Context-Specific Measurement of Individualism-Collectivism on the Individual Level

Matsumoto, David; Weissman, Michelle D.; Preston, K. R.; Brown, Bonny R.; Kupperbusch, Cenita

doi:10.1177/0022022197286006

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“…Secondly, in line with several other researchers (e.g. Matsumoto, Weissman, Preston, Brown, & Kupperbusch, 1997;Rhee, Uleman, & Lee, 1996), we believe that there is a need for scales that measure individualism and collectivism as two separate dimensions and that do so with respect to specific contexts or types of social relationship. Therefore, in the second part of the article we examine whether individualism generalizes across various domains of social relations.…”

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“…The Individualism-Collectivism Assessment Inventory (ICAI) of Matsumoto and his associates (Matsumoto, Kudoh, & Takeuchi, 1996;Matsumoto, Weissman, Preston, Brown, & Kupperbusch, 1997) examined individualism and collectivism within the four reference groups, family, friends, colleagues, and strangers. Their study showed that common notions of individualism and collectivism between various cultures and ethnicities were indeed carried by specific social relationships.…”

Section: Target/context-specific Nature Of Individualism and Collectimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Three components of individualism

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In this article, following an assumption that individualism and collectivism are separate factors, we have further established that three central components of individualism can be distinguished. In the first part of the article we examined whether the three proposed components of individualism-autonomy, mature self-responsibility, and uniquenesscan be distinguished from each other in one cultural context, Estonia. A new scale was developed to measure the three aspects of individualism which demonstrated both the reasonable internal-consistency reliability as well as convergent and divergent validity with several other measures of individualism and collectivism and related constructs. In the second part of the article we studied whether individualism generalizes across specific contexts or domains of social relationships, namely, across relations with family and close others; friends and peers; state and nation. The results of the three-mode principal component analysis showed that the individualistic tendencies of the respondents did not differ much while measured toward the three types of social relation.

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Three components of individualism

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“…Therefore, to determine the behavioral consequences of allocentricism, situation cues in the form of perceived relationships with the target audience have to be introduced (Kashima & Hardie, 2000). It is also suggested that scenarios-context specific cues-are more appropriate for assessing the self-related psychological processes (see Matsumoto, Weissman, Preston, Brown, & Kupperbusch, 1997;Triandis, Chen, & Chan, 1998) in Asian populations.…”

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The Concentric Circle Revisited: Allocentrism and Self in a Contemporary Chinese Community

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2012

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Contemporary literature has extensively documented the connection between allocentrism and interdependence in self-construals. The present report comprises two studies that aimed to extend this literature by investigating the traditional Chinese concentric circle model of self-representation in a modern Asian community. Study 1 comprised a series of focus group discussions (N = 35, 4 males and 31 females, average age 20) to determine the qualitative content of self-construal. Participants reported a construct called the "true self", with a content similar to the private self, and a number of social-selves varying along the perceived intimacy of the self-other relationship. In Study 2, 120 participants (all females, average age 19) were tested on their level of allocentrism and then allocated to an allocentric (top 25%, N = 30) and an idiocentric (bottom 25%; N = 30) group. Participants responded to the Twenty-Self Statement-Test (TST) on seven relationship scenarios with various levels of intimacy. Their responses were coded into collective/private/public self categories. Allocentrism and scenarios were found to have main and interactive effects on the proportions of self categories. The results were interpreted as supporting the graded nature of Chinese self-other relationships and a modified concentric circle self-representation in modern Asia.

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“…All participants completed an abbreviated, 20-item version of the SDS and an abbreviated, 19-item version of the ICIAI (values only), which has been used reliably and validly in Japan (Matsumoto et al, 1997). The items on the SDS were those that had the highest item-total correlations on both subscales in Study 1 (asterisked items in the appendix).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%