Gender differences in self-construal: How generalizable are western findings?

Gender differences in self-construal: How generalizable are western findings?

• Watkins, David Dept. of Education, University of Hong Kong
• Cheng, Christopher Dept. of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
• Mpofu, Elias Dept. of Educational Foundations, University of Zimbabwe, Harare
• Olowu, Sola Dept. of Psychology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-lfe, Nigeria
• Singh-Sengupta, Sunita Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India
• Regmi, Murari Dept. of Psychology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Journal of Social Psychology, 143(4), 501-519, 2003

Routledge

2003

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AC Socialization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Identity, Affective, Emotional, Psycho-social & Moral Development
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AJ Sexual Difference, Bisexual Educational Difference, Sexism in Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Allocentric Self Collective Self Country Gender Idiocentric Self Small Groups Individualism-Collectivism United-States Culture Esteem Perspective Japan

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education
• Post-Secondary Education

The authors used the Twenty Statements Test in 2 studies to investigate gender and country differences in the spontaneous self-descriptions of 811 college students from Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe and 136 secondary school students from Taiwan and Hong Kong. The authors performed statistical analysis and found no significant gender differences in the percentage of responses classified as belonging to the idiocentric self in either study. However, the authors found significant Country effects in both studies for responses classified as representing the idiocentric self and some aspects of the collective self, and the authors found significant Country x Gender effects involving all 4 categories of the idiocentric self and the collective self for the college students. These findings raise questions about the generalizability of Western findings that males are more likely to espouse an independent conception of self than females. However, as the authors predicted, females were more likely to use small group self-descriptions than their male peers.
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• 10.1080/00224540309598459

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2010-11-24