| Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture? | |
Cai, Huajian1 ; Sedikides, Constantine2; Gaertner, Lowell3; Wang, Chenjun4; Carvallo, Mauricio5; Xu, Yiyuan6; O'Mara, Erin M.3; Jackson, Lydia Eckstein3; Cai, HJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, 4A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
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| 心理所单位排序 | 1 |
| 摘要 | Is self-enhancement culturally universal or relativistic? This article highlights a nuanced dynamic in East Asian culture. Modesty is a prevailing norm in China. The authors hypothesized that because of socialization practices and prohibitive cultural pressures, modesty would be associated with and lead to low explicit self-enhancement but high implicit self-enhancement, that Chinese participants would deemphasize explicitly the positivity of the self when high on modesty or situationally prompted to behave modestly but would capitalize on their modest disposition or situationally induced behavior to emphasize implicitly the positivity of the self. In support of the hypotheses, dispositionally or situationally modest Chinese participants manifested low explicit self-esteem while manifesting high implicit self-esteem. Modesty among American participants constrained explicit self-esteem but yielded no associations with implicit self-esteem. The results showcase the tactical nature of self-enhancement in Chinese culture and call for research on when and how self-enhancement is pursued tactically in different cultures. |
| 关键词 | self-enhancement modesty implicit self-esteem explicit self-esteem tactical self-enhancement |
| 学科领域 | Cultural Psychology |
| 2011 | |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 发表期刊 | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
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| ISSN | 1948-5506 |
| 卷号 | 2期号:1页码:59-64 |
| 期刊论文类型 | Article |
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| 收录类别 | SSCI |
| 项目简介 | Is self-enhancement culturally universal or relativistic? This article highlights a nuanced dynamic in East Asian culture. Modesty is a prevailing norm in China. The authors hypothesized that because of socialization practices and prohibitive cultural pressures, modesty would be associated with and lead to low explicit self-enhancement but high implicit self-enhancement, that Chinese participants would deemphasize explicitly the positivity of the self when high on modesty or situationally prompted to behave modestly but would capitalize on their modest disposition or situationally induced behavior to emphasize implicitly the positivity of the self. In support of the hypotheses, dispositionally or situationally modest Chinese participants manifested low explicit self-esteem while manifesting high implicit self-esteem. Modesty among American participants constrained explicit self-esteem but yielded no associations with implicit self-esteem. The results showcase the tactical nature of self-enhancement in Chinese culture and call for research on when and how self-enhancement is pursued tactically in different cultures. |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000208992000009 |
| 资助机构 | Is self-enhancement culturally universal or relativistic? This article highlights a nuanced dynamic in East Asian culture. Modesty is a prevailing norm in China. The authors hypothesized that because of socialization practices and prohibitive cultural pressures, modesty would be associated with and lead to low explicit self-enhancement but high implicit self-enhancement, that Chinese participants would deemphasize explicitly the positivity of the self when high on modesty or situationally prompted to behave modestly but would capitalize on their modest disposition or situationally induced behavior to emphasize implicitly the positivity of the self. In support of the hypotheses, dispositionally or situationally modest Chinese participants manifested low explicit self-esteem while manifesting high implicit self-esteem. Modesty among American participants constrained explicit self-esteem but yielded no associations with implicit self-esteem. The results showcase the tactical nature of self-enhancement in Chinese culture and call for research on when and how self-enhancement is pursued tactically in different cultures. |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13276 |
| 专题 | 社会与工程心理学研究室 |
| 通讯作者 | Cai, HJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, 4A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China. |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Southampton, Ctr Res Self & Ident, Southampton, Hants, England 3.Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA 4.Sun Yat Sen Univ, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China 5.Univ Oklahoma, Dept Psychol, Norman, OK 73019 USA 6.Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Psychol, Manoa, HI USA |
| 第一作者单位 | 中国科学院心理研究所 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cai, Huajian,Sedikides, Constantine,Gaertner, Lowell,et al. Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?[J]. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE,2011,2(1):59-64. |
| APA | Cai, Huajian.,Sedikides, Constantine.,Gaertner, Lowell.,Wang, Chenjun.,Carvallo, Mauricio.,...&Cai, HJ .(2011).Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?.SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE,2(1),59-64. |
| MLA | Cai, Huajian,et al."Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?".SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 2.1(2011):59-64. |
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