Interpersonal Relationships

Flashcards about Interpersonal Relationships, Culture, Community and Global Citizenship.

Culture and Interpersonal Relationships

Cross-cultural interaction and intercultural relationships are increasingly common in universities due to international students and study-abroad programs.

Cultural Assumptions

When people use their own cultural assumptions to interpret behaviours of those from different cultural backgrounds misunderstandings can arise.

Intercultural Communication

Crucial for effectively navigating cross-cultural interactions. Enables people to approach interactions with curiosity, empathy, and openness to diverse perspectives.

Explicit Social Support

Support directly recruited from others via disclosure of one’s needs.

Implicit Social Support

Emotional comfort derived indirectly from close others, without discussing or disclosing one’s problems.

East Asian Social Support Preferences

East Asians tend to prefer implicit over explicit support, as explicit support has relational costs, including burdening others or losing face.

Culture of Honour

A complex set of beliefs, attitudes, and norms about the importance of personal reputation.

Honour

The value of a person in his own eyes, but also in the eyes of his society.

Intercultural Competence

Part of becoming interculturally competent means increasing our knowledge and awareness of the underlying sets of assumptions that we use to interpret others’ and our own behaviors.

CuPS Approach

Culture x Person x Situation approach. Jointly consider these three factors. Culture helps define psychological situations and provide specific meanings to behaviours. Individual differences are important because people vary in the extent to which they internalise or endorse (or reject) a culture’s ideal. Situations are important because they provide psychological meanings to the actor.