• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism : Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups : Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
  • Beteiligte: Owe, Ellinor; Vignoles, Vivian L.; Becker, Maja; Brown, Rupert; Smith, Peter B.; Lee, Spike W. S.; Easterbrook, Matt; Gadre, Tanuja; Zhang, Xiao; Gheorghiu, Mirona; Baguma, Peter; Tatarko, Alexander; Aldhafri, Said; Zinkeng, Martina; Schwartz, Seth J.; Des Rosiers, Sabrina E.; Villamar, Juan A.; Mekonnen, Kassahun Habtamu; Regalia, Camillo; Manzi, Claudia; Brambilla, Maria; Kusdil, Ersin; Çağ lar, Selinay; Gavreliuc, Alin; [...]
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2013
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44 (2013) 1, Seite 24-45
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/0022022111430255
  • ISSN: 0022-0221; 1552-5422
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  • Beschreibung: Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism, referring to beliefs about the importance of context in understanding people, as a facet of cultural collectivism. A brief measure was developed and refined across 19 nations (Study 1: N = 5,241), showing good psychometric properties for cross-cultural use and correlating well at the nation level with other supposed facets and indicators of I-C. In Study 2 ( N = 8,652), nation-level contextualism predicted ingroup favoritism, corruption, and differential trust of ingroup and outgroup members, while controlling for other facets of I-C, across 35 nations. We conclude that contextualism is an important part of cultural collectivism. This highlights the importance of beliefs alongside values and self-representations and contributes to a wider understanding of cultural processes.