Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Strategies in China: Cultural Expressions of a Fundamental Human Motive

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	Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Strategies in China: Cultural Expressions of a Fundamental Human Motive
	Hepper, Erica G.; Sedikides, Constantine; Cai, Huajian; Cai, HJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, 4A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
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摘要	The motive to enhance and protect positive views of the self manifests in a variety of cognitive and behavioral strategies, but its universality versus cultural specificity is debated by scholars. We sought to inform this debate by soliciting self-reports of the four principal types of self-enhancement and self-protection strategy (positivity embracement, favorable construals, self-affirming reflections, defensiveness) from a Chinese sample and comparing their structure, levels, and correlates to a Western sample. The Chinese data fit the same factor structure and were subject to the same individual differences in regulatory focus, self-esteem, and narcissism, as the Western data. Chinese participants reported lower levels of (enhancement-oriented) positivity embracement but higher levels of (protection-oriented) defensiveness than Western participants. Levels of favorable construals were also higher in the Chinese sample, with no differences in self-affirming reflections. These findings support and extend the universalist perspective on the self by demonstrating the cross-cultural structure, yet culturally sensitive manifestation, of self-enhancement motivation.
关键词	self-enhancement self-protection culture self-esteem narcissism
学科领域	Personality Psychology,Cultural Psychology
	2013
语种	英语
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	0022-0221
卷号	44 期号:1 页码:5-23
期刊论文类型	期刊论文
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收录类别	SCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000312008000001
引用统计	被引频次：58[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10677
专题	社会与工程心理学研究室
通讯作者	Cai, HJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, 4A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
作者单位	Cai, HJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, 4A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hepper, Erica G.,Sedikides, Constantine,Cai, Huajian,et al. Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Strategies in China: Cultural Expressions of a Fundamental Human Motive[J]. JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY,2013,44(1):5-23.
APA	Hepper, Erica G.,Sedikides, Constantine,Cai, Huajian,&Cai, HJ .(2013).Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Strategies in China: Cultural Expressions of a Fundamental Human Motive.JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY,44(1),5-23.
MLA	Hepper, Erica G.,et al."Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Strategies in China: Cultural Expressions of a Fundamental Human Motive".JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY 44.1(2013):5-23.

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