Social axioms as social foundations of locus-of-hope: A study in three Asian cultural groups

• Main Authors: Bernardo, Allan Benedict I., Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Hope; Social psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3446; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4448/type/native/viewcontent/j.paid.2016.02.046
• Institution: De La Salle University

Are generalized beliefs about the social world (social axioms) related to loci-of-hope? Three hypotheses are proposed based on the instrumentality and ego-defensiveness functions of social axioms. Results from 843 participants from three Asian groups generally support the hypotheses: (a) reward for application predicts internal, external-family, and external-peer loci-of-hope, (b) fate control and religiosity predict external-spiritual locus-of-hope, and (c) social cynicism negatively predicts internal locus-of-hope. Although there are minor differences across cultural groups, results show how hope may derive from generalized social beliefs. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.