ABSTRACT
Relationship harmony focuses on the degree of harmony achieved in interpersonal relationships. This study is part of a program to establish the nomological network surrounding the construct of relationship harmony for the Chinese in preparation of further cross-cultural studies. Relationship harmony has been found to correlate with self-reported Openness, Emotional Stability, Helpfulness, Restraint, and Extroversion. Collective self-esteem was also positively correlated with relationship harmony, a result which suggests that it is related to the importance of participants’ ethnic identity and how they perceive others to rate their ethnic group. However, relationship harmony as initially assessed was correlated with only one dimension of personality as perceived by peers. This gap suggests that relationship harmony must also be measured in terms of specific relationships within one’s social circle and not merely by self-assessments. An alternate way to tap relationship harmony is thus proposed, and the possible linkages of this new measure are discussed.
