Cultural Bases for Self-Evaluation

Becker, Maja; Vignoles, Vivian L.; Owe, Ellinor; Easterbrook, Matthew J.; Brown, Rupert; Smith, Peter B.; Bond, Michael Harris; Regalia, Camillo; Manzi, Claudia; Brambilla, Maria; Aldhafri, Said; González, Roberto; Carrasco, Diego; Cadena, María Paz; Lay, Siugmin; Gallo, Inge Schweiger; Torres, Ana Raquel Rosas; Camino, Leôncio; Özgen, Emre; Güner, Ülku E.; Yamakoğlu, Nil; Lemos, Flávia Cristina Silveira; Trujillo, Elvia Vargas; Balanta, Paola; Macapagal, Ma. Elizabeth J.; Ferreira, Maria Cristina; Herman, Ginette; Sauvage, Isabelle de; Bourguignon, David; Wang, Qian; Fülöp, Márta; Harb, Charles; Chybicka, Aneta; Mekonnen, Kassahun Habtamu; Martin, Mariana; Nizharadze, George; Gavreliuc, Alin; Buitendach, Johanna H.; Valk, Aune; Koller, Sílvia Helena

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“…For example, multilevel longitudinal research by Christ and colleagues (2014) demonstrated that the context-level effect of intergroup contact on outgroup prejudice was greater than the effect of individual contact. This and similar research demonstrates that collective or contextual processes can influence individual-level processes and outcomes (e.g., Becker et al, 2012, 2014; Thomas et al, 2016). The vast majority of motivational research to date within the SIT literature has focused on motivational influences on individual-level processes (personal and social identity motives).…”

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Social Identification in Sports Teams

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Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Social Identification in Sports Teams

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“…For instance, the personality traits that best predicted well-being were the ones shared within a cultural group, such as extraversion in a culture with high levels of extraversion ( Fulmer et al, 2010 ). Likewise, adolescents’ self-esteem was best predicted by a positive self-evaluation in the domain valued most by others in the culture ( Becker et al, 2014 ). Correspondingly, negative well-being has been related to psychological tendencies that violate the cultural mandate.…”

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Feeling right is feeling good: psychological well-being and emotional fit with culture in autonomy- versus relatedness-promoting situations

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The current research tested the idea that it is the cultural fit of emotions, rather than certain emotions per se, that predicts psychological well-being. We reasoned that emotional fit in the domains of life that afford the realization of central cultural mandates would be particularly important to psychological well-being. We tested this hypothesis with samples from three cultural contexts that are known to differ with respect to their main cultural mandates: a European American (N = 30), a Korean (N = 80), and a Belgian sample (N = 266). Cultural fit was measured by comparing an individual’s patterns of emotions to the average cultural pattern for the same type of situation on the Emotional Patterns Questionnaire (De Leersnyder et al., 2011). Consistent with our hypothesis, we found evidence for “universality without uniformity”: in each sample, psychological well-being was associated with emotional fit in the domain that was key to the cultural mandate. However, cultures varied with regard to the particular domain involved. Psychological well-being was predicted by emotional fit (a) in autonomy-promoting situations at work in the U.S., (b) in relatedness-promoting situations at home in Korea, and (c) in both autonomy-promoting and relatedness-promoting situations in Belgium. These findings show that the experience of culturally appropriate patterns of emotions contributes to psychological well-being. One interpretation is that experiencing appropriate emotions is itself a realization of the cultural mandates.

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“…To ascertain that modesty reflected cultural rather than personal values (cf. Becker et al, 2014), we compared it with that of punctuality, a characteristic that a Pilot Study verified to be equally important to our Chinese participants at the personal level, but less important at the cultural level.…”

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Disowning the Self: The Cultural Value of Modesty can Attenuate Self-Positivity

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Sedikides

Cai

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Western participants endorse a higher number of positive traits as self-descriptive, but endorse a lower number of negative traits as self-descriptive. They also respond quicker to categorize positive traits as self-descriptive, but respond slower to categorize negative traits as self-descriptive. Is this self-positivity bias qualified by the cultural value of modesty? We induced modesty (vs. punctuality) and assessed self-descriptiveness judgments and response times among Chinese participants. We replicated the self-positivity bias in regards to both self-descriptiveness judgments and response times. In the case of self-descriptiveness judgments, however, the bias was partially qualified by modesty. Relative to control participants, those in the modesty condition endorsed fewer positive traits as self-descriptive, and manifested a tendency toward endorsing more negative traits as self-descriptive. In the case of response times, the self-positivity bias was unqualified by modesty. Within both conditions, participants were quicker to categorize positive traits as self-descriptive, and were slower to categorize negative traits as self-descriptive. The results speak to the relation between the self-positivity bias and the self-reference effect, and illustrate the malleability of self-processing.

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Cultural Bases for Self-Evaluation

Cited by 95 publications

References 51 publications

Social Identification in Sports Teams

Social Identification in Sports Teams

Feeling right is feeling good: psychological well-being and emotional fit with culture in autonomy- versus relatedness-promoting situations

Disowning the Self: The Cultural Value of Modesty can Attenuate Self-Positivity

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