Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi,Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Cogn Emot. 2011 Sep;25(6):1121-30. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2010.516962. Epub 2011 May 24.
The purpose of this study was to explore cultural similarities and differences in regret, focusing on distinctions between interpersonal and self-situations, and between action and inaction regrets. Japanese and American undergraduates were asked to describe regrets experienced in interpersonal and self-situations. We found that both situational and cultural contexts influenced the likelihood of regretting inactions over actions. Participants were more likely to recall inaction regrets in self-situations than in interpersonal situations, and that the likelihood of recalling inaction regrets was more pronounced for Americans than for Japanese. Furthermore, we examined the intensity of the regret. Whereas American students experienced regret as intense as that of Japanese students in self-situations, Japanese students experienced regret more strongly than American students in interpersonal situations. Detailed content analysis also showed that individuals experienced regret in ways consistent with cultural values. The situational and cultural grounding of regret is discussed.
本研究旨在探讨遗憾在文化上的相似和差异，重点关注人际情境和自我情境、行动和不作为遗憾之间的区别。要求日本和美国的本科生描述他们在人际情境和自我情境中所经历的遗憾。我们发现，情境和文化背景都影响了对不作为和作为的遗憾的可能性。参与者更有可能回忆起自我情境中的不作为遗憾，而不是人际情境中的遗憾，而且美国人比日本人更有可能回忆起不作为遗憾。此外，我们还考察了遗憾的强烈程度。虽然美国学生在自我情境中体验到的遗憾与日本学生一样强烈，但日本学生在人际情境中体验到的遗憾比美国学生更强烈。详细的内容分析还表明，个体以与文化价值观一致的方式体验遗憾。本文讨论了遗憾的情境和文化基础。
