Are Compassionate and Self-Image Goals Comparable across Cultures?
Authors:
- Dariusz Kuncewicz,
- Yu Niiya,
- Jennifer Crocker
Abstract
This study tested whether compassionate goals to support others and self-image goals to maintain and defend desired self-images: 1) are equivalent constructs across three cultures (U.S., Japan, Poland); 2) overlap with interdependent self-construal; and 3) predict relationships and growth measures similarly in each country. We re-analyzed data from American (n = 130) and Japanese (n = 203) students, reported in Niiya et al. (2013), along with new data from Poland (n = 246). Single and multiple group confirmatory analyses showed that the two-factor structure holds across the three cultures. Interdependence correlated with compassionate and self-image goals only in Japan. In all three samples, compassionate goals correlated with non-zero-sum belief, feeling close, growth-seeking, self-compassion, and learning from failures, whereas self-image goals correlated with defensive responses to conflicts and validation-seeking. Our results suggest that compassionate and self-image goals may serve similar functions in relationships and growth across cultures.
- Record ID
- SWPSdd81b7b01cab462c8afa1250e5cf4d69
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- Journal series
- Polish Psychological Bulletin, ISSN 0079-2993, e-ISSN 1641-7844
- Issue year
- 2015
- Vol
- 46
- No
- 4
- Pages
- 513-522
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- compassionate goals; self-image goals; cultures
- ASJC Classification
- DOI
- DOI:10.1515/ppb-2015-0058 opening in a new tab
- URL
- http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ppb.2015.46.issue-4/ppb-2015-0058/ppb-2015-0058.xml opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- File: 1
- Are Compassionate and Self-Image Goals Comparable across Cultures?, File ppb-2015-0058.pdf / 247 KB
- ppb-2015-0058.pdf
- publication date: 19-01-2016
- Are Compassionate and Self-Image Goals Comparable across Cultures?, File ppb-2015-0058.pdf / 247 KB
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- File: 1
- BROWN_IR-ADV5255_16_0107_001-4.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 15
- Publication indicators
- : 2015 = 0.297
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- http://192.168.13.97/info/article/SWPSdd81b7b01cab462c8afa1250e5cf4d69/
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