Self-enhancement and self-criticism in Japanese culture: An Experimental Analysis

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 542-551

  Takata, Toshitake ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Japanese culture; Self criticism; Self enhancement; Uchi Soto distinction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042919168     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022103256477     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Diener, E., & Diener, M. (1995). Cross-cultural correlates of life satisfaction and self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 653-663.
2. Doi, T. (1973). The anatomy of dependence. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International.
3. Gong, L., Suzuki, N., & Yamagishi, T. (2001, July). Beyond cultural construal of self: Self-effacing heuristic among Japanese. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Melbourne, Australia.
4. Heine, S., Kitayama, S., & Lehman, D. (2001). Cultural differences in self-evaluation: Japanese readily accept negative self-relevant information. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 434-443.
5. Heine, S., Lehman, D., Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1999). Is there a universal need for positive self-regard? Psychological Review, 106, 766-794.
6. Heine, S. J., Takata, T., & Lehman, D. R. (2000). Beyond self-presentation: Evidence for self-criticism among Japanese. Personality and Social Psychology, 26, 71-78.
7. Kaneko, H. (1965). Shokugyo tekisei kensa [Vocational aptitude test]. Tokyo: Kaneko Shobo.
8. Kashima, S. E., & Hardie, E. A. (2000). The development and validation of the relational, individual, and collective self-aspects (RIC) scale. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3, 19-48.
9. Kitayama, S., Takagi, H., & Matsumoto, H. (1995). Seiko to shippai no kiin: Nihonteki jiko no bunka shinrigaku [Causal attribution of success and failure: Cultural psychology of the Japanese self]. Japanese Psychological Review, 38, 247-280.
10. Kitayama, S., & Uchida, Y. (1999, August). Implicit self-attachment as sympathy to the self: Japanese constructions of the self. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Taipei, Taiwan.
11. Kurman, J. (2001). Self-enhancement: Is it restricted to individualistic cultures? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1705-1716.
12. Leuyers, T., & Sonoda, N. (1999, August). The eye of the other and the independent self of the Japanese. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Taipei, Taiwan.
13. Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implication for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253.
14. Matsumoto, D. (1999). Culture and self: An empirical assessment of Markus and Kitayama's theory of independent and interdependent self-construal. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2, 289-310.
15. Minami, H. (1994). Nihonjin ron: Meiji kara konnichi made [Comments on Japanese: From Meiji era to today]. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
16. Singelis, T. M. (1994). The measurement of independent and interdependent self-construals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 580-591.
17. Takata, T. (1999). Nihon bunka ni okeru sougo-dokuritusei/sougo-kyoutyousei no hattatu katei: Hikakubunkateki/oudanteki siryou ni yoru jisshouteki kenkyu [Developmental process of independent and interdependent self-construal in Japanese culture: Cross-cultural and cross-sectional analysis]. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 47, 480-489.
18. Takata, T. (2001 a, July). Self-enhancement and self-criticism in Japanese culture: An experimental Analysis. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Melbourne, Australia.
19. Takata, T. (2001b). Shakaiteki hikaku ni okeru jikohige keikou to sougo-dokuritusei/sougo-kyoutyosei tono kanrenn: Bunkakan hendo to bunkanai hendo ha kanren suruka? [Relationships between independent/interdependent self-construal and the self-critical social comparison: Do cultural differences imply individual differences?]. Memoirs of Nara University, 30, 97-107.
20. Washburn, S. (1913). Nogi. London: Andrew Melrose.