1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Effects of the Cultural view of self upon various types of social behavior.
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10610152
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
教育・社会系心理学
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| Research Institution | NARA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKATA Toshitake Nara University, Faculty of Sociology, Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (20008189)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Keywords | cross-cultural study / cultural view of self / independence / interdependence / self-criticism / self-enhancement / hedonic self-knowledge |
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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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