Journal article
Relating Self-Concept Consistency to Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Eight Cultures
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol.45(5), pp.695-712
2014
Abstract
Western theories suggest that self-concept consistency is important for well-being, but cultural psychologists have proposed that this relationship may be weaker in collectivistic or dialectical cultures. Hypotheses regarding the ability of self-concept (cross-role) consistency and short-term stability to predict hedonic and eudaimonic well-being across cultures were tested. College students in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Venezuela, the Philippines, Malaysia, China, and Japan rated their traits in various roles at test and retest and completed measures of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. In all cultures, cross-role consistency and short-term stability were inversely associated with negative affect, an aspect of hedonic well-being, and positively associated with Big Five Emotional Stability. In contrast, cross-role consistency and short-term stability were related to eudaimonic well-being more reliably in individualistic cultures than in collectivistic cultures, although the results in China only partially conformed to this pattern. We concluded that cross-role variability and short-term instability of self-concepts have a significant temperamental or affective basis, and this temperamental basis is a cultural universal. In addition, cultural psychology predictions of a weaker relationship between self-concept consistency and well-being in collectivistic cultures, as compared with individualistic cultures, were largely supported for eudaimonic well-being.
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- Title
- Relating Self-Concept Consistency to Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Eight Cultures
- Authors/Creators
- A.T. Church (Author/Creator) - Washington State UniversityM.S. Katigbak (Author/Creator) - Washington State UniversityJ. Ibanez-Reyes (Author/Creator) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoJ. de Jesus Vargas-Flores (Author/Creator) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoG.J. Curtis (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityJ. Tanaka-Matsumi (Author/Creator) - Kwansei Gakuin UniversityH F. Cabrera (Author/Creator) - University of Santo TomasK.A. Mastor (Author/Creator) - National University of MalaysiaH. Zhang (Author/Creator) - Beijing Normal UniversityJ. Shen (Author/Creator) - Beijing Normal UniversityK.D. Locke (Author/Creator) - University of IdahoJ.M. Alvarez (Author/Creator) - Washington State UniversityC.M. Ching (Author/Creator) - Washington State UniversityF.A. Ortiz (Author/Creator) - Gonzaga UniversityJ.-Y.R. Simon (Author/Creator) - Central University of Venezuela
- Publication Details
- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol.45(5), pp.695-712
- Publisher
- Sage
- Identifiers
- 991005540263407891
- Copyright
- The Authors
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology and Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Note
- Published online 19 March 2014
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