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Culture and self-concept stability: Consistency across and within contexts among Asian Americans and European Americans
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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 1a 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.
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Keyword:
consistency; culture; interactionism; relational self; self-concept
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.409.617
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Self-organizing Conceptual Map and Taxonomy of Adjectives
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In: http://condor.depaul.edu/ntomuro/research/maics07.pdf
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A Feature Selection Methods Based on Concept Extraction and SOM Text Clustering Analysis
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In: http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/200601/200601A04.pdf
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A Feature Selection Method Based on Concept Extraction and SOM Text Clustering Analysis
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In: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~liaoss/Site/publications/2006_Jiang_IJCSNS.pdf
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Automated Ontology Evolution as a Basis for User- Adaptive Recommender Interfaces
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In: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-811/paper9.pdf
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Student Variables and Senior Secondary Students ’ Achievement in
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In: http://www.mcser.org/images/stories/MJSS-Special-issues/MJSS-2012+Special+Issue+3+no+14/Daso+Peter+Ojimba.pdf
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