The role of culture in the felt obligation to reciprocate

Cultural knowledge, category label, and social connections: Components of cultural identity in the global, multicultural context

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