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Cultural differences in estimation of other people's self‐construals: Comparison of Korea and USA
Author(s) -
Park Hee Sun,
Ahn Ji Young
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2008.00255.x
Subject(s) - self construal , psychology , interdependence , construals , social psychology , construal level theory , political science , law
The current study examined cultural differences in the relationship between individuals' self‐ratings and their estimation of others on independent and interdependent self‐construals. With data from undergraduates in the USA and Korea, findings showed that, in both USA and Korea, participants rated themselves higher than others on independent self‐construal. For interdependent self‐construal, however, Korean participants rated themselves higher than others, whereas American participants rated themselves lower than others. The positive relationship between self‐esteem and the extent to which self‐ratings exceeded ratings of others on independent self‐construal was stronger for Korean than for American participants.