A manifestation of coloniality in psychological science concerns the modern individualist lifeways that inform mainstream research. We report results of a multi-method research project that investigated implications of these ways of being for the experience of love in Ghanaian settings. In particular, we investigated the hypothesis that engagement with Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCCs)—an important carrier of individualist lifeways in many West African settings—would be associated with a growth orientation to love as a means for mutual self-expansion and fulfillment. In Study 1 (n = 61), growth themes and a conception of love as feeling were more evident, but sustainability themes and a conception of love as doing less evident, in interview responses of participants who reported engagement with PCCs versus Traditional Western Mission Churches (TWMCs). In Study 2 (n = 1120), family obligation, relationship harmony, and (among participants who reported daily church attendance) perception of a social norm to prioritize mother over spouse were weaker for members of PCCs than TWMCs. Results help to reveal the colonial dark side of the modern individualist lifeways that mainstream research tends to regard as a just-natural standard.

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爱的现代性/殖民性：加纳世界的个人主义生活方式和魅力基督教

心理科学中殖民性的一种表现涉及为主流研究提供信息的现代个人主义生活方式。我们报告了一个多方法研究项目的结果，该项目调查了这些存在方式对加纳环境中爱的体验的影响。特别是，我们调查了这样一个假设，即与五旬节魅力教会（PCCs）——在许多西非环境中个人主义生活方式的重要载体——的接触将与将爱作为相互自我扩展和实现的一种手段的成长导向相关联。在研究 1 ( n = 61) 中，成长主题和爱作为感觉的概念更加明显，但可持续性主题和爱作为做的概念不太明显的是，在报告与 PCC 与传统西方宣教教会 (TWMC) 接触的参与者的采访反应中。在研究 2 ( n = 1120) 中，PCC 成员的家庭义务、关系和谐以及（在报告每天去教堂的参与者中）对母亲优先于配偶的社会规范的感知比 TWMC 成员更弱。结果有助于揭示现代个人主义生活方式的殖民黑暗面，主流研究倾向于将其视为公正自然的标准。