Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism: personhood beliefs across 37 national groups
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2013
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Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), showing good psychometric properties for cross-cultural use and correlating well at the nation level with other supposed facets and indicators of I-C. In Study 2 (N = 7,623), nation-level contextualism predicted ingroup favoritism, corruption and differential trust of ingroup and outgroup members, while controlling for other facets of I-C, across 34 nations. We conclude that contextualism is an important part of cultural collectivism. This highlights the importance of beliefs alongside values and self-representations, and contributes to a wider understanding of cultural processes. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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Owe , E , Vignoles , V L , Becker , M , Brown , R , Smith , P B , Lee , S W , Easterbrook , M , Gadre , T , Zhang , X , Gheorghiu , M , Baguma , P , Tatarko , A , Aldhafri , S , Zinkeng , M , Schwartz , S J , Shneyderman , Y , Villamar , J , Mekonnen , K H , Regalia , C , Manzi , C , Brambilla , M , Caglar , E , Gavriliuc , A , Martin , M , Jianxin , Z , Lv , S , Fischer , R , Milfont , T , Torres , A , Camino , L , Kreuzbauer , R , Gausel , N , Buitendach , J , Lemos , F , Fritsche , I , Moller , B , Harb , C , Valk , A , Espinosa , A , Jaafar , J L , Yuki , M , Ferreira , M C , Chobthamkit , P , Fulop , M , Chybicka , A , Wang , Q , Bond , M H , Gonzalez , R , Didier , N , Carrasco , D , Cadena , M P , Lay , S , Gardarsdottir , R , Nizharadze , G , Pyszczynski , T , Kesebir , P , Herman , G , Bourguignon , D , De Sauvage , I , Ozgen , E , Guner , U E , Yamakoglu , N , Abuhamdeh , S , Macapagal , M , Koller , S H , Amponsah , B , Misra , G , Kapur , P , Trujillo , E V , Balanta , P , Ayala , B C , Gallo , I S , Gill , P P , Clemares , R L , Campara , G & Jalal , B 2013 , ' Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism: personhood beliefs across 37 national groups ' Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology , vol 44 , no. 1 , pp. 24-45 . DOI: 10.1177/0022022111430255 |
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