Chishima Yuta, Nagamine Masato
Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 3058572 Japan.
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
J Happiness Stud. 2021;22(8):3457-3478. doi: 10.1007/s10902-021-00375-4. Epub 2021 Mar 8.
Some individuals experience the feeling that they have become a person they had not anticipated. The life path they had expected to take is not consonant with the one they are taking in reality. This perception of "off-course" in identity and self-direction is referred to as derailment. Although previous studies have postulated and demonstrated that derailment causes a low level of well-being, no studies have examined its existence and effect across cultures. We hypothesized that East Asians (Japanese) are less vulnerable to feeling derailed than North Americans (Canadians/Americans), and that those Japanese who feel derailed do not necessarily experience long-term damage to their well-being. Two correlational studies and one longitudinal study with a one-year interval supported these hypotheses and also demonstrated metric invariance of the Derailment Scale between countries. We discuss that these findings may be explained by East Asian's dialectical thinking, in which the perception of one's life direction is flexible.
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有些人会感觉自己变成了一个未曾预料到的人。他们预期的人生道路与现实中所走的道路不一致。这种在身份认同和自我导向方面“偏离轨道”的认知被称为脱轨。尽管先前的研究已经假定并证明脱轨会导致幸福感较低，但尚无研究考察其在不同文化中的存在情况和影响。我们假设东亚人（日本人）比北美人（加拿大人/美国人）更不容易感到脱轨，并且那些感到脱轨的日本人不一定会对其幸福感造成长期损害。两项相关研究和一项间隔一年的纵向研究支持了这些假设，并且还证明了脱轨量表在不同国家之间的度量不变性。我们讨论这些发现可能可以用东亚人的辩证思维来解释，在这种思维中，对人生方向的认知是灵活的。
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