Working together or separately? The role of identity and cultural self-construal in well-being among Japanese youth

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  • Kazumi Sugimura
    Graduate School of Education; Hiroshima University; Higashihiroshima-city, Hiroshima Japan
  • Reiko Nakama
    Graduate School of Education; Hyogo University of Teacher Education; Kato-city, Hyogo Japan
  • Shinichi Mizokami
    Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education; Kyoto University; Yoshida Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku Japan
  • Kai Hatano
    Development Center for Higher Education; Osaka Prefecture University; Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai-city, Osaka Japan
  • Manabu Tsuzuki
    Fuculty of Letters; Chuo University; Higashinakano, Hachioji-city Japan
  • Seth J. Schwartz
    Department of Public Health Sciences; University of Miami; Miami Florida USA

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  • Identity and cultural self-construal

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Young people develop a sense of personal identity during the transition to adulthood, a time when individuals choose and adhere to a specific set of goals, values, and beliefs. In addition, in many contemporary Asian societies, youth are expected to acquire and balance traditional and Western cultural views of the self — that is, independent and interdependent self-construal. To understand the relationships between the personal and cultural facets of the transition to adulthood, this study examined (a) associations between personal identity and well-being and (b) the possible moderating role of cultural self-construal (independence and interdependence) in this link. These hypotheses were tested in a sample of 520 Japanese university students (52.6% female). The results indicated that personal identity predicted each dimension of well-being, suggesting that the importance of personal identity in promoting youth's well-being can be understood as a universal phenomenon. Moreover, because the moderating role of self-construal in the links between identity and well-being was found to be limited, personal identity can be viewed as operating separately from self-construal in well-being to a large extent. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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