Self-Enhancement : Is It Restricted to Individualistic Cultures ?  

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Kurman, Jenny

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 27 no. 12 (2001), page 1705-1716.
Topik: individual; self - enhancement; individualistic cultures
Fulltext: 1705PSPB2712.pdf (109.65KB)

Isi artikel

Two studies investigated how self - enhancement relates to interdependent and independent self - construals typical of collectivist and individualist cultures, respectively. Participants from three cultures were surveyed, two of them collectivist (Singaporean Chinese and Israeli Druze) and one individualist (Israeli Jews). Study 1 shows that the two collectivist cultures differ in their self - enhancement level among university students : Self - enhancement level among Singaporeans was weaker for academic self - enhancement and for other agentic traits. No cultural difference in self - enhancement of communal traits was found (N = 418). Study 2 replicated these results for high school students and evaluated the relations between self - construals, modesty, and self - enhancement. Regression analyses show that self - enhancement of agentic traits is predicted by independent self - construal and modesty (negatively), whereas self - enhancement of communal traits is predicted by interdependent self - construal (N = 362). The role of modesty norms in self - enhancement is discussed.

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