Cultural views of self and self-assessment behavior : Empirical findings in Japanese culture
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- SEIKE Miki
- Faculty of Social Research, Nara University
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- TAKATA Toshitake
- Faculty of Social Research, Nara University
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 文化的自己観と自己査定行動 : 日本文化における検討
- ブンカテキ ジコカン ト ジコ サテイ コウドウ ニホン ブンカ ニ オケル
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Description
Three experiments were conducted trying to examine the self-assessment theory (Trope, 1983) in Japan. As self-assessment motivation seems to be derived from the independent construal of the self (Markus & Kitayama, 1991), it was hypothesized that the motivation will be suppressed by theinterdependent construal of the self which is ubiquitous in Japanese culture. Experiment 1 replicated self-assessment behavior, using the same manipulations as in the previous studies where the subjects felt almost no concern about interpersonal relationships. In Experiment 2, it was demonstrated that subjects displaying a high level of interdependency did not show self-assessment behavior in the conditions where interpersonal concerns were activated. On the other hand, the results in Experiment 3 did not reveal such suppression of self-assessment in the case of subjects who lacked the independent or interdependent construal of the self. These results suggested that Japanese subjects tend to inhibit their self-assessment motivation in favor of self-devaluation process.
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of Social Psychology
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Japanese Journal of Social Psychology 13 (1), 23-32, 1997
The Japanese Society of Social Psychology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282679467534336
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- NII Article ID
- 110002785310
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- NII Book ID
- AN10049127
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- ISSN
- 21891338
- 09161503
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- NDL BIB ID
- 4310410
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed