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System-justification For the Korean Young Generation: With Focus on the Experiences of Meaning Discrepancy and Their Psychological Consequences

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2017, v.31 no.4, pp.247-275
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2017.31.4.012




& (2017). System-justification For the Korean Young Generation: With Focus on the Experiences of Meaning Discrepancy and Their Psychological Consequences. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 31(4), 247-275, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2017.31.4.012

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine system-justification phenomena for the Korean young generation. To this end, we conducted face to face depth-interview with 20 adults (Mage= 28.1, 13 Males, 7 Females). Drawing on semi-structured questionnaire, we explored interviewees's psychological discrepant experiences between ideal and real daily life, figured out their representation of social system shaped by their daily experiences, and the psychological process to resolve these psychological discrepancies. The concepts derived from coding process of grounded theory were categorized into four domains:　experience of discrepancy, representation of society, emotional and behavioral results. Personal experiences causing meaning discrepancy are categorized by three perspectives: loss of self-worth, frustration to life goal and disappointment by real life. The three categories, which have affected these experiences of discrepancy, were extracted from the representations of Korean society such as right answer society, distrust society, and stress society. Suppressing emotional response to experience of discrepancy and negative expecting emotion such as anxiety, helplessness of change appeared as results of the dynamic interaction between of personal experiences and social representations. These emotional reactions leaded the interviewees to seek personal control within existing system or to justify system avoiding actions for social change, even though they are critical against current social system. These reactions correspond with system justification theory and yet concrete contents of the system and operation causing such reactions represent specific context effects of Korean society. Given these findings, we argued the necessity of social-cultural and context-centered approaches to enrich the research of system-justification proposing emotion-control model as a system-justification mechanism and furthermore, discussed usefulness and necessity of qualitative study to expand research of system-justification in context of Korean society.

keywords
system-justification, emotion-control-model, grounded theory, qualitative study, conservative shift, 체제정당화, 정서조절 모델, 근거이론방법, 질적 연구, 청년보수화, 헬조선

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