Help-seeking attitudes in Chinese: the role of personal self-esteem, collective self-esteem and loss of face

Chinese college students;interpersonal paradigm;self-esteem;loss of face;help-seeking

Wang, Zhenni ; Hunter ; Carla D.

关键词: Chinese college students;    interpersonal paradigm;    self-esteem;    loss of face;    help-seeking;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

The study examine the role of agentic (personal self-esteem) and communal (collective self-esteem, loss of face) needs in predicting help-seeking attitudes in U.S.-born and mainland-born Chinese.One-hundred and sixty participants, of which 81 (60.6%) reported being born in the U.S. and 79 (49.4%) reported being born in mainland China filled out a set of questionnaires. Path analysis revealed the relationships between agentic and communal needs and help-seeking attitudes differ as a function of socializing context (i.e., birth place).However, agentic and communal needs were not expressed in a manner that was consistent with the socialization context in the hypothesized way.Specifically, collective self-esteem and face influenced the attitude of U.S.-born Chinese while personal self-esteem as well as collective self-esteem mattered to the mainland-born Chinese.Overall, there is not a straightforward single pattern that accounted for help-seeking attitudes for U.S.-born Chinese and Mainland-born Chinese.Implications of these findings on Chinese individual’s help-seeking attitudes are discussed.