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Value importance, social pressure, and committed action: conflict and reinforcement across value domains

VALUE IMPORTANCE, SOCIAL PRESSURE, AND COMMITTED ACTION: CONFLICT AND REINFORCEMENT AMONG VALUE DOMAINS

Committed action is determined primarily by the importance a value holds for the individual, rather than by perceived social pressure, and action in one value domain may conflict with or reinforce action in another.

The study aimed to examine the relationships among value importance, perceived social pressure, and committed action—central concepts in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)—across value domains. A sample of 499 adults recruited from an online panel in South Korea (250 men; mean age 44.73, SD 13.53; age range 20–69 years) participated in two online sessions within one week. In the first session, participants completed the Value Inventory and the Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ); in the second, they rated the same items again in terms of perceived social pressure. The VLQ's 10 domains were grouped into relationships, self-achievement, and self-care based on Self-Determination Theory. Multiple regression was used to assess overall effects, mixed-effects models to examine domain-specific effects, and pairwise correlations and regressions to investigate cross-domain conflict and reinforcement. Both value importance (B = 0.79, p < 0.001) and social pressure (B = 0.09, p = 0.03) were positively associated with committed action, but their interaction was not significant (B = 0.03, p = 0.42). Value importance was positively associated with committed action in all domains, with the strongest association in self-care (B = 0.668; compared with the relationship domain, ΔB = 0.435, p < 0.001). In the cross-domain analysis, committed action toward relationships was negatively associated with self-achievement and self-care (B = -1.69 to -0.48), whereas self-achievement and self-care were positively associated with each other (B = 0.29 to 0.95; all p < 0.001). The authors suggest that addressing both cross-domain value conflict and mutual facilitation in ACT practice may strengthen interventions.

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