Choi Jeong Ha, Miyamoto Yuri, Ryff Carol D
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2020 Sep;46(9):1378-1391. doi: 10.1177/0146167220905712. Epub 2020 Feb 15.
Functional limitations-difficulty in carrying out activities of daily living-have been linked to poorer well-being in Western cultures. This might be partly due to the lower personal control associated with functional limitations. However, compared with the West, in Asian cultural contexts (e.g., Japan) where agency and control are based less predominantly on individual attributes, the link between functional limitations and well-being may be weaker. Using cross-sectional probability samples from the United States and Japan (Study 1), functional limitations were associated with lower well-being in both cultures, though the association was weaker in Japan than in the United States and personal control played a mediating role. Furthermore, analyses of longitudinal data (Study 2) showed the cross-cultural patterns generally consistent with the cross-sectional analyses of Study 1, though the cultural moderation was found for fewer well-being measures. Such findings enrich our understanding of how health status and well-being are related across cultures.
功能限制——即进行日常生活活动存在困难——在西方文化中与较差的幸福感相关联。这可能部分归因于与功能限制相关的个人控制力较低。然而，与西方相比，在亚洲文化背景（如日本）中，能动性和控制力较少主要基于个体属性，功能限制与幸福感之间的联系可能较弱。利用来自美国和日本的横断面概率样本（研究1），功能限制在两种文化中均与较低的幸福感相关，尽管在日本这种关联比在美国弱，且个人控制力起到了中介作用。此外，对纵向数据的分析（研究2）表明，跨文化模式总体上与研究1的横断面分析一致，尽管在较少的幸福感指标上发现了文化调节作用。这些发现丰富了我们对不同文化中健康状况与幸福感如何相关的理解。
