culture perspective on personality Flashcards
what is culture?
a shared system of meaning that provide the standards for perceiving, believing, evaluating,communicating, and acting among those who share a language, a historical period and a geographic location
culture are game rules
does culture = race / ethnicity?
no
Culture and personality (Mead)
how we respond to a situation is due to personality, our personality if culture is understood
modern culture view
personality traits as products of biological and cultural evolution
culture>personality
personality is dependent with the meaning and practice of a particular sociocultural context(interactions)
a cultural psychological perspective implies that there is no personality without culture,there is only a biological entity (nature vs nature)
there is also no culture without personality
personality meaning in artifacts people use (living spaces,consumers preferences,preferred icons) and institutions they support{personality>culture}
the use and availability of these cultural products,in turn,perpetuates particular behavioral, affective , and cognitive tendacies (personality). [culture>personality}
reserch on cross-cultural differences in personality
-lexical approch
using natural languague as a window to study cultural universals/differences in personality
fundamental lexical hypothasis
those psychological constructuts that are the most salient and socially relevant in people’s lives will eventually become encoded into their language ; the more important the construct is
1- the more likely it is to be expressed as a word and more likely to have other words for it
2-the more languages and cultures will have a word for it
do the Big 5 traits replicate across cultures?
yes,in spain-using translated american measure
what are the limitation of this study ?
need a study that
-identifies the basic indigenous dimensions of personality description in Spanish
-assesses the overlap between these indigenous Spanish dimensions the American Big 5
combined etic/emic aproch
emic aproch
uses indegenous measures
-self-reports on 299 indegenous Spanish personality adjectives from the dictionary
Etic approch
imported measures
-self reports on spanish-translated Big 5 questionairs
traduzidos do ingles
7 indigenous spanish personality dimension #
positive valence
opness
Plesentness
Engagement
negative valence
contiaciousness
agrebleness
do emic and etic personality dimension overlap?#
plesentness for the imported big 7 is extraversion
engagement is neuroticism
what was the conclusion of the study ?
their is an overlap between the spanish grande 7 and American big 7
-exceptions:plesentness and engagement instead extraversion and neuroticism
also opness not quite the same (bohemian,mystical,quant,gossiping ,disclosing,nosy vs open minded …)
positive and negative valence seems fairly robust across these 2 cultures
cultural diferences in personality
individualism vs collectivism
extent to which the self defined as bound and separate on others around him/her
individualism(western culture)
focus on what you want
minimizes role of others in self’s behaviours
use self-descriptive traits to describe the self(ex:funny)
collectivism(easter culture)
emphasis on relationship witn the group
goal to fit in and promote group harmony
use interpersonal role to describe the self(I’m a sister,canadian)
