Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology
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Vol.19 No.4
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of emotion coping style and emotion awareness on subjective well-being in later life. Participants fell into three age groups (Elderly N=187, Middle-aged N=245, Young N=238). To investigate the emotion coping styles used in later life, scales measuring coping styles were developed and age differences were examined. Compared to other age groups, the elderly group did not show any differences in using problem focused coping and cognitive coping. They did, however, use self-defensive coping more often than others. We also examined age differences in emotion awareness. Compared to other age groups, the elderly group was higher in mood repair, the middle-aged group was higher in emotional clarity, and the young youth group was higher in attention to emotion. We examined the effect of emotion coping style and emotion awareness on the subjective well-being using structural equation modeling. We found self-defensive coping and mood repair played important roles in maintaining subjective well-being in old age. The implications of using self-defensive coping and mood repair were discussed in terms of 'self-protective approach to emotion' in later life. Finally, the contributions and limitations of the current study was also discussed.
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When understanding other people, individuals differ in the extent to which they weigh the target person's inner (e.g., mood) versus external (e.g., behavior) aspects of the self. This epistemological value placed on the overt versus covert aspects of the self is significantly related with the type of personal theory of happiness held by each individual. Those who place a premium on the overt aspects of the self tend to cherish conditions of happiness that are relatively visible and easily observable by other people (e.g., social status). Interestingly, the tendency to emphasize external conditions of happiness is related inversely with actual levels of subjective well-being. Implications for research on lay theories of self and happiness are discussed in the context of culture.
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Individuals' beliefs about the association between blood types (A, B, O, AB) and personality was measured among 204 college students. Participants also rated their own personality on two different measures-the Big 5 inventory and a set of personality traits most frequently associated with each of the 4 blood types (stereotypic traits). Consistent with past research, no meaningful relationship emerged between the Big 5 traits and blood type. Interestingly, however, self-ratings on the stereotypic traits revealed a self-fulfilling pattern. Those who firmly believed in the validity of the blood type stereotypes were more likely to report his/her trait in a stereotype-consistent direction (e.g., a blood type A person reports that she indeed is very “timid”). As expected, such stereotype-confirming tendency was not observed among the skeptics of this stereotype. Overall, the findings suggest that having a strong faith in the blood type stereotype might have a self-confirming effect on self-reports of personality.
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The present study is dealing the influence of independent-interdependent self-construal on social anxiety and the mediational effects of self-esteem and public self-consciousness in South Korea and Japan. Participants were 164 university students in Korea and 152 university students in Japan. As a result, the goodness of fitness of the proposed model was acceptable. More specifically, in both countries independent self-construal was found to have inhibitory influence on social anxiety indirectly through self-esteem and interdependent self-construal was found to have facilitatory influence on social anxiety indirectly through public self-consciousness. The results also showed that in Korea the influence of self-esteem on public self-consciousness is significant, but in Japan that influence is not significant. Lastly, the results were interpreted as suggesting that self-esteem can play a moderational role in the relation between public self-consciousness and social anxiety.