Li Yuanyuan Jamie, Gong Han
Department of Marketing & E-business, School of Business, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Department of Marketing, College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China.
Front Psychol. 2018 Aug 15;9:1462. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01462. eCollection 2018.
Self-construal has been shown to be exert consequential influences on thinking and doing. Although how people construe themselves is often deemed as a chronic and stable individual difference, relatively little is known about the factors that could potentially shape the extent to which individuals form an independent-self or an interdependent-self. In the current work, we try to explore whether and how the salience of parental roles would affect self-construal. Given that an interdependent self-construal helps individuals maintain connectedness and harmony with others in a group, which is adaptive for being a parent, we propose that parental roles tend to increase the perceived connection with others, thus leading to an interdependent self-construal. Findings from three studies consistently show that a salient parental role promotes an interdependent self-construal. Moreover, we observe that parents' role salience only prompts an interdependent self-construal in relation to other people without increasing the connection with one's future self. Theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed.
自我建构已被证明会对思维和行为产生重要影响。尽管人们如何建构自我通常被视为一种长期且稳定的个体差异，但对于可能影响个体形成独立自我或相互依存自我程度的因素，我们却知之甚少。在当前的研究中，我们试图探究父母角色的显著性是否以及如何影响自我建构。鉴于相互依存的自我建构有助于个体在群体中与他人保持联系与和谐，这对于为人父母来说是适应性的，我们提出父母角色往往会增强与他人的感知联系，从而导致相互依存的自我建构。三项研究的结果一致表明，显著的父母角色会促进相互依存的自我建构。此外，我们观察到父母角色的显著性只会促使在与他人关系中形成相互依存的自我建构，而不会增加与未来自我的联系。我们讨论了研究结果的理论和实际意义。
