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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"self-construals"”.
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Culture and the Perceived Reparability of Shame: The Role of Self-Construals
… (i.e., repairing the culturally-congruent self); especially when that aspect of self is shamed. Four studies test this hypothesis by randomly assigning individuals to experience (Study 1) or recall (Study 2 through 4) a shameful situation that targeted the independent or interdependent …
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Team structure as precursor of individuals' self construals---a multidimensional and multi-level investigation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management, 2010
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Parental Emotion Socialization of Seventh and Eighth Graders: Gender Differences in Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals
… and children's independent and interdependent self-construals with sixty 7th and 8th grade children. Children were interviewed with the Self-Guide Questionnaire (Higgins, Klein, & Strauman, 1985) and completed an independent and interdependent reaction time measure (Watson & Quatman, 2005). …
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Parental emotion socialization in Chinese and US families: Roles of parents' beliefs about emotions and self-construals
… I examined parents' beliefs about emotions and self-construals as two sets of distinct factors guiding parental ES responses in China and the United States (US). Three emotion-related beliefs (manipulation [children can use emotions to manipulate parents]; parental knowledge [parents have to …
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Do Women Have an Advantage When Leading Across Groups? An Examination of Gender, Self-Construals, and Intergroup Leadership
<p>Intergroup leadership, self-construals, and gender are relatively well researched. However, there has been limited research that has looked at the interplay between these areas of research. For example, past research has shown women’s tendency towards an interdependent self-construal (Cross & …
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Independent and interdependent self-construals as moderators of links between parents' beliefs about emotions and their emotion socialization behaviors in Chinese families
… whereby parents’ independent and interdependent self-construals were proposed to moderate associations of parents’ beliefs about children’s emotions with parents’ ES, which in turn relate to children’s social competence. Seventy-five Chinese parents (65 mothers, 10 fathers) with children in …
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Parents' Self -Views: Implications for Parents' Use of Control With Their Children and Parents' Mental Health
… that parents who include their children in their self-construals are particularly likely to use control with their children because they see their own self-worth as contingent on their children's performance. It was also expected that parents' self-construals would play a role in their mental …
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The interdependent self-construal as a moderator in using relationships as natural categories
The self-concept can be thought of as a highly organized and well-elaborated knowledge structure, or schema, and this knowledge structure becomes increasingly differentiated with age (Brown, 1998; Markus, 1977). Variations in how people think about themselves have been shown to impact information …
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An empirical investigation of how the impact of the four self-congruity types on brand attitude varies depending on an individual's self-construals, cosmopolitan and local orientaion.
… impact of an individual’s dominant independent self-construal, interdependent self-construal, cosmopolitan and local orientation on the effect of the four self-congruity types (actual, ideal, social, ideal social) on brand attitude. A widely used practice among marketers focuses on communicating …
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Cultural Values Reflected in Chinese Advertisements: Self -Construal and Persuasion Implications
… shift individuals' cultural orientations (self-construals). And third, such value-shifting influences individuals' attitudes, thoughts, and behavioral choices. Three studies were conducted focusing on the Chinese X-Generation market and comparing it with the mass market. In Study 1, content …
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Self-Construal Moderates Testosterone Reactivity To Competitive Outcomes
… examined whether one individual difference--self-construal--would moderate these effects. In Study 1, participants were assigned to win or lose a competitive video game and engaged in a reactive aggression task. Results indicated that increases in testosterone in response to winning and …
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Social Support Seeking Processes in Japan and the United States: A Multi-layered Approach
… patterns (FCP) as meso-cultural variables, self-construals as culturally influenced individual variables, and face concerns as situational and relational variables. Using the FNT framework, the current study focused on the following five aspects: (a) cross-cultural comparisons of the amount …
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Coping with Intergenerational Conflict Among Chinese Canadian Emerging Adults: Testing a Cultural and Contextual Model with a Mixed-Methods Approach
… coping were associated with interdependent self-construals, engagement coping was associated with a combination of independent and interdependent self-construals. Private emotional outlets, on the other hand, were primarily associated with the severity of intergenerational conflict. …
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Defending the self: the role of the relational-interdependent self-construal
<p>Individuals with relational-interdependent self-construals define themselves based on their important relationships. This organization of the self-concept has implications for self-enhancement and self-protection. High relationals should be motivated to maintain and strengthen important …
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Reacting to negative self-relevant information in an interpersonal context
… three experiments to examine the impact self-construal, feedback source and interpersonal contexts have on one’s reactions to negative self-relevant information. In these experiments, characteristics of contexts including audience’s status, audience’s standard, audience’s performance and …
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A uses and gratifications perspective of Chinese college students' motivations in using renren (Chinese social networking site)
… that is, socializing, entertainment, self-status seeking, and information seeking, were utilized to measure how much weight Chinese college students give to each motivation.</p> <p>Culture's impact on the usage of online social networking sites was also investigated. The concept of …
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The Stigma of Depression Across Cultures: The Role of Theory of Mind
… symptoms of depression, levels of acculturation, self-construals, and a behavioural task of social perception. The findings revealed significant cross-cultural differences in acceptance of depression, willingness to seek treatment for it, understanding of where depression comes from, and overall …
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Social Attention in Diverse Social Worlds: Biculturalism, Racial Diversity, and Regional Culture Shape Gaze Cueing Behaviour
… whether priming interdependent vs. independent self-construals can influence gaze cueing by increasing or decreasing interference from the background gazes in two different cultural populations. We found that interdependent self-construal priming was effective for bicultural East Asian …
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Individualism and Interdependence: Tapping into the Third Self-Construal
… when it comes to describing an individual’s self-construal much of the focus is on its interdependent and independent aspects or dimensions. Individuals with a more independent self-construal are generally more focused on their own goals and driven by their needs and are usually autonomous …
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Validation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale With a Hong Kong Sample
… guiding and organising how the person processes self-related information (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder, 1993). Being one of the domains of the self-concept, athletic identity is the “degree of importance, strength, and exclusivity attached to the athlete role that is maintained by the athletes …