کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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951673 | 927245 | 2012 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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.
► An experiment tested whether self-enhancement is culturally relative or universal.
► The sample consisted of students in the US and China.
► Self-enhancement increased psychological well-being from baseline in both cultures.
► Findings are consistent with the universalist perspective.
Journal: Journal of Research in Personality - Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 157–163