主催: 日本心理学会第85回大会準備委員会(明星大学)大会長 境敦史
会議名: 日本心理学会第85回大会
回次: 85
開催地: 明星大学
開催日: 2021/09/01 - 2021/09/08
Motivation is a core interest in social, personality, and cultural psychology. Humans around the world share certain core motives:to achieve meaning, to feel in control and agentic, to participate in mutually caring relationships, and others. I’ll present a cultural psychology perspective on motivation and then focus on the motive for control and agency. Control can be broadly defined as aligning the self with one’s environment. Psychologists have studied two control orientations—one in which people influence the environment (originally called primary control), and one in which they adjust, or accommodate to the environment (originally called secondary control). Cultures and contexts shape the experience of control. Influence is more elaborated in individual achievement contexts and North American cultures. Adjustment and accommodation is more elaborated in relationship contexts and Asian cultures. Several studies by my collaborators and other scholars illustrate these themes.