Self-Enhancement: Is it Restricted to Individualistic Cultures?

By J. Kurman. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Mapping symbolic (anti-) consumption (2009, background): “Debates about the role of self-enhancement across cultures (Heine and Lehman, 1999; Markus and Kitayama, 1991) include the view that “lack of selfenhancement is intrinsic to the interdependent self” (Kurman, 2001, p. 1706).”
• Independent and Interdependent Self-construals and Socio-cultural Factors in 29 Nations (2005, background): “Kurman (2001) confirmed that respondents from Singapore scored lower in independence than (supposedly) individualistic Jews and collectivist Israeli druzes -the latter scored higher than the other two groups on Interdependence.”
• Language and the Bicultural Self (2002, background): “Each of the effects of language has a direct parallel in previous studies comparing East Asians to North Americans.”
• Prospects for an integrated trait and cultural psychology (2009, background): “In other findings, there were no cultural differences in the tendency to self-enhance for agentic traits versus communal traits, as predicted by some theorists (Brown & Kobayashi, 2002; Kurman, 2001; Paulhus & John, 1998).”
• Self‐esteem and culture: Differences in cognitive self‐evaluations or affective self‐regard? (2007, background): “This issue is important because some studies have found that cultural differences are less pronounced for communal qualities than agentic ones (Kurman, 2001; Brown & Kobayashi, 2002; Sedikides et al., 2003).”
• Why is Self-Enhancement Low in Certain Collectivist Cultures? (2003, background): “Self-enhancement in Singapore was found to be stronger than in Israel for communal traits, as opposed to agentic traits (Kurman, 2001), and communal traits were found to be more enhanced in Japan than in the United States (Sedikides, Gaertner, & Toguchi, 2003).”
• The What, How, Why, and Where of Self-Construal (2011, methodology): “The SCS has been used in hundreds of studies and translated into numerous languages, including Chinese (Aaker & Schmitt, 2001), Japanese (Ozawa, Crosby, & Crosby, 1996), Greek (Nezlek, Kafetsios, & Smith, 2008), Thai (Polyorat & Alden, 2005), Arabic, and Hebrew (Kurman, 2001).”
• Factor Structure of the Self-Construal Scale Revisited (2004, methodology): “The SCS has been translated into Chinese (Aaker & Schmitt, 2001, Study 1; Chen, Brockner, & Katz, 1998; Krull et al., 1999, Study 1; Kwan, Bond, & Singelis, 1997; Singelis, Bond, Sharkey, & Lai, 1999), Japanese (Aaker, 2000, Studies 1 and 3; Kleinknecht, Dinnel, Kleinknecht, Hiruma, & Harada, 1997; ”
• Self-Enhancement and Self-Criticism in Japanese Culture (2003, background): “Kurman (2001) also pointed out that self-enhancement motive does exist in the East Asian culture, although it is restricted by the role of modesty norms.”
• Behavioral Manifestations of Modesty (2009, background): “Cultural theories have suggested that self-enhancement varies across cultures, with higher levels in individualistic cultures and lower levels in collectivistic cultures (e.g., Kurman, 2001b, 2002, 2003; Kurman & Sriram, 1997, 2002; Kurman, Yoshihara-Tanaka, & Elkoshi, 2003).”