Does the Regional Multicultural Experience Weaken the Cultural Confidence in Hometown? The Compensatory Role of Cultural Attachment

Zhou Ting; Bi Chongzeng

doi:10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20230513

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Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5) : 1131-1140. DOI: 10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20230513

Social，Personality & Organizational Psychology

Does the Regional Multicultural Experience Weaken the Cultural Confidence in Hometown? The Compensatory Role of Cultural Attachment

Zhou Ting^1,2, Bi Chongzeng¹

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Multicultural experience refers to the multicultural experience generated by individuals leaving their hometown and living in other cities. Cultural attachment is the sense of security generated by establishing an emotional connection with cultural groups (Hong et al., 2013). Cultural confidence is a positive emotional experience that people give full affirmation of their own culture based on understanding it (Zhou & Bi, 2020). After reviewing the relevant literature, it is found that cross-cultural multicultural experience will change individuals' attitudes towards their hometown culture (Lee et al., 2018; Repke & Benet-Martinez, 2017), but it was not clear whether individuals' cross-cultural experience in the same country/region would affect their cultural attitude toward their hometown. This research explored the relationship between regional multicultural experience and hometown cultural attachment and hometown cultural confidence in the context of domestic population migration through 3 studies.
In Study 1, Multicultural Experience Scale, Cultural Attachment Scale (Hong et al., 2013), and Cultural confidence Scale (Zhou & Bi, 2020) were used to assess the relationship between multicultural experience, cultural attachment, and cultural confidence among 222 participants online. In study 2, 149 participants were recruited from a university, and an implicit association paradigm (Karpinski & Steinman, 2006) was added to measure implicit cultural confidence. In study 3, the ingroup preference paradigm (Enock et al., 2018) was employed to measure implicit cultural confidence, and the multicultural experience was primed by reading the material among 85 participants from a university.
Study 1 found that the more multicultural experience individuals had, the lower their hometown cultural confidence level would be, but cultural attachment compensated for this effect. Study 2 showed that only the compensation effect of cultural attachment was found on the explicit level, and relationships between implicit cultural confidence and other variables were not significant. The results of Study 3 were consistent with Study 2. There was no implicit compensation relationship, but it was found that hometown cultural attachment promoted both explicit and implicit hometown cultural confidence.
Regional multicultural experience challenges hometown cultural confidence, but hometown cultural emotion can integrate into the resilience of cultural confidence. Contemporary people's multicultural experience mostly comes from moving from their economically backward and underdeveloped hometowns to generally well-developed big cities. In the process of comparison between different regions, people will be aware of the deficiencies in the economy, culture, and other aspects of their hometown, reducing blind confidence in their hometown culture. At the same time, the interaction between people and their hometown culture prompts people to perceive, pay attention to and understand the strengths of their hometown culture, and rationalize their positive feelings towards their hometown. Pride in hometown culture shields people from various negative influences and keeps them mentally healthy.

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multicultural experience / cultural attachment / implicit cultural confidence / explicit cultural confidence

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Zhou Ting, Bi Chongzeng. Does the Regional Multicultural Experience Weaken the Cultural Confidence in Hometown? The Compensatory Role of Cultural Attachment[J]. Journal of Psychological Science. 2023, 46(5): 1131-1140 https://doi.org/10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20230513

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