Rethinking individualism and collectivism: evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta-analyses.

By D. Oyserman, Heather M. Coon, Markus Kemmelmeier. Psychological bulletin, 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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2. Maarten Vansteenkiste
3. J. Reeve
4. Edward L. Deci
5. Bart Soenens
6. E. Diener
7. D. Oyserman
8. S. Cheon

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4. Robert M. Klassen
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6. E. Hardin
7. Norbert Schwarz
8. Seth J. Schwartz

Citations in the corpus

• Gender and Sources of Subjective Well-Being (2004, background): “The measure was initially developed with ethnically diverse samples (Singelis, 1994), and it is regularly used to study differences in self-definition among nations and among ethnic groups within the United States (see Oyserman et al., 2002 ).”
• A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “The cultural movement has grappled with conceptual and operational definitions of collectivism (Kim et al., 1994; Oyserman et al., 2002).”
• Self-Reports in Consumer Research: The Challenge of Comparing Cohorts and Cultures (2003, background): “They conceptualize the self as fundamentally distinct from others and defined in terms of internal features such as attributes, abilities, and attitudes (e.g. Markus and Kitayama 1991; Oyserman, Coon, and Kemmelmeier 2002).”
• Perceptions of the transition to adulthood among Chinese and American emerging adults (2006, background): “Some researchers are beginning to rethink how they conceptualize individualism and collectivism because these distinctions are not as easily discernible in cultures when placed under statistical analysis (Oyserman et al., 2002).”
• Attachment avoidance and the cultural fit hypothesis: A cross-cultural investigation (2010, background): “The majority of past research on individualism and collectivism has compared individuals in Western societies with individuals from Confucian-heritage cultures only (e.g., Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Korea; see Oyserman et al., 2002).”
• Does Culture Influence Asset Managers? Views and Behavior? (2008, methodology): “It has been (re-)defined, analyzed in detail, and combined with selected topics4 – both, theoretically and empirically (see Triadis, 1995, or Oysermann et al., 2002, for a broad overview).”
• What's wrong with cross-cultural comparisons of subjective Likert scales?: The reference-group effect. (2002, methodology): “Prior to encountering the Oyserman et al. (2002) paper, we conducted our own review of IC studies that compared East Asians and North Americans.(1) We searched PsycINFO with the keywords collectivism, individualism, independent, or interdependent and the keywords Asian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Ho”
• Standardization preferences: a function of national culture, work interdependence and local embeddedness (2006, background): “In terms of work relationships, feminine societies are more associated with consensus seeking and cooperation, emphasis on solidarity, equality and quality of work life, better working conditions and employment security.”