Self-Portraits: Possible Selves in European-American, Chilean, Japanese and Japanese-American Cultural Contexts

Cultural Scripts in Narratives about Future Life: Comparisons among Japanese, Chinese and American Students

“…We speculate that establishing and keeping personal relationships would be experienced as an explicit task in American culture, where the individual is expected to be independent and separate, as Unemori et al (2004) suggested. Some recent re-searchers contend that both agency and relatedness are basic human needs, and compatible with one another (Guisinger & Blatt, 1994;Kagitcibashi, 2005).…”

“…A cross-cultural study by Unemori, Omoregie, & Markus (2004) showed that whereas American undergraduates tended to depict possible selves as intrapersonal and interpersonal, those of Japanese and Japanese-American undergraduates were likely to center on career/education, suggesting that possible selves could be shaped by sociocultural context. Recent theorists have further suggested that possible selves have a narrative nature and could be better understood with a narrative approach (Erikson, 2007;Whitty, 2002).…”

Wellness motivation in cardiac rehabilitation: The role of self‐knowledge in cardiovascular risk modification

“…Thus, self-knowledge likely plays a primary role in regulating individual motivation and decision-making activities relevant to the formation of goals and health behaviors central to cardiovascular risk reduction. In the sense that motivation implies potential change from present to future, self-knowledge operationalizes and represents motivation in the self-concept (Dunkel & Kerpelman, 2006;Markus & Nurius, 1986;Unemori, Omoregie, & Markus, 2004).…”

Motivations for Learning Japanese and Additional Languages: A Study for L2 Self-Image across Multiple Languages

“…Based on a previously developed coding schema, Unemori et al (2004) utilised six thematic categories of possible selves to analyse the future self-images of university students in European-American, Japanese-American, Japanese and Chilean contexts (2004,326). Th ese are:…”

“…Th irteen students from an Australian university participated in the study, all of whom were learning Japanese as a second language (L2) and were also learners or users of additional languages. Utilising Dörnyei's (2005) L2 Motivational Self System and the concept of 'domains of possible selves ' (Unemori et al 2004), this study investigates the language selfimages (L2 selves) associated with Japanese, and contrasts them with the L2 selves associated with participants' additional languages. Further, it explores the formation of L2 selves and the relationships between diff erent L2 selves within a learner.…”