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Veröffentlicht am 10. Mai 2023
Dr. Meral Gezici Yalçın (IKG) and her colleagues (Ayse K. Uskul, Alexander Kirchner-Häusler, Vivian L. Vignoles, Rosa Rodriguez-Bailón, Vanessa A. Castillo, Susan E. Cross, Charles Harb, Shenel Husnu, Keiko Ishii, Shuxian Jin, Panagiota Karamaouna, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Evangelia Kateri, Juan Matamoros-Lima, Daqing Liu, Rania Miniesy, Jinkyung Na, Zafer Özkan, Stefano Pagliaro, Charis Psaltis, Dina Rabie, Manuel Teresi, and Yukiko Uchidahave) have published an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology:

Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies.

Abstract:
"Social science research has highlighted “honor” 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. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)"

(Meral Gezici Yalçın)

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