Tanaka Rina, Zheng Shaofeng, Ishii Keiko
Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2023 Aug 3;14:1202729. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1202729. eCollection 2023.
This research explores how culture influences the motivations underlying explicit (emotional and instrumental) and implicit (companionship and attentiveness) support provision. Two studies ( = 1,106) compared the responses of European Americans and Japanese individuals to a close other's stressful event. The results showed that European Americans were more likely than Japanese to provide explicit support and more motivated to increase the close other's self-esteem and feeling of closeness. Conversely, Japanese individuals were more likely to provide attentiveness support, motivated by concern for an entire group and a friend. These findings support the motivation as a mediator hypothesis. On the other hand, the culture as a moderator hypothesis applied to the association between concern for an entire group motivation and implicit support provision. Specifically, concern for an entire group motivation predicted companionship support provision only in Japanese, while it predicted attentiveness support provision mainly in European Americans.
本研究探讨文化如何影响显性（情感性和工具性）和隐性（陪伴性和专注性）支持提供背后的动机。两项研究（N = 1106）比较了欧裔美国人和日本人对亲密他人压力事件的反应。结果表明，欧裔美国人比日本人更有可能提供显性支持，并且更有动力提高亲密他人的自尊和亲密感。相反，日本人更有可能提供专注性支持，其动机是对整个群体和朋友的关心。这些发现支持了动机作为中介的假设。另一方面，文化作为调节变量的假设适用于对整个群体的关心动机与隐性支持提供之间的关联。具体而言，对整个群体的关心动机仅在日本人中预测陪伴性支持的提供，而在欧裔美国人中主要预测专注性支持的提供。
