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Item Can you help me? American ratings of Japanese and American social support situations(University of Delaware, 2010-05) Frentrup, SandraPrevious research on social support has found that Asians seek support less than European Americans. The present research investigates the extent to which cultural differences in social support are encoded in the culture-specific situations and in the people within a culture. We used the method of situation sampling. Social support situations of college students from both the US and Japan were presented to 133 US college students. Each situation was followed by a 6-question rating scale questionnaire. It was hypothesized that US situations would have higher ratings of personal choice than Japanese situations overall while Japanese situations would have higher ratings of obligation than US situations overall. Ratings of obligation and personal choice would be more similar for Japanese situations than for US situations. The findings were consistent with the hypotheses, with the exception of requested, emotional support in Japan, in which personal choice was high and obligation relatively low. In the future, this study will be repeated with Japanese college students.Item Social Support in Two Cultures: Everyday Transactions in the U.S. and Empathic Assurance in Japan(PLOS (Public Library of Science), 2015-06-24) Morling, Beth; Uchida, Yukiko; Frentrup, Sandra; Beth Morling, Yukiko Uchida, Sandra Frentrup; Morling, Beth; Frentrup, SandraWe studied received social support using the cross-cultural method of situation sampling. College students from the US and Japan described and rated recent examples of received social support, both everyday support as well as support in response to stress. Middle class, European-American (EuA) students’ situations fit a model in which support is frequent and offered freely in interactions, even for relatively minor issues. Even when it’s unrequested, EuA support makes recipients feel in control, and support-givers are perceived to have acted by free choice. In contrast, results suggest that middle-class Japanese (Jpn) contexts favor support that is empathic and responsive to the recipients’ degree of need. Japanese support was experienced positively when it was emotional support, when it was in more serious situations and when the support was rated as needed by the recipient. In Japan, although problem-based support is most common, it is not particularly positive, apparently because it is less likely to be perceived as needed. Introduction