Culture, self-construal, and affective reactions to successful and unsuccessful others |
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Authors: | Katherine White Darrin R. Lehman |
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Affiliation: | a Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 b Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada c Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA |
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Abstract: | Three studies examined whether cultural background and self-construal predict affective reactions to successful and unsuccessful others. Asian-Canadians and those with more interdependent self-construals had less positive affective reactions to an unsuccessful than a successful other, and less positive affective reactions to an unsuccessful other than did European-Canadians and those with less interdependent self-construals (Study 1). Priming self-construal in a sample of European-Canadians mimicked these cultural differences (Study 2), and this priming effect was moderated by cultural background (Study 3). Asian-Canadians primed with interdependence (but not independence) had less positive affective reactions to an unsuccessful than a successful target, whereas European-Canadians primed with independence (but not interdependence) had more positive affective reactions to an unsuccessful than a successful target. |
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Keywords: | Culture Self-construal Social comparison Affect |
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