Cultural Similarities in Self-Esteem Functioning: East is East and West is West, But Sometimes the Twain do Meet  

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Brown, Jonathan D. ; Cai, Huajian ; Deng, Ciping

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 40 no. 1 (Jan. 2009), page 140.
Topik: Self-esteem; Culture; Self-enhancement Biases
Fulltext: JCCP_40_01_140.pdf (223.22KB)

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East Asians report lower levels of self-esteem than North Americans and Western Europeans. These differences could mean that self-esteem is a culturally bounded construct, experienced differently in different cultures, or they could mean that self-esteem is a universally relevant construct whose average level is raised or lowered in different cultures. To examine these possibilities, the authors assessed self-esteem functioning in China and America. Study 1 found that, across cultures, self-serving attributions are stronger when self-esteem is high than when it is low. Study 2 replicated this finding and also found that, across cultures, failure produces less emotional distress when self-esteem is high than when it is low. Because self-esteem functioned similarly in China as in America, the authors conclude it is of general psychological importance.

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