Cultural Differences In The Construal Of Suffering And The Covid-19 Pandemic
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE(2021)
摘要
The present research examines how suffering is construed across cultures. Study 1 (N-1= 264;N-2= 745) asked participants to provide free associations for suffering. Chinese individuals generated more positive associations than did Euro-Canadians. Study 2 (N= 522) had participants create a hypothetical potion of suffering to represent what people would experience while suffering. Chinese participants added more positive ingredients and fewer negative ingredients than Euro-Canadians did. How would cultural differences in the construal of suffering matter in a real-life negative situation? Study 3 (N= 608) showed that Chinese participants generated a greater proportion of potential positive outcomes for the COVID-19 outbreak and reported more positive affect during the pandemic than did Euro-Canadians. Thus, Chinese construe suffering more positively than Euro-Canadians. These findings are consistent with previous research on cultural differences in dialectical thinking and lay theory of change and have implications for coping and resilience.
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culture, suffering, dialectical thinking, lay theory of change, COVID-19 pandemic
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