PSY1030 Lecture Notes - Collectivism
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The purpose of this exercise is to familiarise yourself with the concept and scale of independent and interdependent construal of self. Markus and kitayama (1991) presented two fundamentally different senses of self by contrasting the western or individualistic construal of self as independent self and the interdependent construal of self that is seen more in non-western, collectivistic cultures. Their concepts offer a prime example of how self-concept may differ across cultures and provide a conceptual framework within which to understand the influence of culture on self. Direction: read each statement below and write the degree to which you agree or disagree with the statement by using the seven-point scale. Then, add your scores in the even numbered statements, which indicate a total score of your tendency of interdependent self. Your total score for each tendency ranges from. 8 to 56, and a higher score indicates your stronger tendency of either type of self-construal.
