Relationship and moral face: The influence of relational other''s negative moral incidents on individual feelings of face
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Chu, Chun-Hsien
Abstract
When a significant other, such as father, teacher …etc., violates moral rule, an individual may also lose face. This phenomenon is treated as “face-sharing” in this research. A review of literature on Chinese concept of face shows that the extent of face-sharing may vary with the intimacy of relationship between the dyad of interaction. This research was aimed to study whether am individual only shares face with a person of a specific relationship in the particular type of negative moral incidents, and what tactics she/he might use to maintain her/his own face in order to restore the feeling of losing face for related other’s behavior. This research was divided into two parts. By a comparison between “teacher-student” and “father-son” relationships, study I inquires the influence of related other’s violating “family ethics” on one''s feeling of face-sharing. By comparing the relationships of “teacher-student” and classmates, study II studied the effect of related other’s violating morality on face-sharing outside the family. The results showed that: In the negative moral incident of violating “family ethics”, an individual only shares face with members in the family, then will not share face with others outside the family. n summary, for Chinese people, face-sharing and face-maintaining are influenced not only by the native of dyad relationship, but also by the substantive contents of moral incidents. The moral views of Confucianism may influence Chinese how to perceive persons in relation and how to maintain one''s own psychosocial homeostasis.
Subjects
moral type
moral face
guanxi type
face maintenance
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