Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue (한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제)

Korean Psychological Association of Culture and Social Issues (한국문화및사회문제심리학회)
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Cultural Self-Orientation and Rejection of Requests

문화성향에 따른 거절 반응과 예측의 차이

  • Soeun Yim (Department of Psychology, Sungshin Women's University) ;
  • Hyekyung Park (Department of Psychology, Sungshin Women's University)
  • 임소은 (성신여자대학교 심리학과) ;
  • 박혜경 (성신여자대학교 심리학과)
  • Received : 2015.04.20
  • Accepted : 2015.05.30
  • Published : 2015.05.31
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Abstract

The present study examined whether individuals would respond differently, as a function of cultural self-orientations, when their requests were rejected. Also examined was whether individuals with different cultural self-orientations would predict differently how their interaction partner would respond when they rejected his or her request. Furthermore, it was investigated whether experimentally induced perspective-taking would influence responses to rejection and predictions of responses to rejection. It was found that responses to rejection as well as predictions of responses to rejection varied as a function of individual's independent self-orientation and perspective-taking. However, no significant effects were found with regard to interdependent self-orientation. Based on these results, the implications that cultural self-orientations have for request rejection and social behavior in general are discussed, and future directions are suggested.

본 연구에서는 개인의 문화성향에 따라 첫째, 누군가에게 부탁을 거절당했을 때 다르게 반응하는지, 둘째, 자신이 누군가의 부탁을 거절했을 때 상대방이 보일 반응을 다르게 예측하는지 검증하였다. 더 나아가, 타인의 관점을 고려하도록 실험적으로 유도되었을 때 문화성향에 따라 거절에 대한 반응과 예측이 달라지는지 살펴보았다. 이를 위하여 타인의 관점을 고려하도록 하는 조건과 객관성을 유지하도록 하는 조건에서 거절당하는 입장에 섰을 때 자신이 보일 부정적인 반응과 자신이 거절하는 입장일 때 상대방이 보일 부정적인 반응을 예상하여 평정하도록 하였다. 연구 결과, 독립적 문화성향의 수준과 조망수용 여부에 따라 거절 당하였을 때와 거절하였을 때 부정적 반응과 예측이 달라짐을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 상호의존적 문화성향에 따른 차이는 관찰되지 않았다. 이러한 결과들을 바탕으로 문화성향이 거절 행동에 미칠 잠재적인 영향을 논하였으며, 후속연구 방향을 제안하였다.

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