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Culture and Well-BeingFrom Culture to Priming Conditions: Self-Construal Influences on Life Satisfaction Judgments

Culture and Well-Being: From Culture to Priming Conditions: Self-Construal Influences on Life... [Existing cross-cultural research often assumes that the independent versus interdependent self-construal process leads to different cultural behaviors, although few studies directly test this link. Extending from prior cross-cultural findings, two studies were conducted to explicitly test whether self-construal is linked with the differential use of emotions versus social information in judgments of life satisfaction. Study 1 confirmed the prediction that even among Americans, those who view themselves in interdependent terms (allocentrics) evaluate their life satisfaction in a more collectivistic manner (strong reliance on social appraisal) than those who view themselves in independent terms (idiocentrics). Study 2 replicated these findings in two cultural settings (United States and Korea) by using experimental primes of independent versus relational self-construal. Results strongly suggest that differences in self-construal processes underlie cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction judgments.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Culture and Well-BeingFrom Culture to Priming Conditions: Self-Construal Influences on Life Satisfaction Judgments

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 38)
Editors: Diener, Ed
Suh, Eunkook M.; Diener, Ed; Updegraff, John A.
Culture and Well-Being — Jan 1, 2009
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Netherlands 2009
ISBN
978-90-481-2351-3
Pages
129 –142
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-2352-0_7
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Abstract

[Existing cross-cultural research often assumes that the independent versus interdependent self-construal process leads to different cultural behaviors, although few studies directly test this link. Extending from prior cross-cultural findings, two studies were conducted to explicitly test whether self-construal is linked with the differential use of emotions versus social information in judgments of life satisfaction. Study 1 confirmed the prediction that even among Americans, those who view themselves in interdependent terms (allocentrics) evaluate their life satisfaction in a more collectivistic manner (strong reliance on social appraisal) than those who view themselves in independent terms (idiocentrics). Study 2 replicated these findings in two cultural settings (United States and Korea) by using experimental primes of independent versus relational self-construal. Results strongly suggest that differences in self-construal processes underlie cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction judgments.]

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Emotion Category; Global Life Satisfaction; Social Indicator Research; Social Psychology Bulletin

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