Chatterjee Monischa B, Baumann Nicola, Osborne Danny, Mahmud Shamsul H, Koole Sander L
Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological, University of Trier, Trier, Germany.
School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jun 28;9:1043. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01043. eCollection 2018.
People differ in action vs. state orientation, that is, in the capacity for volitional action control. Prior research has shown that people who are action-rather than state-oriented are better able to perceive and satisfy own motives (e.g., affiliation, achievement, power), which translates into greater psychological well-being (Baumann et al., 2005; Baumann and Quirin, 2006). However, most of the extant literature has been limited to samples from European countries or the US. To address this shortcoming, the present paper investigated the associations between action vs. state orientation, psychological well-being, and anxious style of motive enactment among samples in Germany, New Zealand, and Bangladesh (combined = 862). To examine the consistency of our results across countries, a multi-group structural equation model (SEM) was used to examine the associations between action orientation, anxious motive enactment, and well-being. Subsequent mediation analyses assessed whether anxious motive enactment mediated the relationship between action orientation and well-being across each of the three samples. Across all three cultural groups, action orientation was associated with less anxious motive enactment and higher well-being. Moreover, mediation analyses revealed significant indirect paths from action orientation through less anxious motive enactment to well-being that were similar across the three samples. These findings suggest that individual differences in action vs. state orientation have a similar psychological meaning across Western and non-Western cultures.
人们在行动导向与状态导向方面存在差异，也就是说，在意志行动控制能力方面存在差异。先前的研究表明，行动导向而非状态导向的人能够更好地感知并满足自身动机（例如，归属、成就、权力），这会转化为更高的心理健康水平（鲍曼等人，2005年；鲍曼和奎林，2006年）。然而，大多数现有文献仅限于来自欧洲国家或美国的样本。为了弥补这一不足，本文调查了德国、新西兰和孟加拉国样本（共计862人）中行动导向与状态导向、心理健康以及动机实施的焦虑风格之间的关联。为了检验我们的结果在不同国家间的一致性，我们使用了多组结构方程模型（SEM）来检验行动导向、焦虑动机实施和幸福感之间的关联。随后的中介分析评估了焦虑动机实施是否在三个样本中的每一个样本中都介导了行动导向与幸福感之间的关系。在所有三个文化群体中，行动导向与较少的焦虑动机实施以及更高的幸福感相关。此外，中介分析揭示了从行动导向通过较少的焦虑动机实施到幸福感的显著间接路径，这在三个样本中是相似的。这些发现表明，行动导向与状态导向的个体差异在西方和非西方文化中具有相似的心理意义。
