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Individualism‐Collectivism and Personality
Author(s) -
Triandis Harry C.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.696169
Subject(s) - collectivism , psychology , personality , situational ethics , social psychology , individualism , attribution , ingroups and outgroups , context (archaeology) , individualistic culture , social environment , developmental psychology , sociology , paleontology , social science , political science , law , biology
This paper provides a review of the main findings concerning the relationship between the cultural syndromes of individualism and collectivism and personality. People in collectivist cultures, compared to people in individualist cultures, are likely to define themselves as aspects of groups, to give priority to in‐group goals, to focus on context more than the content in making attributions and in communicating, to pay less attention to internal than to external processes as determinants of social behavior, to define most relationships with ingroup members as communal, to make more situational attributions, and tend to be self‐effacing.