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A longitudinal-experimental test of the panculturality of self-enhancement: Self-enhancement promotes psychological well-being both in the west and the east
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Journal of Research in Personality . Apr2012, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p157-163. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Abstract: Intensely debated is whether the self-enhancement motive is culturally relative or universal. The universalist perspective predicts that satisfaction of the motive panculturally promotes psychological well-being. The relativistic perspective predicts that such promotive effects are restricted to Western culture. A longitudinal-randomized-experiment conducted in China and the US tested the competing predictions. Participants completed measures of psychological well-being in an initial session. A week later participants listed a personally important attribute, described (via random assignment) how that attribute is more (self-enhancement) or less (self-effacement) descriptive of self than others, and again reported their psychological well-being. Consistent with the universalist perspective, self-enhancement significantly increased psychological well-being from baseline in the US and China; self-effacement yielded no change in psychological well-being in either culture. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00926566
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 73490329
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2012.01.001