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面子維持に関する日中比較 : 質問紙調査を基に

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Face-Maintenance Between Japanese and Chinese : Based on questionnaire surveys

Japanese (日本語)

Intercultural Studies Review

35

282-303

神戸大学大学院国際文化学研究科

2022-03-18

2022-03-23

The purpose of this study was to develop a face-maintenance scale that reflects both Japanese and Chinese cultural elements and compare face-maintenance consciousness between Japan and China. In Study 1, to develop a scale applicable for Chinese and Japanese, 118 Japanese and 133 Chinese university students were asked to evaluate existing items related to maintaining face and to write about how they maintain their own face and the face of others in their daily life. In Study 2, 192 Japanese and 285 Chinese were asked to rate the 32-item face maintenance scale developed in Study 1, to examine the reliability and validity of the scale, and to examine the relationship between face-maintenance consciousness and cultural self-construal. In Study 3, we examined the relationship between face-maintenance consciousness, cultural self-construal, and need for approval among 129 Japanese and 155 Chinese working adults. Results indicated that (1) Chinese people tend to be more conscious of maintaining their own face and others’face than Japanese people. (2) In both Japan and China,“interdependent construal of self was positively correlated with“other-face maintenance”;“self-face maintenance”and“other-face maintenance”were positively correlated with the desire to avoid rejection. (3) In Japan, there was a positive correlation between “self-face maintenance”and“desire to win praise”, but this relationship was not found in China. These results suggest that the 32-items face-maintenance scale developed in this study is generally reliable and valid for Chinese and Japanese.

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