Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of Independence and Interdependence in Mediterranean Societies

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-67787-001" target="_blank" >https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-67787-001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000342" target="_blank" >10.1037/pspa0000342</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of Independence and Interdependence in Mediterranean Societies

Original language description

Social science research has highlighted &quot;honor&quot; as a central value driving social behavior in Mediterranean societies, which requires individuals to develop and protect a sense of their personal self-worth and their social reputation, through assertiveness, competitiveness, and retaliation in the face of threats. We predicted that members of Mediterranean societies may exhibit a distinctive combination of independent and interdependent social orientation, self-construal, and cognitive style, compared to more commonly studied East Asian and Anglo-Western cultural groups. We compared participants from eight Mediterranean societies (Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus [Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities], Lebanon, Egypt) to participants from East Asian (Korea, Japan) and Anglo-Western (the United Kingdom, the United States) societies, using six implicit social orientation indicators, an eight-dimensional self-construal scale, and four cognitive style indicators. Compared with both East Asian and Anglo-Western samples, samples from Mediterranean societies distinctively emphasized several forms of independence (relative intensity of disengaging [vs. engaging] emotions, happiness based on disengaging [vs. engaging] emotions, dispositional [vs. situational] attribution style, self-construal as different from others, self-directed, self-reliant, self-expressive, and consistent) and interdependence (closeness to in-group [vs. out-group] members, self-construal as connected and committed to close others). Our findings extend previous insights into patterns of cultural orientation beyond commonly examined East-West comparisons to an understudied world region.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

ISSN

0022-3514

e-ISSN

1939-1315

Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Early access

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

471-495

UT code for WoS article

000980129100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85153239597