Building life satisfaction through attachment to mother and beliefs about the world: social axioms as mediators in two cultural groups.

This study examines the role of three dimensions of social axioms (religiosity, social cynicism, and reward for application) as mediators of the relationship between insecure attachment styles to mother and the life satisfaction of Hong Kong Chinese and Americans. Participants were 143 university st...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 223 - 240
Autores principales: Mak, Miranda Chi Kuan, Han, Yvonne Ming Yee, You, Jianing, Jin, Mingxuan, Bond, Michael Harris
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2011
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=59214616&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ssf
    uiTerm: 59214616
    longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        13674676
        36K
      jtl: Mental Health, Religion & Culture
      issn: 13674676
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Mar2011
      vid: 14
      iid: 3
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    artinfo:
      ui:
        59214616
        10.1080/13674670903456455
      ppf: 223
      ppct: 17
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: Building life satisfaction through attachment to mother and beliefs about the world: social axioms as mediators in two cultural groups.
      aug:
        au:
          Mak, Miranda Chi Kuan
          Han, Yvonne Ming Yee
          You, Jianing
          Jin, Mingxuan
          Bond, Michael Harris
        affil:
          Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, SAR, Hong Kong
          Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, SAR, Hong Kong
          Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR, Hong Kong
      su:
        United States
        Hong Kong (China)
        Adult children
        Analysis of variance
        Anxiety
        Attitude (Psychology)
        College students
        Culture
        Mother-child relationship
        Personality
        Religion
        Sex distribution
        Chi-squared test
        Comparative studies
        Statistical correlation
        Life
        Multivariate analysis
        Regression analysis
        Scale analysis (Psychology)
      sug:
        subj:
          Adult children
          Analysis of variance
          Anxiety
          Attitude (Psychology)
          College students
          Culture
          Mother-child relationship
          Personality
          Religion
          Sex distribution
          United States
          Hong Kong (China)
          Chi-squared test
          Comparative studies
          Statistical correlation
          Life
          Multivariate analysis
          Regression analysis
          Scale analysis (Psychology)
      keyword:
        attachment to mother
        life satisfaction
        social axioms
        attachment to mother
        life satisfaction
        social axioms
      ab: This study examines the role of three dimensions of social axioms (religiosity, social cynicism, and reward for application) as mediators of the relationship between insecure attachment styles to mother and the life satisfaction of Hong Kong Chinese and Americans. Participants were 143 university students from Hong Kong and 187 from the United States. As predicted, attachment-avoidant individuals had higher levels of social cynicism and lower levels of reward for application, while attachment-anxious individuals showed higher levels of social cynicism. Both social cynicism and reward for application mediated the link between insecure maternal attachment styles and life satisfaction, confirming the position that experiences with mothering shape beliefs about the world that in turn shape life outcomes. Anxious and avoidant maternal attachment styles correlated differently with religiosity, social cynicism, and reward for application in the two cultures, suggesting a distinctive role for beliefs about religious institutions and a Supreme Being for Americans.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: N
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N