Interpersonal relationship mindsets and rejection sensitivity across cultures: The role of relational mobility

Lou, Nigel Mantou; Li, Liman Man Wai

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.004

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“…Consistent with the previous work (Lou & Li, ), the results showed that European Canadians reported higher perceived relational mobility ( M = 4.454, SD = 0.643) than Hong Kong Chinese did ( M = 3.937; SD = 0.631), t (113) = 4.330, p < .001, Cohen's d = .821, 95% CI [0.280, 0.754].…”

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“…The effect size of the group difference in relational mobility between North Americans and East Asians varied from small (Zhang & Li, ; d = .284) to large (Lou & Li, ; d = .868); thus, we expected a medium effect size. A statistically significant medium effect (i.e., d = .5, p = .05) would require about 65 participants per culture to attain 80% power by G*Power (Faul, Erdfelder, Buchner, & Lang, ).…”

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“…A statistically significant medium effect (i.e., d = .5, p = .05) would require about 65 participants per culture to attain 80% power by G*Power (Faul, Erdfelder, Buchner, & Lang, ). Finally, we have recruited 54 Hong Kong Chinese (33 females, two did not report their gender; mean age = 22.093, SD = 3.509) living in a low‐relational‐mobility society (i.e., Hong Kong), and 59 European Canadians (45 females; mean age = 19.322, SD = 1.479) living in a high‐relational‐mobility society (i.e., Canada), suggested by previous work (Lou & Li, ). With the expected medium effect size and the given sample size, the achieved power of this study was 75%.…”

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“…For instance, high mobility (vs. low mobility) would promote larger friendship networks (Lun, Roth, Oishi, & Kesebir, 2012), fewer cautions about friendship and less concern about existences of enemies (Li, Adams, Kurtis, & Hamamura, 2015). Mobility also extensively shapes people's strategies used in different types of social relationships (e.g., Li, Hamamura, & Adams, 2016;Lou & Li, 2017;Sato, Yuki, & Norasakkunkit, 2014). For instance, self-disclosure in friendship (Schug, Yuki, & Maddux, 2010) and intimacy seeking in both friendship and romantic relationships (Yamada, Kito, & Yuki, 2015) are more likely to be adopted as a commitment device to strengthen relationships in high-relational-mobility societies.…”

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Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances

Masuda

Lee

2017

British J Social Psychol

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Enemyship occurs across societies, but it has not received as much attention as other types of relationships such as friendship in previous research. This research examined the influence of relational mobility on people's motivation to understand their personal enemies by measuring different dependent variables across three studies. First, a crosscultural comparison study found that Hong Kong Chinese, from a low-relational-mobility society, reported a stronger desire to seek proximity to enemies relative to European Canadians, from a high-relational-mobility society (Study 1). To test causality, two manipulation studies were conducted. Participants were presented with images of coworkers, including enemies, friends, and acquaintances, in a hypothetical company. The results showed that the participants who perceived lower relational mobility paid more attention to their enemies in an eye-tracking task (Study 2) and had a higher accuracy rate for recognizing the faces of the enemies in an incidental memory test (Study 3). In contrast, the influence of relational mobility on motivation to understand friends and acquaintances was minimal. Implications for research on interpersonal relationships and relational mobility are discussed.

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Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances

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2017

British J Social Psychol

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“…One of the identified factors that shape people's expectation about the future is lay beliefs regarding change. For instance, the research on incremental versus entity theories found that people with an incremental mindset (perceiving a target attribute to be malleable) tended to perceive more changes of the target entity than those with an entity mindset (perceiving a target attribute to be stable) (e.g., Chiu, Dweck, Tong, & Fu, ; Lou & Li, ; Rydell, Hugenberg, Ray, & Mackie, ). The change‐related lay beliefs promote not only stronger perception of change in the future but also stronger positive attitudes toward the future.…”

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Dialectical beliefs and savings tendency: Opposite patterns in good versus bad current status

2017

J Applied Social Pyschol

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People often experience a dilemma: whether we should invest now for a better future or save now for an unexpected future. The current research investigated the influence of dialecticism, a constellation of lay beliefs stating that the world is full of constant changes, coexisting contradictions, and interdependent relationships, on people's savings tendencies when they are with good versus bad status. Study 1 verified that dialectical beliefs were negatively associated with optimistic expectations among people with good status (i.e., high socioeconomic status) but positively associated with optimistic expectations among people with bad status (i.e., low socioeconomic status). Next, Studies 2 and 3 examined the interaction effect between dialectical beliefs and people's current status in predicting their savings tendencies in the investment scenarios with the focus on savings decision‐making and emotional experiences related to savings scenarios, respectively. Finally, to test generalizability, Study 4 examined people's savings tendencies in the situation that they needed to prevent failure instead of doing investments. The results converged to support the hypothesis that stronger dialectical beliefs predicted greater savings tendencies among people with good current status but weaker savings tendencies among people with bad current status. These findings demonstrated that the effect of dialectical beliefs on savings tendencies varies as a function of the characteristics of the situations, which advances the theoretical understanding of dialecticism in decision‐making research.

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Empathy and social closeness toward refugees from Syria: The mediating role of cultural intelligence

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Jagiełło-Rusiłowski

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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The predictors of social closeness toward refugees are rarely examined. In this study (N = 337), higher cultural intelligence (CQ) and higher empathy were defined as predictors of higher social closeness (lower social distance [the Social Distance Scale] and warmer feelings [the Feeling Thermometer]) toward refugees from Syria. This is the target group of prejudice and intensive coverage in the European mass media. The obtained results indicated that other‐oriented empathy (empathic concern and perspective taking) and the motivational CQ predicted higher social closeness and warmer feelings toward refugees from Syria. Empathic personal distress predicted lower social closeness and colder feelings toward this group. Motivational CQ consistently served as the mediator of the relationship between empathy dimensions and social closeness toward Syrian refugees. Our findings reveal the previously unexplored correlations between empathy dimensions and cultural intelligence factors, including the mediational effects in predicting social closeness toward Syrian refugees.

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Interpersonal relationship mindsets and rejection sensitivity across cultures: The role of relational mobility

Cited by 60 publications

References 24 publications

Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances

Low relational mobility leads to greater motivation to understand enemies but not friends and acquaintances

Dialectical beliefs and savings tendency: Opposite patterns in good versus bad current status

Empathy and social closeness toward refugees from Syria: The mediating role of cultural intelligence

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