Responsibility is a social and cultural phenomenon, as well as a mental and behavioral phenomenon. To analysis and enquire the psychological law of responsibility, from the viewpoint of social psychology, is of profound theoretical and practical significance. In this paper, based on an everyday-experience approach, both methods consisted of theoretical analysis and interview study with 207 participators are used to analysis the mental framework of responsibility, and several other issues related to responsibility situations. The results are: (1) Responsibility is a social phenomenon experienced continually by people in everyday life. (2) The kind of responsibility situation recalled by interviewer is different in private and professional life: the former focuses interrelation, whereas the latter focuses performing duty. (3) In professional life, the causation of the situation tends to be attributed to other people; but in private life, it used to be attributed to oneself. (4) The judgment of responsibility situation depends upon if the results of the situation fit one’s expectation. (5) The mental factors of responsibility consist of 20 primary elements, such as causation of the situation, self-efficacy, the sense of achievement, inner motive, and so on. (6) The mental framework of responsibility is made up of responsibility cognition, responsibility emotion and responsibility conduct, which forms a one-way operating pattern.
Key words
responsibility /
responsibility situation /
mental framework /
everyday-experience approach
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