Culture moderates the link between perceived obligation and biological health risk: Evidence for culturally distinct pathways to achieving positive health outcomes

• Main Authors: HARTANTO, Andree, LAU, Yee-Man Ivy, YONG, Jose C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Culture; Perceived obligation; Goal disengagement; Inflammation and cardiovascular risk; Personal control; Stress; United States; Japan; Health Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3087; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4344/viewcontent/Culture_moderates_link_health_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Rationale: Although perceived obligations to meet the expectations of family, friends, and society can be detrimental to physical health, much research in this area has thus far been conducted exclusively on Western samples. Cross-cultural research importantly suggests that positive health can be de...