Need for approval from others and face concerns as predictors of interpersonal conflict outcome in 29 cultural groups

Lun VM 1 , Smith PB 2 , Grigoryan L 3 , Torres C 4 , Papastylianou A 5 , Lopukhova OG 6 Show all authors , Sunar D 7 , Easterbrook MJ 2 , Koc Y 8 , Selim HA 9 , Chobthamkit P 10 , Chaleeraktrakoon T 10 , Gul P 8 , Perez Floriano L 11 , Diaz-Loving R 12 , Kwantes CT 13 , Yuki M 14 , Ogusu N 14 , van Osch Y 15 , Mendes Texeira ML 16 , Hu P 17 , Abbas A 18 , Tripodi D 19 , Lay S 20 , Efremova M 21 , Hassan B 22 , Ahmad AH 23 , Al-Bayati A 24 , Anderson J 25 , Cross SE 26 , Delfino GI 27 , Gamsakhurdia V 28 , Gavreliuc A 29 , Gavreliuc D 29 , Gunsoy C 30 , Díaz Rivera PE 12 , Hakobjanyan A 31

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
  • 2 School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
  • 3 Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK
  • 4 Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
  • 5 Department of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 6 Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
  • 7 Department of Psychology, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 8 Department of Social Psychology, Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands
  • 9 Department of Psychology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 10 Department of Psychology, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand
  • 11 School of Psychology, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
  • 12 Faculty of Psychology, Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 13 Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
  • 14 Department of Behavioral Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  • 15 Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
  • 16 Department of Postgraduate Business Administration, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 17 Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, P. R. China
  • 18 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
  • 19 Private Practice, Gioia Tauro, Italy
  • 20 Centro de Medicion MIDE UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • 21 Center for Socio-Cultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
  • 22 Department of Psychology, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 23 School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia
  • 24 Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, USA
  • 25 School of Health and Behavioral Science, Australian Catholic University and Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  • 26 Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
  • 27 Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Spain
  • 28 Department of Psychological Anthropology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 29 Department of Psychology, Teacher Training Institute, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
  • 30 Department of Psychology, Rhode Island University, South Kingstown, RI, USA
  • 31 Department of Personality Psychology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
Int J Psychol, 2023 Jan 27.
PMID: 36707726 DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12895

Abstract

The extent to which culture moderates the effects of need for approval from others on a person's handling of interpersonal conflict was investigated. Students from 24 nations rated how they handled a recent interpersonal conflict, using measures derived from face-negotiation theory. Samples varied in the extent to which they were perceived as characterised by the cultural logics of dignity, honour, or face. It was hypothesised that the emphasis on harmony within face cultures would reduce the relevance of need for approval from others to face-negotiation concerns. Respondents rated their need for approval from others and how much they sought to preserve their own face and the face of the other party during the conflict. Need for approval was associated with concerns for both self-face and other-face. However, as predicted, the association between need for approval from others and concern for self-face was weaker where face logic was prevalent. Favourable conflict outcome was positively related to other-face and negatively related to self-face and to need for approval from others, but there were no significant interactions related to prevailing cultural logics. The results illustrate how particular face-threatening factors can moderate the distinctive face-concerns earlier found to characterise individualistic and collectivistic cultural groups.

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