Independent self-concept promotes group creativity in a collectivistic cultural context only when the group norm supports collectivism.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayeon Lee ◽  
Hoon-Seok Choi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Group Norm

scholarly journals Authenticity in Context: Being True to Working Selves

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Level I ◽  
Context Specific

The core premise of this article is that it is scientifically informative and psychologically meaningful to conceptualize and assess authenticity in context. I begin by providing some theoretical background on the nature of the self-concept, highlighting how the self-concept is composed of a collection of selves, with different selves activated and therefore at play in different contexts. This basic fact, that the self-concept is both multifaceted and malleable, implies that authenticity is a construct that requires study at a contextual level. I illustrate this by reviewing theory and findings from 3 areas of research, incorporating studies from my laboratory throughout. These areas are (a) authenticity in the context of close relationships; (b) authenticity in hierarchical contexts, wherein one occupies a lower versus higher position of social power; and (c) authenticity in relation to the larger cultural context. Finally, I address a number of issues and questions that arise when considering authenticity in context and propose a number of directions for future research on the context-specific nature of authenticity.

Culture Is Associated With the Experience of Long-Term Self-Concept Changes

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1047-1056
Author(s):  
Brian W. Haas ◽  
Michelle R. vanDellen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Over Time

Cultural context can affect how changes in self-concepts are either valued or tolerated. However, very little is currently known regarding how culture may differentially confer consequences to people that change their self-concepts over the course of several years. We investigated the moderating role of culture (Japan and USA) on the link between long-term (∼4 years) self-concept changes and a comprehensive set of well-being measures (hedonic, eudaimonic, and family based). We found that American’s self-concept instability was more negatively associated with one’s well-being and emotional support within one’s family than Japanese. Furthermore, Americans were particularly negatively impacted when they became less agentic and conscientious over time. One possible interpretation is that Western, individualistic cultures may discourage people from changing their identities throughout their adult life. Although American culture often espouses the sanctity of freedom, American culture may also limit people’s freedom to change how they see themselves over time.

PERSONAL AND FAMILY PATHS TO PUPIL ACHIEVEMENT

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 907-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bader O. Alomar
Keyword(s):  
Parent Education ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Prior Achievement ◽  
Fit Index

Personal and family factors impacting directly and/or indirectly on academic achievement of a total of 751 eighth grade pupils were assessed. Six achievement tests, as well as pupil and parent questionnaires were used for generating empirical data. A structural equation model was used to test the model's applicability. Path analysis yielded a comparative fit index of .97. Prior achievement, gender, and academic self-concept were found to have highly significant direct impacts on achievement, while academic self-concept, family size, parent education, and family cultural context exhibited indirect effects on achievement. The overall effect of academic self-concept increased significantly over and above the direct and indirect effects. The intervariables effects provided additional insights into existing correlations.

scholarly journals THE USE OF READING STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC READING BY INDONESIAN LEARNERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Erni Erni
Keyword(s):  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
High Group ◽  
Academic Reading

This case study explores the Indonesian learners' reading strategies and identifies high and low-group learners' reading strategies. Semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, and open-ended questions were triangulated for validity and reliability data. Several findings were revealed. The Indonesian learners read critically and varied through cognitive, metacognitive, and affective strategies. They applied more cognitive strategies than metacognitive and affective strategies, which was less helpful and less encouraged to think critically. Technology advances, self- concept, and time have affected the strategies used. High and low-group learners also read differently in terms of cognitive, metacognitive, and affective strategies. The high group learners read efficiently, critically with various reading strategies, while the low group learners are more literal, attractive, but straightforward, and specific in reading strategy. This implied that students need to be facilitated with proper reading strategies and reading facilities and use metacognitive strategy to enable critical thinking and affective strategy to overcome anxiety, fear, and relaxation. The socio-cultural strategy needs to be used by learners to reach the four skills required by the Indonesian new curriculum. Meanings were shaped by social interaction and cultural context, which then created fun learning and a conducive learning environment.

scholarly journals ‘Everything is autobiographical’: Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s idiolect in Lost (1999)

Literator ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
German Society ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
World War ◽  
Theoretical Possibility ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Second World

Joachim Dicks writes in his review on Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s latest novel, Frühe Störung,that the author shows continuity by having developed in all of his books a unique and unmistakeable style that he calls ‘the so-called Treichel sound’. Treichel’s style, tone and mixture of thematic concerns in all of his eleven works of prose from Von Leib und Seele: Berichte up to Frühe Störung are indeed recognisable as distinctively Treichel, but has remained an unexplored terrain. The question therefore arises: What is the nature of the so-called ‘Treichel sound’ or his idiolect? Lost is a case in point with regard to Treichel’s idiolect: the narration includes factual historical and autobiographic information that represents both an ‘official life’ and a ‘carnival’, i.e. his representations of lives are determined by two aspects of theworld: the aspect of the piety of seriousness and by the aspect of laughter. This article firstly focuses on the theoretical possibility of using ‘serious’ factual autobiographic and historical information in combination with humour. The most prominent idiolectic traits of Treichel’soeuvre are then introduced, also in order to provide a context for the following discussion of Lost. Here it becomes apparent that Treichel’s humour has a tragicomical and derisive effect with regard to the narrator’s depiction of his childhood, family experiences and his cultural context. The microcosmic family context and the macrocosmic national and international contexts as they were formed because of the Second World War has lead to a loss of the narrator’s identity. The result of Treichel’s manner of dealing with serious contents that includes humour is the creation of a self-concept that can be described as self-exploratory,honest or confessional, self-centred, humorous and critical of German society - and these are also key features of Treichel’s idiolect. This article thus argues that the combination offictionalised serious historical and autobiographic factuality and humour characterises the ‘Treichel sound’.

Attuned Sexuality

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Sonya Satinsky ◽  
Virginia Ramseyer Winter
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Protective Strategies ◽  
And Function

Attuned sexuality is an ideal state where an individual’s sexual self-concept and experiences encompass desired levels of sexual connection, desire, self-concept, functioning, and expression. Attuned sexuality includes not only positive body image but also positively constructed notions of sexual agency and function, access to one’s sexual desires, use of protective strategies to protect and nurture one’s body, and the ability to tune mindfully into bodily pleasures in sexual contexts. Comparable to other aspects of positive embodiment, attuned sexuality as a construct is highly influenced by cultural context, power dynamics, and sociodemographics such as race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and body size. Attuned sexuality has not yet been comprehensively conceptualized or assessed in existing literature. This chapter assesses the state of the literature on components of attuned sexuality, offering views across multiple disciplines and concluding with potential future directions for theorization of this construct and its utilization in applied settings.

Life satisfaction, self-concept, and family relations in Chinese adolescents and children

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Chang ◽  
Catherine Mcbride-Chang ◽  
Sunita M. Stewart ◽  
Ernest Au
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Emotional Detachment

Subjective well-being across the life span may be affected by both age-specific and age-general factors within a cultural context. Thus, this study explored both developmentally invariant and variable predictors of life satisfaction among 115 second-graders and 74 eighth-graders from Hong Kong. In a regression model, general self-concept and ratings of parental warmth and autonomy/detachment predicted life satisfaction equally across the two age groups. However, social self-concept was a strong predictor of life satisfaction among adolescents only, whereas actual academic test scores predicted life satisfaction only among the children. Mean group differences emerged as well, with adolescents scoring significantly lower in life satisfaction and self-concept and higher in emotional detachment than children. Results are explained in relation to both development and culture.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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