ASA 3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Acting White, Extraversion And Introversion, Asian Americans
26 Mar 2017
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Article 1: individual and collectivism: cross-cultural perspectives on self-ingroup relationships. More concern for own goals than in-group"s goals. Compared collectivist societies (japan, puerto rico) with inficidualist society (us - Collectivists didn"t always see themselves as more under influence of ingroups. Depended on which ingroup (coworkers, friends, family, etc) Found correlations between allocentrism, social support, and loneliness. Allocentric individuals reported higher social support and lower loneliness. Article 2: use of culturally-based variables in assessment: studies on loss of face. Developed a loss of face scale to assess the importance of face loss concerns to asian. White american and asian american college students completed questionnaires about face threatening situations and personality variables. Other directedness (more concerned with people around them) Face loss was not significantly related to: People who are more likely to say yes. People who don"t get along with society. Article 3: don"t stand so close to me: the effects of self construal on interpersonal closeness.
