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PERSONALITY AND CULTURE REVISITED:
INTEGRATING THE SOCIAL COGNITIVE APPROACH TO PERSONALITY
AND THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO CULTURE
by
Yu Yang
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PSYCHOLOGY)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Yu Yang
Object Description
| Title | Personality and culture revisited: Integrating the social cognitive approach to personality and the dynamic constructivist approach to culture |
| Author | Yang, Yu |
| Author email | yuyang@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-05-17 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 26 July 2009. |
| Date published | 2009-07-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Read, Stephen J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Walsh, David Huey, Stanley J., jr. Overbeck, Jen |
| Abstract | The study of personality and culture has a long and distinguished tradition in psychology and anthropology. Recently, research on personality and culture has focused almost exclusively on profiling people from different cultures on personality trait measures. In this dissertation, I first consider two problems that may confound the results from the recent work: the reference group effect (Heine, Lehman, Peng, & Greenholtz, 2002), and lay theories of personality traits in different cultures. To address these two problems, at the theoretical level, I propose an alternative perspective that integrates the social cognitive approach to personality (Mischel & Shoda, 1995, 1998) and the dynamic constructivist approach to culture (Hong, Morris, Chiu, & Benet-Martínez, 2000). Essentially, this new perspective argues that personality and culture can be meaningfully conceptualized and operationalized in terms of distinctive patterns of if (situation) then (behavior) contingencies and explanations for the contingencies. At the empirical level, it is shown that while personality profiles based solely upon personality trait measures suggested that Americans are equally extraverted, less agreeable, more conscientious, equally emotionally stable, and more open to new experiences than Chinese, the profiles based upon the new perspective of situations, behaviors, and explanations suggested that Americans are more extraverted, slightly more agreeable, more conscientious, emotionally more stable, and equally open to new experiences than Chinese. Advantages and implications of this new perspective and a number of opportunities it opens for personality and culture research in the future are discussed. |
| Keyword | personality; culture |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m692 |
| Rights | Yang, Yu |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Yang-20070726 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Yang-20070726.pdf |
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| Full text | PERSONALITY AND CULTURE REVISITED: INTEGRATING THE SOCIAL COGNITIVE APPROACH TO PERSONALITY AND THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO CULTURE by Yu Yang ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PSYCHOLOGY) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Yu Yang |
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