Lau Ka Hing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-79). / Abstract in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.2 / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.4 / LIST OF TABLES --- p.7 / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.8 / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.9 / ABSTRACT --- p.10 / Chapter CHAPTER 1: --- Research Objectives --- p.12 / Chapter CHAPTER 2: --- Guanxi Conceptualization --- p.14 / Components and Definition --- p.14 / Guanxi´ةs Influence at Operational Level --- p.15 / Chapter CHAPTER 3: --- Guanxi Model on Chinese Interpersonal Behaviors --- p.17 / Conceptualizing Obligations --- p.17 / Obligations as Assumed Affection and Hierarchical --- p.18 / Superiority/Inferiority / Assumed affection --- p.18 / Hierarchical Superiority/Inferiority --- p.19 / Quantifying Obligations into Obligation Demanding Level --- p.20 / Formulating Hypotheses about Obligations --- p.21 / Two Paths in Chinese Interpersonal Behaviors --- p.22 / Guanxi-oriented path --- p.22 / Person-oriented path --- p.23 / The Role of Instrumentality: A Necessary Foundation for Real Affection --- p.24 / Concluding Remarks --- p.25 / Chapter CHAPTER 4: --- Overview of the Present Study --- p.26 / Objectives Review --- p.26 / Scales --- p.26 / Tasks --- p.26 / Resources: Money and Time --- p.27 / Help Directions: Resource Allocation Vs. Request --- p.28 / Mutual Perspectives --- p.28 / Summary --- p.30 / Chapter CHPATER 5: --- Methods --- p.32 / Design of Questionnaire --- p.32 / "First Part of Questionnaire: Tri-psychological Constructs, Hierarchical" --- p.32 / "Superiority/Inferiority, & Obligation Demanding Level Assumed and real affections" --- p.32 / Instrumentality --- p.33 / Hierarchical superiority/inferiority --- p.33 / The obligations demanding level --- p.34 / Scale types --- p.34 / Second Part of Questionnaire: Scenarios --- p.35 / Scenarios --- p.35 / Situational Appropriateness --- p.36 / Stimuli Selection --- p.37 / Pilot Study --- p.37 / Procedure --- p.38 / Data Validation --- p.39 / Participants --- p.40 / Chapter CHAPTER 6: --- Results --- p.41 / Scale Validation --- p.41 / "The Tri-psychological Constructs: Assumed affection, real affection, instrumentality" --- p.41 / Items for Situational Appropriateness --- p.42 / The Obligation Demanding Level --- p.42 / Preliminary Analysis and Correlation --- p.43 / Path Analysis --- p.44 / Hypothesized Model --- p.44 / Model Estimation --- p.45 / Model's interpretation --- p.46 / Verifying Hypotheses --- p.46 / Double negative in the influence of hierarchical superiority/inferiority --- p.48 / Obligations could predict request scenarios' responses only in family guanxi --- p.50 / Significant relationships between assumed and real affections --- p.51 / The modified model --- p.53 / Summary --- p.54 / Chapter CHAPTER 7: --- Discussion --- p.56 / Person-oriented Path --- p.56 / Echoing major findings in western studies --- p.56 / Foundation of real affection in person-oriented path: Instrumentality --- p.57 / Guanxi-oriented Path --- p.58 / Indigenous element in Chinese interpersonal mechanism --- p.58 / Obligation demanding level: Only in resource allocation but not request --- p.58 / Perceiving different help intention when receiving or providing help --- p.58 / Afraid of making reciprocation to the help received --- p.59 / Avoid losing face by not making request --- p.59 / Does hierarchical superiority/inferiority still affect Chinese interpersonal behaviors? --- p.61 / The Dynamic Mechanism between Real and Assumed Affections --- p.63 / Equilibrium Status between Real and Assumed Affections --- p.63 / Interaction Results Caused Distortion to Equilibrium --- p.64 / The Solution to the Distortion: Using a New Guanxi --- p.64 / Evidence and Summary --- p.65 / Concluding Remarks --- p.66 / Chapter CHAPTER 8: --- Limitations and Future Directions --- p.68 / Limitations --- p.68 / Future Directions of Further Studies --- p.70 / REFERENCES --- p.72 / FOOTNOTES --- p.79 / TABLES --- p.80 / FIGURES --- p.104 / APPENDICES --- p.113
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325330 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Contributors | Lau, Ka Hing., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Psychology. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, 162 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Coverage | China |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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