The Dynamics of Face Loss Following Interpersonal Harm for Chinese and Americans  

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Bond, Michael Harris

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 42 no. 1 (Jan. 2011), page 25-38.
Topik: Face Loss; Power; Norm; Culture
Fulltext: JCCP_42_01_25.pdf (389.1KB)

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Face concerns arise in any encounter where one’s credibility as a social actor is questioned by the flow of interpersonal exchanges. Being the target of another’s harmful acts raises the question of one’s deservingness for that harm, thereby bringing one’s face into question. The present study tests whether Hong Kong Chinese are more sensitive to the consequent loss of their own face than are Americans, when targeted during interpersonal encounters. It addresses this question by assessing whether two factors predicting face loss are universal or culturally specific in their impacts. The factors are loss of relative power following the harm doing and degree of norm violation characterizing the harm doing. The results showed that loss of relative power in the relationship by the target vis-à-vis the perpetrator predicted face loss for Americans, but not for Hong Kong Chinese. Although greater norm violation led to more face loss in both groups, the linkage between the two constructs was stronger for Hong Kong Chinese than for Americans. The culturally derived personality variables of horizontal-vertical individualism-collectivism were, however, unable to unpackage either cultural difference in linkage strength. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed, and suggestions are offered for increasing the scope of this basic model in explaining face loss following interpersonal harm.

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