Olwen Bedford
Biographic Data
| ID | 616569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olwen Bedford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bedford |
| SIGNATURE | BEDFORD O |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7636-7832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Relation Between Guanxi and Interpersonal Trust in the Workplace
Evolution of the Conceptualization of Filial Piety in the Global Context: From Skin to Skeleton
Social science researchers often define filial piety as a set of norms, values, and practices regarding how children should behave toward their parents. In this article, we trace the conceptual development of filial piety research in Chinese and other societies to highlight the assumptions underlying this traditional approach to filial piety research. We identify the limitations of these assumptions, including the problem of an evolving definitio…
The Psychology of Filial Piety and Moral Decision-Making in Chinese People
Filial piety has served as a guiding principle of Chinese patterns of moral socialization for millennia. However, interpretation of the values and behaviors emphasized by filial beliefs has evolved with sociopolitical demands. In this chapter, the authors first review the foundations of filial piety in Chinese culture and discuss the connection with relational identity and Confucian ethics. Next, the authors focus on the psychology of filial piet…
The History and the Future of the Psychology of Filial Piety: Chinese Norms to Contextualized Personality Construct
is usually defined in terms of traditional Chinese culture-specific family traditions. The problem with this approach is that it tends to emphasize identification of behavioral rules or norms, which limits its potential for application in other cultural contexts. Due to the global trend of population aging, governments are searching for solutions to the accompanying financial burden so greater attention is being focused on the issue of elder care…
The relational orientation framework for examining culture in Chinese societies
Individualist and collectivist cultural frameworks have been the dominant research paradigm in cross-cultural studies despite evidence of conceptual and measurement problems with collectivism. We propose a new theoretical framework of psychological functioning in Chinese societies that captures some of the useful elements of collectivism without its drawbacks. The relational orientation framework takes into account the variety of relations in an …
Everything also I want: An exploratory study of Singaporean Kiasuism (fear of losing out)
Kiasuism (fear of losing out) is a prominent cultural trait of Singapore that encompasses greed, selfishness, and inconsiderate behavior. It contributes to social problems in education and entrepreneurship. Despite its pervasiveness and negative impact, kiasuism is not well understood. The three studies that have tried to conceptualize it offer conflicting conclusions about its properties. The two existing measures focus exclusively on behavior w…
Crossing Boundaries: An Exploration of Business Socializing ( Ying Chou for Guanxi ) in a Chinese Society
Business socializing may be a critical hindrance to career advancement for many women. Chinese societies place particular emphasis on the development of personal relationships ( guanxi), and the workplace is no exception. Work relationships are often built through after-hours socializing ( ying chou). For a woman to succeed in business socializing, she must cross out of the office and into a context in which workplace expectations for professiona…
Are Guanxi -Type Supervisor–Subordinate Relationships Culture-General? An Eight-Nation Test of Measurement Invariance
Three dimensions of subordinate–supervisor relations (affective attachment, deference to supervisor, and personal-life inclusion) that had been found by Y. Chen, Friedman, Yu, Fang, and Lu to be characteristic of a guanxi relationship between subordinates and their supervisors in China were surveyed in Taiwan, Singapore, and six non-Chinese cultural contexts. The Affective Attachment and Deference subscales demonstrated full metric invariance whe…
Development and Validation of the Sports Fan Ethnocentrism Scale
Our main purpose in this study was to develop a sports fan ethnocentrism (SFE) scale and test whether or not SFE impacts sports viewing motivations and behaviors. First, 3 rounds of the Delphi technique (Gupta & Clarke, 1996) were applied to develop items for the scale. Then, using quota sampling by region, gender, and age we obtained 900 valid surveys from Major League Baseball (MLB) viewers in Taiwan. We then conducted structural equation model…
Building Relationships for Business in Taiwanese Hostess Clubs: The Psychological and Social Processes of Guanxi Development
Guanxi refers to personal ties between individuals as well as to an individual's whole network of personal relationships. Most studies of business guanxi have focused on how guanxi may be used to achieve business goals and little attention has been paid to the process of guanxi development. We examined this process in a particular context commonly believed to be important for building business relationships in Taiwan: hostess clubs. We used an in…
Flower Drinking and Masculinity in Taiwan
This study explores the role of the hostess club culture in the creation and maintenance of masculinity in Taiwan. The article focuses on flower drinking (the consumption of alcohol in bars, often integrated with prostitution), which is a common practice in Taiwan. Data were obtained from 58 in-depth interviews with men from a variety of occupations and social backgrounds (mean age = 38.50, SD = 11.00) and 73 questionnaires administered to soldie…
The Role of Cross-Cultural Factors in Integrative Conflict Resolution and Crisis Communication: The Hainan Incident
This article offers an integrated theoretical and policy-oriented framework for cross-cultural conflict resolution by exploring relationships among conflict resolution styles and crisis communicative strategies with emphasis on both conflict structure and cross-cultural factors. Using the Hainan negotiation between China and the United States as a case study, the factors inherent in conflict are investigated with respect to Chinese cultural chara…
Taiwanese Identity and Democracy: The Social Psychology of Taiwan's 2004 Elections
This book examines the issues of democracy, nationalism and strengthening Taiwan consciousness in the light of the campaign strategies employed in Taiwan's 2004 presidential and legislative election f
Taiwanese Identity and Democracy: The Social Psychology of Taiwan's 2004 Elections
Filial belief and parent—child conflict
This study examines the relation between filial belief and the frequency, origins, and solutions to parent‐child conflict using an indigenous Chinese perspective. The Dual Filial Piety model is employed to categorize the four types of filial belief: nonfilial, authoritarian, reciprocal, and absolute. Questionnaires were completed by 773 junior and senior high school students from around Taiwan for the study. Results provided support for the indig…
Juveniles' Motivations for Remaining in Prostitution
Qualitative data from in-depth interviews were collected in 1990–1991, 1992, and 2000 with 49 prostituted juveniles remanded to two rehabilitation centers in Taiwan. These data are analyzed to explore Taiwanese prostituted juveniles' feelings about themselves and their work, their motivations for remaining in prostitution, and their difficulties leaving it. Text analysis of transcriptions of the interviews suggested that juveniles have four major…
The Individual Experience of Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture
The emotions of guilt and shame play a significant role in socialization, function as mechanisms of social control, and maintain the individual's sense of personal identity. This article explores the emotions of guilt and shame in Mandarin. Specifically, Mandarin words for guilt ( nei jiu, zui e gan and fan zui gan) and shame ( diu lian, can kui, xiu kui and xiu chi) are examined. Information derived from ethnographic interviews with Taiwanese in…
A test of the Dual Filial Piety model
Filial piety is a central concept in Confucianism, containing important ideas about how children should treat their parents. Research over the past two decades has resulted in conflicting findings over whether filial piety is beneficial or harmful to individual development. The Dual Filial Piety model integrates these conflicting findings and suggests neither assessment of filial piety is appropriate. The present study offers empirical evidence i…
Precursors and pathways to adolescent prostitution in taiwan
This paper identifies the major precursors and pathways to prostitution for contemporary Taiwanese girls and the socioeconomic and cultural changes that have facilitated the shift in pathways over the past 10 years. Special attention is paid to the case of Taiwanese aborigines, who have particularly suffered systemic disruption due to prostitution. Analysis of case files and interviews provide quantitative and qualitative data that highlight the …
Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture: A Cross‐cultural Framework from the Perspective of Morality and Identity
Olwen Bedford and Kwang‐Kuo Hwang, Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture: A Cross‐cultural Framework from the Perspective of Morality and Identity, pp. 127–144. This article formulates a cross‐cultural framework for understanding guilt and shame based on a conceptualization of identity and morality in Western and Confucian cultures. First, identity is examined in each culture, and then the relation between identity and morality illuminated. The role…
Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture: A Cross‐cultural Framework from the Perspective of Morality and Identity
Olwen Bedford and Kwang‐Kuo Hwang, Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture: A Cross‐cultural Framework from the Perspective of Morality and Identity, pp. 127–144. This article formulates a cross‐cultural framework for understanding guilt and shame based on a conceptualization of identity and morality in Western and Confucian cultures. First, identity is examined in each culture, and then the relation between identity and morality illuminated. The role…
The Individual Experience of Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture
The emotions of guilt and shame play a significant role in socialization, function as mechanisms of social control, and maintain the individual's sense of personal identity. This article explores the emotions of guilt and shame in Mandarin. Specifically, Mandarin words for guilt ( nei jiu, zui e gan and fan zui gan) and shame ( diu lian, can kui, xiu kui and xiu chi) are examined. Information derived from ethnographic interviews with Taiwanese in…
Juveniles' Motivations for Remaining in Prostitution
Qualitative data from in-depth interviews were collected in 1990–1991, 1992, and 2000 with 49 prostituted juveniles remanded to two rehabilitation centers in Taiwan. These data are analyzed to explore Taiwanese prostituted juveniles' feelings about themselves and their work, their motivations for remaining in prostitution, and their difficulties leaving it. Text analysis of transcriptions of the interviews suggested that juveniles have four major…
Flower Drinking and Masculinity in Taiwan
This study explores the role of the hostess club culture in the creation and maintenance of masculinity in Taiwan. The article focuses on flower drinking (the consumption of alcohol in bars, often integrated with prostitution), which is a common practice in Taiwan. Data were obtained from 58 in-depth interviews with men from a variety of occupations and social backgrounds (mean age = 38.50, SD = 11.00) and 73 questionnaires administered to soldie…
Precursors and pathways to adolescent prostitution in taiwan
This paper identifies the major precursors and pathways to prostitution for contemporary Taiwanese girls and the socioeconomic and cultural changes that have facilitated the shift in pathways over the past 10 years. Special attention is paid to the case of Taiwanese aborigines, who have particularly suffered systemic disruption due to prostitution. Analysis of case files and interviews provide quantitative and qualitative data that highlight the …
Building Relationships for Business in Taiwanese Hostess Clubs: The Psychological and Social Processes of Guanxi Development
Guanxi refers to personal ties between individuals as well as to an individual's whole network of personal relationships. Most studies of business guanxi have focused on how guanxi may be used to achieve business goals and little attention has been paid to the process of guanxi development. We examined this process in a particular context commonly believed to be important for building business relationships in Taiwan: hostess clubs. We used an in…
The Relation Between Guanxi and Interpersonal Trust in the Workplace
Are Guanxi -Type Supervisor–Subordinate Relationships Culture-General? An Eight-Nation Test of Measurement Invariance
Three dimensions of subordinate–supervisor relations (affective attachment, deference to supervisor, and personal-life inclusion) that had been found by Y. Chen, Friedman, Yu, Fang, and Lu to be characteristic of a guanxi relationship between subordinates and their supervisors in China were surveyed in Taiwan, Singapore, and six non-Chinese cultural contexts. The Affective Attachment and Deference subscales demonstrated full metric invariance whe…
A test of the Dual Filial Piety model
Filial piety is a central concept in Confucianism, containing important ideas about how children should treat their parents. Research over the past two decades has resulted in conflicting findings over whether filial piety is beneficial or harmful to individual development. The Dual Filial Piety model integrates these conflicting findings and suggests neither assessment of filial piety is appropriate. The present study offers empirical evidence i…
Precursors and pathways to adolescent prostitution in taiwan
This paper identifies the major precursors and pathways to prostitution for contemporary Taiwanese girls and the socioeconomic and cultural changes that have facilitated the shift in pathways over the past 10 years. Special attention is paid to the case of Taiwanese aborigines, who have particularly suffered systemic disruption due to prostitution. Analysis of case files and interviews provide quantitative and qualitative data that highlight the …
Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture: A Cross‐cultural Framework from the Perspective of Morality and Identity
Olwen Bedford and Kwang‐Kuo Hwang, Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture: A Cross‐cultural Framework from the Perspective of Morality and Identity, pp. 127–144. This article formulates a cross‐cultural framework for understanding guilt and shame based on a conceptualization of identity and morality in Western and Confucian cultures. First, identity is examined in each culture, and then the relation between identity and morality illuminated. The role…
Filial belief and parent—child conflict
This study examines the relation between filial belief and the frequency, origins, and solutions to parent‐child conflict using an indigenous Chinese perspective. The Dual Filial Piety model is employed to categorize the four types of filial belief: nonfilial, authoritarian, reciprocal, and absolute. Questionnaires were completed by 773 junior and senior high school students from around Taiwan for the study. Results provided support for the indig…
Juveniles' Motivations for Remaining in Prostitution
Qualitative data from in-depth interviews were collected in 1990–1991, 1992, and 2000 with 49 prostituted juveniles remanded to two rehabilitation centers in Taiwan. These data are analyzed to explore Taiwanese prostituted juveniles' feelings about themselves and their work, their motivations for remaining in prostitution, and their difficulties leaving it. Text analysis of transcriptions of the interviews suggested that juveniles have four major…
The Individual Experience of Guilt and Shame in Chinese Culture
The emotions of guilt and shame play a significant role in socialization, function as mechanisms of social control, and maintain the individual's sense of personal identity. This article explores the emotions of guilt and shame in Mandarin. Specifically, Mandarin words for guilt ( nei jiu, zui e gan and fan zui gan) and shame ( diu lian, can kui, xiu kui and xiu chi) are examined. Information derived from ethnographic interviews with Taiwanese in…
Taiwanese Identity and Democracy: The Social Psychology of Taiwan's 2004 Elections
This book examines the issues of democracy, nationalism and strengthening Taiwan consciousness in the light of the campaign strategies employed in Taiwan's 2004 presidential and legislative election f
Taiwanese Identity and Democracy: The Social Psychology of Taiwan's 2004 Elections
Flower Drinking and Masculinity in Taiwan
This study explores the role of the hostess club culture in the creation and maintenance of masculinity in Taiwan. The article focuses on flower drinking (the consumption of alcohol in bars, often integrated with prostitution), which is a common practice in Taiwan. Data were obtained from 58 in-depth interviews with men from a variety of occupations and social backgrounds (mean age = 38.50, SD = 11.00) and 73 questionnaires administered to soldie…
The Role of Cross-Cultural Factors in Integrative Conflict Resolution and Crisis Communication: The Hainan Incident
This article offers an integrated theoretical and policy-oriented framework for cross-cultural conflict resolution by exploring relationships among conflict resolution styles and crisis communicative strategies with emphasis on both conflict structure and cross-cultural factors. Using the Hainan negotiation between China and the United States as a case study, the factors inherent in conflict are investigated with respect to Chinese cultural chara…
Building Relationships for Business in Taiwanese Hostess Clubs: The Psychological and Social Processes of Guanxi Development
Guanxi refers to personal ties between individuals as well as to an individual's whole network of personal relationships. Most studies of business guanxi have focused on how guanxi may be used to achieve business goals and little attention has been paid to the process of guanxi development. We examined this process in a particular context commonly believed to be important for building business relationships in Taiwan: hostess clubs. We used an in…
Development and Validation of the Sports Fan Ethnocentrism Scale
Our main purpose in this study was to develop a sports fan ethnocentrism (SFE) scale and test whether or not SFE impacts sports viewing motivations and behaviors. First, 3 rounds of the Delphi technique (Gupta & Clarke, 1996) were applied to develop items for the scale. Then, using quota sampling by region, gender, and age we obtained 900 valid surveys from Major League Baseball (MLB) viewers in Taiwan. We then conducted structural equation model…
Are Guanxi -Type Supervisor–Subordinate Relationships Culture-General? An Eight-Nation Test of Measurement Invariance
Three dimensions of subordinate–supervisor relations (affective attachment, deference to supervisor, and personal-life inclusion) that had been found by Y. Chen, Friedman, Yu, Fang, and Lu to be characteristic of a guanxi relationship between subordinates and their supervisors in China were surveyed in Taiwan, Singapore, and six non-Chinese cultural contexts. The Affective Attachment and Deference subscales demonstrated full metric invariance whe…
Crossing Boundaries: An Exploration of Business Socializing ( Ying Chou for Guanxi ) in a Chinese Society
Business socializing may be a critical hindrance to career advancement for many women. Chinese societies place particular emphasis on the development of personal relationships ( guanxi), and the workplace is no exception. Work relationships are often built through after-hours socializing ( ying chou). For a woman to succeed in business socializing, she must cross out of the office and into a context in which workplace expectations for professiona…
Everything also I want: An exploratory study of Singaporean Kiasuism (fear of losing out)
Kiasuism (fear of losing out) is a prominent cultural trait of Singapore that encompasses greed, selfishness, and inconsiderate behavior. It contributes to social problems in education and entrepreneurship. Despite its pervasiveness and negative impact, kiasuism is not well understood. The three studies that have tried to conceptualize it offer conflicting conclusions about its properties. The two existing measures focus exclusively on behavior w…
The relational orientation framework for examining culture in Chinese societies
Individualist and collectivist cultural frameworks have been the dominant research paradigm in cross-cultural studies despite evidence of conceptual and measurement problems with collectivism. We propose a new theoretical framework of psychological functioning in Chinese societies that captures some of the useful elements of collectivism without its drawbacks. The relational orientation framework takes into account the variety of relations in an …
The History and the Future of the Psychology of Filial Piety: Chinese Norms to Contextualized Personality Construct
is usually defined in terms of traditional Chinese culture-specific family traditions. The problem with this approach is that it tends to emphasize identification of behavioral rules or norms, which limits its potential for application in other cultural contexts. Due to the global trend of population aging, governments are searching for solutions to the accompanying financial burden so greater attention is being focused on the issue of elder care…
The Psychology of Filial Piety and Moral Decision-Making in Chinese People
Filial piety has served as a guiding principle of Chinese patterns of moral socialization for millennia. However, interpretation of the values and behaviors emphasized by filial beliefs has evolved with sociopolitical demands. In this chapter, the authors first review the foundations of filial piety in Chinese culture and discuss the connection with relational identity and Confucian ethics. Next, the authors focus on the psychology of filial piet…
Evolution of the Conceptualization of Filial Piety in the Global Context: From Skin to Skeleton
Social science researchers often define filial piety as a set of norms, values, and practices regarding how children should behave toward their parents. In this article, we trace the conceptual development of filial piety research in Chinese and other societies to highlight the assumptions underlying this traditional approach to filial piety research. We identify the limitations of these assumptions, including the problem of an evolving definitio…
The Relation Between Guanxi and Interpersonal Trust in the Workplace
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · China (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)