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Self‐Construal and Concerns Elicited by Imagined and Real Health Problems 1
Author(s) -
Uskul Ayse K.,
Hynie Michaela
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00283.x
Subject(s) - construal level theory , psychology , recall , self construal , social psychology , cognitive psychology , interdependence , political science , law
In 2 studies, we examined the relationship between self‐construal and illness‐related concerns. In Study 1, participants imagined themselves experiencing a health problem described in a scenario and answered closed‐ended questions about the concerns that this situation would likely elicit. The experience of social illness concerns was predicted by collective self‐construal, and the experience of personal illness concerns tended to be predicted by endorsement of individual self‐construal. In Study 2, participants recalled a past health problem and related consequences, which were content‐coded. Collective self‐construal predicted the extent to which people mentioned issues related to others in their free‐recall illness descriptions and the number of other‐related consequences that were generated when specifically asked about them.