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Inclusion of additional studies yields different conclusions: Comment on Sedikides, Gaertner, & Vevea (2005), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Source :
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology; Jun2007, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p49-58, 10p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- In a Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article, Sedikides, Gaertner and Vevea (2005) presented two meta-analyses that included eight papers to investigate the question of whether people from Eastern cultures self-enhance more for traits that they view to be important compared to those that they view as unimportant. The results supported their hypothesis: Self-enhancement appears to be pancultural. However, this conclusion is severely compromised by six relevant papers that are not included in their meta-analyses. Importantly, all of these six studies contradicted their hypothesis. When complete meta-analyses are conducted which include all of the relevant papers, a very different pattern of results emerges. Eastern and Western cultures do not differ from each other in the pattern of their self-enhancement of independent and interdependent traits. Furthermore, whereas Westerners self-enhanced significantly more for traits that they viewed to be especially important, East Asians did not. Contrary to the Sedikides et al. (2005) suggestion, the existing evidence suggests substantial cross-cultural variation in self-enhancement, with Westerners being far more self-enhancing than Easterners. Reasons for the conflicting pattern of findings across methods and meta-analyses are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- META-analysis
CULTURE
PSYCHOMETRICS
HISTORICAL sociology
CULTURAL movements
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13672223
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25007436
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2007.00211.x