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The Added Value of World views over Self-Views: Predicting Modest Behaviour in Eastern and Western Cultures

Chen, S.X.; Ng, J.K.; Buchtel, E.; Guan, Y.; Deng, H.; Bond, M.H.

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Authors

S.X. Chen

J.K. Ng

E. Buchtel

H. Deng

M.H. Bond



Abstract

Personality research has been focused on different aspects of the self, including traits, attitudes, beliefs, goals, and motivation. These aspects of the self are used to explain and predict social behaviour. The present research assessed generalized beliefs about the world, termed ‘social axioms’ (Leung et al., 2002), and examined their additive power over beliefs about the self in explaining a communal behaviour, that is, modesty. Three studies predicted reported modest behaviour among Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, East Asian Canadians, and European Canadians. In addition to self-reports in Studies 1 and 2, informant reports from participants’ parents and close friends were collected in Study 3 to construct a behavioural composite after examining the resulting multitrait–multimethod matrix and intraclass correlations. World views (operationalized as social axioms) explained additional variance in modest behaviour over and above self-views (operationalized as self-efficacy, self-construals, and trait modesty) in both Eastern and Western cultures. Variation in reports on three factors of modest behaviour was found across self-, parent, and friend perspectives, with significant differences across perspectives in self-effacement and other-enhancement, but not in avoidance of attention-seeking.

Citation

Chen, S., Ng, J., Buchtel, E., Guan, Y., Deng, H., & Bond, M. (2017). The Added Value of World views over Self-Views: Predicting Modest Behaviour in Eastern and Western Cultures. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(4), 723-749. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12196

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 20, 2017
Online Publication Date Apr 24, 2017
Publication Date Dec 1, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 21, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal British Journal of Social Psychology
Print ISSN 0144-6665
Electronic ISSN 2044-8309
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 56
Issue 4
Pages 723-749
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12196
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1390457

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Chen, S.X., Ng, J.K., Buchtel, E., Guan, Y., Deng, H. & Bond, M.H. (2017). The Added Value of World views over Self-Views: Predicting Modest Behaviour in Eastern and Western Cultures. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(4): 723-749, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12196. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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