Differentiating Shame and Guilt among Chinese and American College Students: “Hurt Self versus Hurt Other” Distinction and Transferred Emotion

Mingyi Qian; Wei Dong; Aimin Wang; Jun Gao

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Differentiating Shame and Guilt among Chinese and American College Students: “Hurt Self versus Hurt Other” Distinction and Transferred Emotion

Mingyi Qian 1 *,Wei Dong 1,Aimin Wang 2,Jun Gao 1 #

1.Department of Psychology, Peking University

2.EDP, Miami University

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Funding: 教育部博士点基金（No.20050001010）

Opened online:14 January 2009

Accepted by: none

Citation: Mingyi Qian,Wei Dong,Aimin Wang.Differentiating Shame and Guilt among Chinese and American College Students: “Hurt Self versus Hurt Other” Distinction and Transferred Emotion[OL]. [14 January 2009] http://en.paper.edu.cn/en_releasepaper/content/27794

The purpose of this study is (1) to examine whether the “hurt self versus hurt other” hypothesis, differentiates shame and guilt or not, and (2) to compare and contrast the cultural similarities and differences of these two emotions among college students in China and the United States. Stories were presented in four types of scenarios as “self hurts other”, “self hurts self”, “self-related-other hurts other” and “other hurts self” in this study. The findings indicated that: (1) Participants from two countries did not differ in the overall emotional responses on the shame and guilt scenarios; (2) The hypothesis that “hurt self versus hurt other” differentiate shame and guilt was supported in Chinese sample but not completely supported in US sample; and (3) Chinese participants have a stronger tendency to experience transferred guilt than that of American participants in “self-related-other hurt other” scenarios.

Keywords:shame;guilt;self-construal;Chinese college students;American college students

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