| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This research project examined experimentally the relationship between cross-cultural variation in various social behavior based on the independent construal of self (Markus & Kitayama, 1991) and intra-cultural variation displayed as individual differences based on independence and interdependence measured through the cultural view of self scale (Takata., 2000).
A cross cultural experimental study (Heine, Takata, & Lehman, 2000) revealed that Japanese tend exhibit less self-enhancement and more self-criticism than Canadians. Then, it was confirmed that Japanese who have high interdependent scale score tend to show less self-enhancement and more self-criticism than those with high independent score. However, such relationships between self-enhancement/self-criticism and scale scores were not found for Canadians.
As for Japanese, another relationships were also found between scale scores and self-assessment (Trope, 1983), in-group favoritism (Tajfel, 1978), and the hedonic self-knowledge (Takata, 1992). A hypothetical processes underling those cultural differences was discussed.
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