SELF CONSTRUAL EFFECTS ON SOCIAL PROCESSES

自我观念对社会过程的影响

• 批准号: 6186800
• 负责人: WENDI L. GARDNER
• 金额: $ 7.33万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6186800
• 关键词: attribution; behavioral /social science research tag; culture; human subject; identity; interpersonal relations; peer group; psychological tests; self concept; social behavior; social group process; social psychology; socioenvironment

The current proposal focuses upon the influence of holding a relatively independent vs. interdependent selfconstrual on self- evaluation processes and social behavior. Independent self- construals are defined as those that focus upon individual attributes and emphasize autonomy. Interdependent self-construals are those that focus upon roles in close relationships or group memberships and emphasize connection with others (see Markus and Kitayama, 1991). Although past research concerning self-construal has focused primarily upon cultural differences, relatively independent vs. interdependent self-construals may also be situationally activated through priming (e.g., Brewer and Gardner, 1996), and thus the ability of self construal to act as an interpretive framework for the understanding of self, others, and social behavior may be examined apart from cultural comparisons. Five studies are proposed to examine both the basic processes thought to be influenced by the relative accessibility of an independent vs. interdependent self-construal, and to investigate the implications of these processes for group behavior. It is hypothesized that shifting from an independent to interdependent self-construal will: (1) shift self-evaluation from emphasizing social comparison processes through which the success of close others threatens esteem, to instead social reflection processes, through which the success of close others bolsters esteem (e.g., Tesser, 1988); (2) shift self-regulation from emphasizing one's own self-guides and standards to emphasizing the guides and standards of others (e.g., Higgins, 1987); and (3) shift the control strategies used from an emphasizing active control, through which the social environment is changed to suit the needs of the self, to emphasizing reactive control through which the self is changed to suit the social environment (e.g., Rothbaum et al., 1982). The implications of accessible independent vs. interdependent self-construals will then be examined in terms of group behavior; shifting from an independent to interdependent self-construal should (4) encourage the pursuit of collective over personal interests in a "commons dilemma" and should (5) discourage "social loafing" during a collective effort.

目前的建议集中在持有相对独立与相互依存的自我建构对自我评价过程和社会行为的影响。独立的自我解释被定义为那些关注个人属性和强调自主性的自我解释。相互依赖的自我构建是那些关注于亲密关系或群体成员中的角色，并强调与他人的联系的自我构建（见Markus和Kitayama， 1991）。虽然过去关于自我解释的研究主要集中在文化差异上，但相对独立与相互依赖的自我解释也可能通过启动被情境激活（例如，Brewer和Gardner， 1996），因此自我解释作为理解自我、他人和社会行为的解释框架的能力可以在文化比较之外进行研究。本文提出了五项研究来考察被认为受独立和相互依存的自我解释的相对可及性影响的基本过程，并探讨这些过程对群体行为的影响。假设从独立的自我解释向相互依赖的自我解释的转变将：(1)将自我评价从强调社会比较过程（亲密他人的成功威胁自尊）转变为强调社会反思过程（亲密他人的成功增强自尊）（例如，Tesser, 1988）；(2)将自我调节从强调自己的自我指导和标准转向强调他人的指导和标准（例如，Higgins, 1987）；(3)将使用的控制策略从强调主动控制（通过改变社会环境以适应自我的需要）转变为强调反应控制（通过改变自我以适应社会环境）（例如，Rothbaum et al., 1982）。然后将从群体行为的角度考察可获得的独立和相互依赖的自我构建的含义；从独立的自我解释到相互依赖的自我解释的转变应该(4)鼓励在“公地困境”中追求集体利益而不是个人利益，并且应该(5)在集体努力中阻止“社会懒惰”。

项目成果

When you and I are "we," you are not threatening: the role of self-expansion in social comparison.

• DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.82.2.239
• 发表时间: 2002-02
• 期刊: Journal of personality and social psychology
• 影响因子: 7.6
• 作者: W. Gardner;Shira Gabriel;Laura Hochschild