Studies consistently show that materialism might be a strategy people use to cope with low self-esteem. This link might differ among people holding different definitions of the “self” in terms of their relationships with others, however.
Yan Zhang, Yan Zhang, Skyler T. Hawk
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One independent or many independent? The relationship among self-construal, number of brand endorsers, and brand attitudes [PDF]
IntroductionIt was common for brands to use different numbers of endorsers in marketing practice. Nevertheless, research on brand endorsers’ quantity has not yielded a uniform consensus.
Shichang Liang +6 more
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The Relationship Between the Need to Belong and Nature Relatedness: The Moderating Role of Independent Self-Construal [PDF]
The perception of the relationship between humans and nature is important for promoting not only pro-environmental behaviors but also psychological well-being.
Liman Man Wai Li +2 more
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Self-Construal Priming Modulates Self-Evaluation under Social Threat
Previous studies have shown that Westerners evaluate themselves in an especially flattering way when faced with a social-evaluative threat. The current study first investigated whether East Asians also have a similar pattern by recruiting Chinese ...
Tianyang Zhang +7 more
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Dispositional Self-Construal Modulates Neural Representation of Self: An ERP Study [PDF]
This study aimed to investigate the influence of dispositional self-construal on self-related processing. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded for a participant’s own and a famous person’s name in a three-stimulus oddball task.
Jie Chen +9 more
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The Impact of Self-Transcendence on Anxiety Among Chinese College Students: The Moderating Roles of Self-Enhancement and Dominant Self-Construal [PDF]
This study explores the role of self-transcendence values in reducing anxiety among Chinese undergraduates, with a particular focus on how self-enhancement values and self-construal styles moderate this relationship. A total of 567 undergraduate students
Hong Wang, Tong Yue, Huajun Luo
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Emotional Intelligence and Self Construal
The present paper is based on the study that describes the importance of emotional intelligence in self-construal of the adolescents. Emotional intelligence is the ability to monitor one’s own and other’s feeling and emotions to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions (Solovey and Mayer 1990). The concept
Anupam Lata, Lata, Anupam
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The role of self-construal in decision making [PDF]
This paper aims to explore the connection between self-construal and making choices. The existing research mainly used the research method of questionnaire survey, questionnaire data analysis form self-construction scale, self-construal scale for ...
Liu Xinyan, Wang Qingyang, Zhou Yue
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Cultural dimensions of teacher job satisfaction in a collectivist context [PDF]
Culture is a broad context that has the potential to affect teachers’ job satisfaction. The present study investigated the relationships between self-construal and teacher job satisfaction in a collectivist culture.
Bahadır Özcan
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The mediating role of competitive orientation in determining self-construal in unethical decision-making [PDF]
Purpose – The ethics literature has focused on the influence of self-construal dimensions on unethical decision-making. However, the literature is unclear about why these self-construal dimensions (Independent-self, Relational-self, Collective-self ...
D.M. Sachinthanee Dissanayake
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