Edited By: Kim-Pong Tam
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Asian Journal of Social Psychology publishes high-impact original research in all areas of social psychology from Asia and the rest of the world. We also welcome reviews and meta-analyses, interdisciplinary studies, methodological innovations, and research in applied psychology with social psychological significance. We are committed to advancing robust, reproducible, and open science to drive real impact.
Announcements
Upcoming Special Issue: Call for Papers
Asian Journal of Social Psychology is happy to announce that it is participating in a MultiJournal Special Issue on "Advancing the Interface between Research and Practice for Sustainable Development."
It is now calling for papers that examine the interface between research and practice and demonstrate the relevance of social psychological processes to the promotion of mitigation behavior, facilitation of social, cultural, and institutional changes, protection of vulnerable populations, and diffusion of adaptation practices in the context of the global climate change agenda. For details, please see here.
Celebrating 25 years of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology!

AJSP Editors Podcast
Episode 11 of the AJSP Editors podcast is now live! Among the papers published in the September 2023 issue of the journal, we selected the one about perceived celebrity support, written by Shabahang et al., as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very useful conversation with our special guest Lucy Xiaowan Lin about publishing research on management and organizational behavior in social psychological journals.
To read more and to subscribe to the podcast to hear other episodes, click here, or just listen below.
New Virtual Issue: Social and Cultural Aspects of Well-Being
Read more about Asian Journal of Social Psychology's new Virtual Issue here.
New Special Issue: The Psychology of Economic Inequality and Social Class
Read more about Asian Journal of Social Psychology's new Special Issue here.
AJSP Updated Author Guidelines
The editorial team of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology would like to announce the update of the Author Guidelines of the journal. The updated guidelines are now more streamlined and easy to read. Also, as the journal is committed to advancing robust, reproducible and open science, corresponding editorial policies are now included in the guidelines. For details, please find the full guidelines here, and read an editorial introducing these changes here.
Articles
A socio-ecological context moderates the association between communication skills and friendship satisfaction: Possible role of relational mobility
-  22 September 2023
An adaptationist model of selfhood: Examining the cross-cultural measurement invariance of the scales of dual independence and interdependence
-  22 September 2023
Impact of social support on life satisfaction in older adults: Considering socioeconomic status as moderator
-  22 September 2023
Dispositional authenticity, facilitativeness, femininity ideology, and dyadic relationship functioning in opposite‐gender couples: Actor‐partner interdependence analysis
-  22 September 2023
Differential impact of prescriptive norms in the intergenerational transmission of environmental concern in a non‐Western context: Evidence from the Philippines
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  449-463
-  2 October 2021
Expressive suppression, confucian Zhong Yong thinking, and psychosocial adjustment among Chinese young adults
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  715-730
-  3 March 2022
Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine-country study of folk theories of societal development
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  731-746
-  30 March 2022
Sociocultural and ecological perspectives on achievement motivation
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  433-448
-  5 October 2021
Toward educational equity in China: The relationships between language performance and socioeconomic status at the individual, school, and district levels
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  75-87
-  2 October 2021
Cultural psychology of inequality: Current and future directions
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  103-116
-  5 January 2022
Will female managers support gender equality? The study of “Queen Bee” syndrome in China
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  544-555
-  20 January 2022
Authoritarian attitudes in Russia: Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in the modern Russian context
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  623-645
-  19 February 2022
Social media addiction and personality: A meta‐analysis
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
-  747-761
-  23 March 2022