Cross-cultural study on the meaning, function, and determinants of self-esteem : From a perspective of rational choice

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20330131
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: YAMAGUCHI Susumu 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (80134427)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MORIO Hiroaki 関西大学, 総合情報学部, 教授 (80361559)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): YAGI Yasuki 立命館大学, 文学部, 教授 (20210221)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2011
• Keywords: 文化 / 自尊心

Research Abstract

Some researchers have argued in cross-cultural comparison of self-esteem that Japanese particularly and Asians in general have low self-esteem and self-esteem is not important in Asia. Against such claim, this study demonstrated that self-esteem is important for Japanese as well as for the Westerners. Furthermore, modest expression of self-esteem was found to be adaptive in Japan

Research Products

• [Presentation] Further evidence for the universal need for high self-esteem (2011)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Morio, H., Cai, H., Xu, Y., Yagi, Y., Lin, C., Buchholz, C
  • Organizer: Paper presented at The 9th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Kunming, China
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-29
• [Presentation] Self-esteem instability and expectations of the future amongst Italian and Japanese students (2011)
  • Author(s): Fukuzawa, A., Yamaguchi, S., Caprara, G. V., & Alessandri, G
  • Organizer: The 9th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Kunming, China
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-28
• [Presentation] Positive Relation between Self-Esteem Instability and Expectation for Future Examination (2011)
  • Author(s): Fukuzawa, A., Yamaguchi, S., Caprara, G. V., & Alessandri, G
  • Organizer: A replication in Italy. Paper presented at The 13^<th> European Congress of Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-11
• [Presentation] Further Evidence for the Functional Equivalence of Self-Esteem across Cultures (2011)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., & Morio, H
  • Organizer: Presented at the Regional Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-03
• [Presentation] Self-Enhancement among Japanese (2011)
  • Author(s): Morio, H
  • Organizer: Evidence from a classic paradigm. Paper presented at the Regional Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-03
• [Presentation] Denial of yard sticks : Consequence of the combination of volatile self-concepts and implicitly high self-esteem (2010)
  • Author(s): Morio, H., Buchholz, C., & Yamaguchi, S
  • Organizer: Presented at the 20th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 20100000
• [Presentation] Expression of modest self-esteem appears adaptive both in East Asia and the U. S. (2010)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Morio, H., Lin, C., Cai, H., Xu, Y., Yagi, Y.
  • Organizer: Paper presented at the 20^<th> International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-09
• [Presentation] The role of modesty values in the Japanese expression of self-esteem (2010)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S
  • Organizer: Invited talk at the 2010 Jacobs Foundation Conference The role of values and religion in youth development : A culture-informed perspective
  • Place of Presentation: Schloss Marbach, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2010-04-29
• [Presentation] Functional universality of self-esteem across cultures (2009)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Morio, H., Yagi, Y., Lin, C., & Cai, H
  • Organizer: Presented at the 8^<th> biannual meeting of the Asian Association of Social Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: New Delhi, India
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-13
• [Presentation] Relationship among self-esteem instability, achievement motivation, and defensive pessimism (2009)
  • Author(s): Fukuzawa, A., & Yamaguchi, S
  • Organizer: Presented at the 8^<th> biannual meeting of the Asian Association of Social Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: New Delhi, India
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-13
• [Presentation] Functional equivalence of self-esteem in Japanese culture (2009)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Morio, H., Okumura, T., Lin, C., Yagi, Y., Sawaumi, T., Li, Z., Nagashima, Y., & Sugiyama, Y
  • Organizer: Presented at the 6^<th> Biennial Conference of International Academy for Intercultural Research
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu, USA
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-16
• [Presentation] Functional equivalence of self-esteem between Western and East-Asian cultures (2009)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Lin, C., Morio, H., & Okumura, T
  • Organizer: Presented at the 10^<th> annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Tampa, Florida. USA
  • Year and Date: 2009-02-06
• [Presentation] Motivated expression of self-esteem across cultures (2008)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Lin, C., Morio, H
  • Organizer: Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Sacramento, California. USA
  • Year and Date: 2008-10-24
• [Presentation] A critical examination of the East Asians'self-Criticism Hypothesis (2008)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Lin, C., Morio, H., & Okumura, T
  • Organizer: Presented at the The 19th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Bremen, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-07-28
• [Presentation] The influence of negative events on the relation between self-esteem instability and expectation for future among Italian students
  • Author(s): Fukuzawa, A., Yamaguchi, S., Caprara, G. V., & Alessandri, G
  • Organizer: A replication of Japanese study. Paper presented at the Regional Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Istanbul, Turkey
• [Book] Handbookof motivation and cognition across cultures (2008)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Lin, C., Morio, H., & Okumura, T
  • Total Pages: 369-392
  • Publisher: Motivated expressionof self-esteem across cultures. In R. M. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi(Eds.)