Cultural Attachment Theory

Hong, Ying‐yi

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“…In contrast to the common tourists, overseas Chinese students have a strong connection to China in terms of race and blood, and this natural cultural attachment helps them to scrutinize the image of the sojourn deeply. The dimension of cultural attachment has been emphasized and applied by several studies to explain the psychological constructs of international students in cross-cultural adaptation (Keller, 2013;Yap et al, 2017;Hong et al, 2013;Hong, 2017). Simultaneously, consistent with other explanatory dimensions of attachment structure, cultural attachment also has a deep relationship with cognition and affection (Japutra, 2020).…”

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New Thoughts on Formation of Tourism Perceived Images: An Investigation of Guangxi’s Overseas Chinese Students from ASEAN

Luo,

Mohamed,

Yusof

2023

J. ASEAN Studies

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The research attempts to explain the psychological formation of the image of the sojourn by overseas students who are culturally homogeneous with the sojourn by constructing a comprehensive framework for the composition of the perceived image that contains the new dimension of cultural attachment. In particular, a group of 482 overseas Chinese students from ASEAN with learning experience in Guangxi are the respondents, benefiting from the deep ties between their ethnic and cultural backgrounds with mainland China. It is a strategic consideration based on Guangxi’s international tourism market and image promotion for ASEAN. The research uses quantitative analysis to combine the external influences previously supported in the literature, cultural attachment, and Cognitive-Affective-Conative (CAC) three-dimensional perceived image framework into a more comprehensive model to conduct a hypothetical-deductive study. The results of the quantitative analysis consolidate to a certain extent that the internal constitutive conditions of perceived image are promoted by the CAC model and further test the influence of perceived image under the combined effect of internal and external factors. Meanwhile, it is confirmed that cultural attachment has a strong role in the formation of the perceived image of a specific tourist group. The overall conclusions of the research are rich in academic significance and represent a theoretical expansion of the destination marketing system in response to real-world needs.

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New Thoughts on Formation of Tourism Perceived Images: An Investigation of Guangxi’s Overseas Chinese Students from ASEAN

Luo,

Mohamed,

Yusof

2023

J. ASEAN Studies

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“…At a very fundamental level, humans, and potentially some non-human primates, need to learn the shared meanings, expectations and, generally, “ways of life” of their group. The theory of CA suggests that, similar to attachment bonds to caregivers and other adults, CA provides psychological security to aid in the defense of imminent threats (Hong et al, 2006, 2013; Hong, 2017). CA follows a two-pronged process in which individuals are attached to the members of the cultural group and to the abstract symbolic representations of the culture.…”

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“…That is to say, individuals can form a secure bond with their culture, which in return can buffer threat and confer a feeling of safe haven for individuals. This phenomenon has been called “cultural attachment” (see review by Hong, 2017). In this paper, we delve into an under-explored aspect of CA – What are the possible physiological and neurological processes underlying CA?…”

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Cultural Attachment: From Behavior to Computational Neuroscience

Yap

Cheon

Hong

et al. 2019

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Cultural attachment (CA) refers to processes that allow culture and its symbols to provide psychological security when facing threat. Epistemologically, whereas we currently have an adequate predictivist model of CA, it is necessary to prepare for a mechanistic approach that will not only predict, but also explain CA phenomena. Toward that direction, we here first examine the concepts and mechanisms that are the building blocks of both the prototypical maternal attachment as well as CA. Based on existing robust neuroscience models we associate these concepts and mechanisms with bona fide neurobiological functions to advance an integrative neurobiological model of CA. We further discuss the unresolved relationship of CA to other similar socio-cognitive concepts such as familiarity. Overall aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of integrating CA theory to computational approaches to culture and evolution (such as predictive processing computations explaining niche construction), as this will allow a dynamic interpretation of cultural processes.

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“…relating have shown to influence a person's well-being and happiness (Friedman et al, 2010). Yet, much of the research on the intersection of attachment and culture has approached the topic at culture level, by looking at attachment orientation levels across different countries (Schmitt et al, 2004), attachmentculture fit (Friedman et al, 2010) or attachment to a particular culture (e.g., Hong, 2017). The present study examined the intersection of attachment and cultural orientations at individual level, in Greece, a culture that combines elements of individuation (Georgas, 1989) and collectivism (Hofstede, 2001).…”

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Adult attachment, cultural orientation, and well-being in Greece

Kafetsios

Kateri

2020

Psychology

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Social bonds and relationships are important determinants of well-being and happiness. Peoples’ propensities for relating to individual and cultural levels can partially account for variations in well-being in different cultures. The present paper examined how adult attachment orientations, a seminal aspect of relating, and independent and interdependent self-construal, a cultural category of social relations, interrelate at an individual level to explain well-being in Greece. In a large-scale community study state secure attachment and independent and interdependent cultural orientations were all positively associated with well-being. As expected, the two relating constructs intersected so that higher interdependence was associated with higher anxiety and lower avoidance in line with expectations. Importantly, the interaction between interdependence and anxious attachment accounted for an additional part of the variance in well-being: participants higher in anxiety and interdependence had higher well-being whereas the inverse was true for participants higher in anxiety and independence. These results point to culture-specific patterns in how central relating schemas contribute to well-being[1].

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Cultural Attachment Theory

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

New Thoughts on Formation of Tourism Perceived Images: An Investigation of Guangxi’s Overseas Chinese Students from ASEAN

New Thoughts on Formation of Tourism Perceived Images: An Investigation of Guangxi’s Overseas Chinese Students from ASEAN

Cultural Attachment: From Behavior to Computational Neuroscience

Adult attachment, cultural orientation, and well-being in Greece

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