On "Feeling Right" in Cultural Contexts: How Person-Culture Match Affects Self-Esteem and Subjective Well-Being
On "Feeling Right" in Cultural Contexts: How Person-Culture Match Affects Self-Esteem and Subjective Well-Being
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797610384742
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Higgins, E. Tory
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作者：
Fulmer, C. Ashley;Gelfand, Michele J.;Higgins, E. Tory
无论一个人在自己的本土文化中还是在国外，一个人的个性可能与大多数人的个性有很大不同，从而无法符合“文化规范”。我们的研究探讨了个人和文化层面的人格相互作用如何影响人们的自尊和幸福感。我们提出了一个人与文化匹配的假设，该假设预测，当一个人的性格与某种文化中其他人的普遍性格相匹配时，文化将成为个性对个人层面的自尊和主观幸福感的积极影响的重要放大器。两项研究使用了来自 28 个社会的 7,000 多名个人的数据，多层次随机系数分析表明，当特定人格特质与幸福感或自尊之间存在个体层面的关系时，这种关系在以该人格维度高水平为特征的文化中更为强烈。结果在外向性、晋升焦点和机车监管模式上得到了重复。我们的研究对文化原住民和移民的福祉具有实际意义。
Whether one is in one's native culture or abroad, one's personality can differ markedly from the personalities of the majority, thus failing to match the "cultural norm." Our studies examined how the interaction of individual- and cultural-level personality affects people's self-esteem and well-being. We propose a person-culture match hypothesis that predicts that when a person's personality matches the prevalent personalities of other people in a culture, culture functions as an important amplifier of the positive effect of personality on self-esteem and subjective well-being at the individual level. Across two studies, using data from more than 7,000 individuals from 28 societies, multilevel random-coefficient analyses showed that when a relation between a given personality trait and well-being or self-esteem exists at the individual level, the relation is stronger in cultures characterized by high levels of that personality dimension. Results were replicated across extraversion, promotion focus, and locomotive regulatory mode. Our research has practical implications for the well-being of both cultural natives and migrants.