Social axioms as social foundations of locus-of-hope: A study in three Asian cultural groups

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Personality and Individual Differences

Volume

95

First Page

110

Last Page

113

Publication Date

6-1-2016

Abstract

Are generalized beliefs about the social world (social axioms) related to loci-of-hope? Three hypotheses are proposed based on the instrumentality and ego-defensiveness functions of social axioms. Results from 843 participants from three Asian groups generally support the hypotheses: (a) reward for application predicts internal, external-family, and external-peer loci-of-hope, (b) fate control and religiosity predict external-spiritual locus-of-hope, and (c) social cynicism negatively predicts internal locus-of-hope. Although there are minor differences across cultural groups, results show how hope may derive from generalized social beliefs. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.046

Disciplines

Psychology

Keywords

Hope; Social psychology

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