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Kirchner-Häusler A, Schönbrodt FD, Uskul AK, Vignoles VL, Rodríguez-Bailón R, Castillo VA, Cross SE, Gezici-Yalçın M, Harb C, Husnu S, Ishii K, Karamaouna P, Kafetsios K, Kateri E, Matamoros-Lima J, Miniesy R, Na J, Özkan Z, Pagliaro S, Psaltis C, Rabie D, Teresi M, Uchida Y. Proximal and distal honor fit and subjective well-being in the Mediterranean region. J Pers 2024; 92:38-54. [PMID: 36536608 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2022] [Revised: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE People's psychological tendencies are attuned to their sociocultural context and culture-specific ways of being, feeling, and thinking are believed to assist individuals in successfully navigating their environment. Supporting this idea, a stronger "fit" with one's cultural environment has often been linked to positive psychological outcomes. The current research expands the cultural, conceptual, and methodological space of cultural fit research by exploring the link between well-being and honor, a central driver of social behavior in the Mediterranean region. METHOD Drawing on a multi-national sample from eight countries circum-Mediterranean (N = 2257), we examined the relationship between cultural fit in honor and well-being at the distal level (fit with one's perceived society) using response surface analysis (RSA) and at the proximal level (fit with one's university gender group) using profile analysis. RESULTS We found positive links between fit and well-being in both distal (for some, but not all, honor facets) and proximal fit analyses (across all honor facets). Furthermore, most fit effects in the RSA were complemented with positive level effects of the predictors, with higher average honor levels predicting higher well-being. CONCLUSIONS Our findings highlight the interplay between individual and environmental factors in honor as well as the important role honor plays in well-being in the Mediterranean region.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alexander Kirchner-Häusler
- Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
- Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Psychology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Department of Psychology, Doha Institute, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Psychology, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus
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- Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Economics, British University of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Psychology, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Psychology, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University Business School, Nottingham, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Uskul AK, Kirchner-Häusler A, Vignoles VL, Rodriguez-Bailón R, Castillo VA, Cross SE, Yalçın MG, Harb C, Husnu S, Ishii K, Jin S, Karamaouna P, Kafetsios K, Kateri E, Matamoros-Lima J, Liu D, Miniesy R, Na J, Özkan Z, Pagliaro S, Psaltis C, Rabie D, Teresi M, Uchida Y. Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies. J Pers Soc Psychol 2023; 125:471-495. [PMID: 37126053 DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Social science research has highlighted "honor" as a central value driving social behavior in Mediterranean societies, which requires individuals to develop and protect a sense of their personal self-worth and their social reputation, through assertiveness, competitiveness, and retaliation in the face of threats. We predicted that members of Mediterranean societies may exhibit a distinctive combination of independent and interdependent social orientation, self-construal, and cognitive style, compared to more commonly studied East Asian and Anglo-Western cultural groups. We compared participants from eight Mediterranean societies (Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus [Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities], Lebanon, Egypt) to participants from East Asian (Korea, Japan) and Anglo-Western (the United Kingdom, the United States) societies, using six implicit social orientation indicators, an eight-dimensional self-construal scale, and four cognitive style indicators. Compared with both East Asian and Anglo-Western samples, samples from Mediterranean societies distinctively emphasized several forms of independence (relative intensity of disengaging [vs. engaging] emotions, happiness based on disengaging [vs. engaging] emotions, dispositional [vs. situational] attribution style, self-construal as different from others, self-directed, self-reliant, self-expressive, and consistent) and interdependence (closeness to in-group [vs. out-group] members, self-construal as connected and committed to close others). Our findings extend previous insights into patterns of cultural orientation beyond commonly examined East-West comparisons to an understudied world region. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, American University of Beirut
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- Department of Psychology, Eastern Mediterranean University
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- Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Nagoya University
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- School of Psychology, University of Kent
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- Department of Economics, British University in Egypt
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara
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- Department of Economics, British University in Egypt
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara
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- Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University
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Ergün N, Özkan Z, Griffiths MD. Social Media Addiction and Poor Mental Health: Examining the Mediating Roles of Internet Addiction and Phubbing. Psychol Rep 2023:332941231166609. [PMID: 36972903 DOI: 10.1177/00332941231166609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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Many researchers have examined the potential detrimental role of problematic social media use (often referred as 'social media addiction') on mental health. The present study investigated how social media addiction is associated with three components of mental health: depression, anxiety, and stress. In addition, structural equation modeling was used to test the mediating roles of internet addiction and phubbing among a sample of young adults (N = 603). Results showed that social media addiction was associated with poorer mental health via internet addiction and phubbing. More specifically, associations between social media addiction and stress, and social media addiction and anxiety were explained by both internet addiction and phubbing. The association between social media addiction and depression was explained by internet addiction only. These results remained consistent after controlling for gender, age, frequency of internet use, frequency of social media use, and frequency of smartphone use. These findings extend the extant literature by providing evidence for the dual roles of internet addiction and phubbing in explaining the relationship between social media addiction and poor mental health. Social media addiction did not directly influence poorer mental health but did via internet addiction and phubbing. Therefore, greater awareness of the inter-relationships between technology-based behaviors and their impact on mental health is needed among a wide range of stakeholders, and these inter-relationships need considering in the prevention and treatment of technology-based disorders.
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- Naif Ergün
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, 187473Mardin Artuklu University, Mardin, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Literature, 187474Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey
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- International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, 6122Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
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Özkan Z, Aksoy N, Emir S, Kanat BH, Gönen AN, Yazar FM, Çimen AR. Investigation of the relationship between serum hormones and pilonidal sinus disease: a cross-sectional study. Colorectal Dis 2014; 16:311-4. [PMID: 24330514 DOI: 10.1111/codi.12520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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AIM The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine whether pilonidal sinus is influenced by hormones that stimulate body hair growth. Currently, there are insufficient data on the presence of hormonal abnormalities in pilonidal sinus disease. METHOD Hormone levels (including those of thyroid-stimulating hormone, follicular-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, prolactin, progesterone, oestradiol, testosterone, cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone) were measured in 39 patients with pilonodal sinus presenting between February 2013 and March 2013. The results were compared with those of 39 volunteers without this disease. RESULTS There was no statistically significant difference between men with pilonidal sinus disease (P > 0.05). The prolactin levels of women with pilonoidal sinus were significantly higher than those of women in the control group (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION Raised serum prolactin levels in women may be related to the development of pilonidal sinus disease.
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- Z Özkan
- General Surgery Clinic, Elazığ Training and Research Hospital, Elazığ, Turkey
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