chinese people's self-construal and their social participation in beijing olympic games(bog)...
TRANSCRIPT
Chinese People's Self-Construal and Their Social Participation in Beijing Olympic
Games(BOG)
Bing Wang
Institute of SociologyChinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Beijing, China
March 2, 2011IRiSS, Stanford University
Contents
I 、 Introduction
II 、 Research hypothesis and design
III 、 Method
IV 、 Result
V 、 Conclusion and Discussion
I 、 Introduction
1 、 Chinese people’s extensive participation in BOG
2 、 Three kinds of social participation
3 、 The boundary-permeated self
2 、 Three kinds of social participation
( 1 ) authoritative participation
( 2 ) civil participation
( 3 ) government-motivated participation
Introduction
government-motivated participation
private benefits vs government’s request
Self construal of Chinese people
3 、 The boundary-permeated self
( 1 ) Existed theory on the self
( 2 ) The boundary-permeated self
Existed theory on the self
Independent self and interdependent self (Markus & Kitayama ,1991 )
Self-contained individualism and ensembled individualism (Sampson , 1988 )
“The differential mode of associations” (Fei, 1947/1992)
The boundary-permeated self
Figure 1 The boundary-permeated self
a structure of concentric circles
the permeability of the boundary
higher or lower on moral development level
The boundary-permeated self
include or exclude other people
self as an agent
The boundary-permeated self
The public
The private
the family self
the national self
the world self
Figure 2 A three-level representation of the boundary-permeated self
II 、 Research hypothesis and design
1 、 Hypothesis
2 、 Research design
(1 ) For individuals with high permeable boundary, the extent of participation before and during BOG would depend on their level
of patriotic sentiment.
(2) For individuals with low permeable boundary, the level of patriotism would not affect their participation in the BOG.
1 、 Research hypothesis
2 、 Research Design
Patriotic sentimentPatriotic
sentiment
The boundary-permeated self
High vs low
The boundary-permeated self
High vs low
Participation
More vs less
Participation
More vs less
( 1 ) Independent variable: Patriotism
( 2 ) Moderate variable : the boundary-permeated self
( 3 ) Dependent variables : two attitude indicators: individual focus / national focus one behavior indicator: BOG Participation
III 、 Method
1 、 Respondents
2 、 Measurement
3 、 Research procedure
Quota sampling
1 、 Respondents
1 、 The patriotism scale ( = .88)
2 、 The boundary-permeated self scale ( = .84)
3 、 The involvement scale
--The BOG individual focus scale (= .79)
--The BOG national focus scale ( = .83)
--The BOG participation scale ( = .89)
Measures 2 、 Measurement
1 、 The patriotism scale(example)
Seeing that the Chinese athletes won a lot of gold medals in this Olympic Games made me feel proud of the Chinese people.
I felt extremely proud when I saw our national flag was raised in the Olympic stadiums.
2 、 The boundary-permeated self scale(example)
It is sometimes necessary to think about personal gains (or losses) when conducting public business.
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between public and private matters.
3 、 The BOG individual focus scale( example)
(to involve into BOG, since I can……)
find an opportunity to make money
get close to some celebrities
3 、 The BOG national focus scale( example)
(to involve into BOG, since I can……)
contribute to a big event of China
cheer for the Chinese athletes in close distance on sites
The BOG participation scale( example)
Olympic volunteering services organized by the place where you work
Olympic volunteering services organized by the community
3 、 Research procedure—training the interviewers
3 、 Research procedure—one of the survey communities
3 、 Research procedure—knocking the respondents’ door
3 、 Research procedure—interviewing
3 、 Research procedure—checking the questionnaires
IV 、 Result ( 1)
IV 、 Result ( 2)
Figure 3. The interaction effects of patriotism and boundary-permeated self on BOG national focus and BOG participation.
IV 、 Result ( 3)
Summary of results(1)
Patriotism correlates positively with BOG national focus and BOG participation behavior, but it does not correlate with BOG individual focus
For respondents with high permeability of self boundary, their BOG national focus and BOG participation behavior become more positive as their patriotism increased
Summary of results(2)
However, for respondents with low permeability of self boundary, their BOG participation behavior does not significantly increase as a function of patriotism, although their national focus does.
Thus, the boundary-permeated self could moderate the links between patriotism and BOG national focus and participation.
V 、 Conclusion and Discussion
Main conclusion
The practical implication
The theoretical implication
Main conclusion
Beijing Olympic Games has evoked extensive social participation among Chinese people
This social participation is a kind of government-motivated participation
This kind of government-motivated partipation is mainly based on the self-construal of Chinese people, ie “the boundary-permeated self”
The boundary-permeated self could moderate the links between patriotism and BOG national focus and participation.
The practical implication
The strategy for Chinese government in mobilizing people
The theoretical implication
Revealing the psychological mechanism of government-motivated participation among Chinese people
Conducting further theoretical thinking related with the
boundary-permeated self, interdependent self, and relational self
Thank All of You for Your Attention !