Culture and self-concept stability: Consistency across and within contexts among Asian Americans and European Americans
Culture and self-concept stability: Consistency across and within contexts among Asian Americans and European Americans
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.93.3.478
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发表时间：
2007-09-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Chen, Serena
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作者：
English, Tammy;Chen, Serena
先前的文化研究关注的是跨情境自我描述的一致性，而目前的4项研究考察了多元自我维度一致性的文化差异，并在跨情境和不同情境中进行了研究。支持预测的是，研究1a发现，亚裔美国人在各种关系背景下的自我描述不如欧裔美国人一致。然而，短期纵向研究1b发现，随着时间的推移，亚裔美国人的自我描述在这些背景下表现出高度的一致性。总之，这些发现表明，对于亚裔美国人来说，自我概念的稳定源于用“如果-那么”的术语来定义自我，也就是说，在关系环境中，自我是可变的，但在关系环境中是稳定的。在研究2a和2b中，平行一致性效应出现在自我概念的两个核心动机层面：自我观点重要性和自我提升。此外，辩证信念介导了跨语境一致性的文化差异。总体而言，研究结果显示了自我概念一致性的鲁棒性和文化差异的边界，以及检查自我概念中多种形式的稳定性的重要性。对真实性和幸福感的影响进行了讨论。
Whereas prior cultural research has focused on consistency of self-descriptions across contexts, the current 4 studies examined cultural differences in consistency of multiple self-dimensions and did so both across and within different contexts. Supporting predictions, Study 1 a found that Asian Americans were less consistent in their self-descriptions across relationship contexts than were European Americans. Yet Study 1b, a short-term longitudinal study, found that Asian Americans' self-descriptions nonetheless showed high consistency within these contexts over time. Together, these findings suggest that for Asian Americans self-concept stability derives from defining the self in "if-then" terms, that is, as variable across relationship contexts but stable within them. In Studies 2a and 2b, parallel consistency effects emerged for 2 core motivational facets of the self-concept: self-view importance and self-enhancement. Moreover, dialectical beliefs mediated the cultural difference in consistency across contexts. Overall, the results demonstrate both the robustness and the boundaries of cultural differences in self-concept consistency as well as the importance of examining multiple forms of stability in the self-concept. Implications for authenticity and well-being are discussed.