Inclusion of additional studies yields different conclusions: Comment on Sedikides, Gaertner, & Vevea (2005), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Inclusion of additional studies yields different conclusions: Comment on Sedikides, Gaertner, & Vevea (2005), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-839x.2007.00211.x
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发表时间：
2007-06
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Steven J. Heine;S. Kitayama;T. Hamamura
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作者：
Steven J. Heine;S. Kitayama;T. Hamamura
在《人格与社会心理学杂志》的一篇文章中，Sedikides、Gaertner 和 Vevea (2005) 提出了两项荟萃分析，其中包括八篇论文，旨在调查来自东方文化的人们是否会因他们认为重要的特质而不是那些他们认为不重要的特质而更加自我增强。结果支持了他们的假设：自我增强似乎是泛文化的。然而，这一结论受到六篇未纳入荟萃分析的相关论文的严重影响。重要的是，所有这六项研究都与他们的假设相矛盾。当进行包含所有相关论文的完整荟萃分析时，会出现一种截然不同的结果模式。东西方文化在独立和相互依存的自我强化模式上并无差异。此外，西方人在他们认为特别重要的特质上表现得更加自我增强，而东亚人则不然。与 Sedikides 等人相反。 （2005）建议，现有证据表明自我增强方面存在巨大的跨文化差异，西方人比东方人的自我增强程度更高。讨论了不同方法和荟萃分析结果相互矛盾的原因。
In a Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article, Sedikides, Gaertner and Vevea (2005) presented two meta-analyses that included eight papers to investigate the question of whether people from Eastern cultures self-enhance more for traits that they view to be important compared to those that they view as unimportant. The results supported their hypothesis: Self-enhancement appears to be pancultural. However, this conclusion is severely compromised by six relevant papers that are not included in their meta-analyses. Importantly, all of these six studies contradicted their hypothesis. When complete meta-analyses are conducted which include all of the relevant papers, a very different pattern of results emerges. Eastern and Western cultures do not differ from each other in the pattern of their self-enhancement of independent and interdependent traits. Furthermore, whereas Westerners self-enhanced significantly more for traits that they viewed to be especially important, East Asians did not. Contrary to the Sedikides et al. (2005) suggestion, the existing evidence suggests substantial cross-cultural variation in self-enhancement, with Westerners being far more self-enhancing than Easterners. Reasons for the conflicting pattern of findings across methods and meta-analyses are discussed.