Within-individual variability in self-concepts and personality states: Applying density distribution and situation-behavior approaches across cultures

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 922-935

  Timothy Church, A ^a   Katigbak, Marcia S ^a   Ching, Charles M ^a   Zhang, Hengsheng ^b   Shen, Jiliang ^b   Arias, Rina Mazuera ^c   Rincon, Brigida Carolina ^c   Morio, Hiroaki ^d   Tanaka Matsumi, Junko ^e   Takaoka, Shino ^e   Mastor, Khairul A ^f   Roslan, Nurul A ^f   Ibáñez Reyes, Joselina ^g   Vargas Flores, José de Jesús ^g   Locke, Kenneth D ^h   Reyes, Jose Alberto S ⁱ   Wenmei, Sun ^j   Ortiz, Fernando A ^k   Alvarez, Juan M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Deanship of Research   (Venezuela)

^d KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

ⁱ DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^j HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Culture; Density distributions approach; Personality states; Situation behavior profiles; Within individual variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885033068     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Baird B.M., Le K., Lucas R.E. On the nature of intraindividual personality variability: Reliability, validity, and associations with well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2006, 90:512-527.
2. Baron R.M., Misovich S.J. Dispositional knowing from an ecological perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 1993, 19:541-552.
3. Boucher H.C. The dialectical self-concept II: Cross-role and within-role consistency, well-being, self-certainty, and authenticity. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2011, 42:1251-1271.
4. Ching, C. M., Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Locke, K. D., Vargas-Flores, J. d., Ibáñez-Reyes, J., et al. (2013). Cross-cultural generalizability of the Personality and Role Identity Structural Model (PRISM): Implications for trait and cultural psychology. Journal of Research in Personality (in press).
5. Ching, C. M., Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Reyes, J.A. S., Tanaka-Matsumi, J., Zhang, H., et al. (2013). The manifestation of traits in everyday behavior and affect: A five-culture study (submitted for publication).
6. Chirkov V.I., Ryan R.M., Willness C. Cultural context and psychological needs in Canada and Brazil: Testing a self-determination approach to the internalization of cultural practices, identity, and well-being. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2005, 36:423-443. 10.1177/0022022105275960.
7. Choi I., Choi Y. Culture and self-concept flexibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2002, 28:1508-1517.
8. Church A.T. Personality research in a non-Western culture: The Philippines. Psychological Bulletin 1987, 102:272-292.
9. Church A.T., Alvarez J.M., Katigbak M.S., Mastor K.A., Cabrera H.F., Tanaka-Matsumi J., et al. Self-concept consistency and short-term stability in eight cultures. Journal of Research in Personality 2012, 46:556-570. 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.06.003.
10. Church A.T., Anderson-Harumi C.A., del Prado A.M., Curtis G., Tanaka-Matsumi J., Valdez-Medina J.L., et al. Culture, cross-role consistency, and adjustment: Testing trait and cultural psychology perspectives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2008, 95:739-755. 10.1037/0022-3514.95.3.739.
11. Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Ibáñez-Reyes, J., Vargas-Flores, J. d., Curtis, G. J., Tanaka-Matsumi, J., et al. (2013). Relating self-concept consistency to hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in eight cultures (submitted for publication).
12. Church A.T., Katigbak M.S., Reyes J.A.S., Salanga M.G., Miramontes L.G., Adams N.B. Prediction and cross-situational consistency of daily behavior across cultures: Testing trait and cultural psychology perspectives. Journal of Research in Personality 2008, 42:1199-1215. 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.03.007.
13. Cronbach L.J. Processes affecting scores on understanding of others and "assumed similiarity". Psychological Bulletin 1955, 52:177-193.
14. Csikszentmihalyi M.L., Hunter J. Happiness in everyday life: The use of experience sampling. Journal of Happiness Studies 2003, 4:185-199.
15. Deci E.L., Ryan R.M. The "what" and "why" of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry 2000, 11:227-268.
16. Díaz-Loving R., Draguns J.G. Culture, meaning, and personality in Mexico and in the United States. Personality and person perception across cultures 1999, 103-126. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. Y.-T. Lee, C.R. McCauley, J.G. Draguns (Eds.).
17. Donahue E.M., Robins R.W., Roberts B.W., John O.P. The divided self: Concurrent and longitudinal effects of psychological adjustment and social roles on self-concept differentiation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993, 64:834-846.
18. Eaton L.G., Funder D.C. Emotional experience in daily life: Valence, variability, and rate of change. Emotion 2001, 1:413-421.
19. Eid M., Diener E. Intraindividual variability in affect: Reliability, validity, and personality correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1999, 76:662-676.
20. English T., Chen S. Culture and self-concept stability: Consistency across and within contexts among Asian Americans and European Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2007, 93:478-490.
21. English T., Chen S. Self-concept consistency and culture: The differential impact of two forms of consistency. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2011, 37:838-849. 10.1177/0146167211400621.
22. Epstein S. The stability of behavior: I. On predicting most of the people much of the time. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1979, 37:1097-1126.
23. Fleeson W. Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2001, 80:1011-1027.
24. Fleeson W. Moving personality beyond the person-situation debate: The challenge and the opportunity of within-person variability. Current Directions 2004, 13:83-87.
25. Fleeson W. Situation-based contingencies underlying trait-content manifestation in behavior. Journal of Personality 2007, 75:825-862.
26. Fleeson W., Gallagher P. The implications of Big Five standing for the distribution of trait manifestation in behavior: Fifteen experience-sampling studies and a meta-analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2009, 97:1097-1114. 10.1037/a0016786.
27. Fleeson W., Leicht C. On delineating and integrating the study of variability and stability in personality psychology: Interpersonal trust as illustration. Journal of Research in Personality 2006, 40:5-20. 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.004.
28. Fleeson W., Noftle E. The end of the person-situation debate: An emerging synthesis in the answer to the consistency question. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2008, 2(4):1667-1684. 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00122.x.
29. Fleeson W., Wilt J. The relevance of Big Five trait content in behavior to subjective authenticity: Do high levels of within-person behavioral variability undermine or enable authenticity achievement?. Journal of Personality 2010, 78:1353-1382.
30. Fournier M.A., Moskowitz D.S., Zuroff D.C. Integrating dispositions, signatures, and the interpersonal domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2008, 94:531-545.
31. Fournier M.A., Moskowitz D.S., Zuroff D.C. The interpersonal signature. Journal of Research in Personality 2009, 43:155-162. 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.01.023.
32. Funder D.C. On the accuracy of personality judgment: A realistic approach. Psychological Review 1995, 102:652-670.
33. Furr R.M. Profile analysis in person-situation integration. Journal of Research in Personality 2009, 43:196-207. 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.08.002.
34. Furr R.M., Funder D.C. Situational similarity and behavioral consistency: Subjective, objective, variable-centered, and person-centered approaches. Journal of Research in Personality 2004, 38:421-447.
35. Geldhof G.J., Preacher K.J., Zyphur M.J. Reliability estimation in a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis framework. Psychological Methods 2013, Advance online publication. 10.1037/a0032138.
36. Gelfand M.J., Nishii L.H., Raver J.L. On the nature and importance of cultural tightness-looseness. Journal of Applied Psychology 2006, 91:1225-1244.
37. Gelfand M.J., Raver J.L., Nishii L., Leslie L.M., Lun J., Lim B.C., et al. Differences between tight and loose cultures: A 33-nation study. Science 2011, 332:1100-1104. 10.1126/science.1197754.
38. Goldberg L.R. The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Psychological Assessment 1992, 4:26-42.
39. Hays W.L. Statistics for the social sciences 1973, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. 2nd ed.
40. Heine S.J. Self as a cultural product: An examination of East Asian and North American selves. Journal of Personality 2001, 69:880-906.
41. Hofstede G. Culture's consequences: Comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across nations 2001, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA. 2nd ed.
42. Jöreskog K.G., Sörbom D. LISREL 8.8 for Windows [Computer software] 2006, Scientific Software International, Inc, Skokie, IL.
43. Kenny D.A. Interpersonal perception: A social relations analysis 1994, Guilford, New York.
44. Kuppens P., Oravecz Z., Tuerlinckx F. Feelings change: Accounting for individual differences in the temporal dynamics of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010, 99:1042-1060.
45. La Guardia J.G., Ryan R.M. Why identities fluctuate: Variability in traits as a function of situational variations in autonomy support. Journal of Personality 2007, 75:1205-1228. 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00473.x.
46. La Guardia J.G., Ryan R.M., Couchman C.E., Deci E.L. Within-person variation in security of attachment: A self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need fulfillment, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2000, 79:367-384.
47. Levesque C., Zuehlke A.N., Stanek L.R., Ryan R.M. Autonomy and competence in German and American university students: A comparative study based on self-determination theory. Journal of Educational Psychology 2004, 96:68-84. 10.1037/0022-0663.96.1.68.
48. Lynch M.F., La Guardia J.G., Ryan R.M. On being yourself in different cultures: Ideal and actual self-concept, autonomy support, and well-being in China, Russia, and the United States. Journal of Positive Psychology 2009, 4:290-304.
49. Markus H.R., Kitayama S. Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review 1991, 98:224-253.
50. Markus H.R., Kitayama S. The cultural psychology of personality. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 1998, 29:63-87.
51. McArthur L.Z., Baron R.M. Toward an ecological theory of social perception. Psychological Review 1983, 90:215-238.
52. Mischel W. Personality and assessment 1968, Wiley, New York, NY.
53. Mischel W. Toward an integrative science of the person. Annual Review of Psychology 2004, 55:1-22.
54. Mischel W., Shoda Y. A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. Psychological Review 1995, 102:246-268.
55. Mischel W., Shoda Y. Reconciling processing dynamics and personality dispositions. Annual Review of Psychology 1998, 49:229-258.
56. Mischel W., Shoda Y., Mendoza-Denton R. Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2002, 11:30-34.
57. Oishi S., Diener E., Scollon C.N., Biswas-Diener R. Cross-situational consistency of affective experiences across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2004, 86:460-472.
58. Peng K., Nisbett R.E. Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction. American Psychologist 1999, 54:741-754.
59. Reis H.T. Reinvigorating the concept of situation in social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review 2008, 12:311-329.
60. Ross L., Nisbett R.E. The person and the situation: Perspectives of social psychology 1991, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
61. Ryan R.M., La Guardia J.G., Solky-Butzel J., Chirkov V., Kim Y. On the interpersonal regulation of emotions: Emotional reliance across gender, relationships, and cultures. Personal Relationships 2005, 12:145-163.
62. Saucier G. Mini-markers: A brief version of Goldberg's unipolar big-five markers. Journal of Personality Assessment 1994, 63:506-516.
63. Sheldon K.M., Elliot A.J., Kim Y., Kasser T. What is satisfying about satisfying events: Testing 10 candidate psychological needs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2001, 80:325-339.
64. Sheldon K.M., Ryan R.M., Rawsthorne L.J., Ilardi B. Trait self and true self: Cross-role variation in the Big Five personality traits and its relations with psychological authenticity and subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1997, 73:1380-1393.
65. Sherman R.A., Nave C.S., Funder D.C. Situational similarity and personality predict behavioral consistency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010, 99:330-343.
66. Shoda Y., Mischel W., Wright J.C. Intra-individual stability in the organization and patterning of behavior: Incorporating psychological situations into the idiographic analysis of personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1994, 67:674-687.
67. Smith R.E., Shoda Y., Cumming S.P., Smoll F.L. Behavioral signatures at the ballpark: Intraindividual consistency of adults' situation-behavior patterns and their interpersonal consequences. Journal of Research in Personality 2009, 43:187-195. 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.006.
68. Spencer-Rodgers J., Williams M.J., Peng K. Cultural differences in expectations of change and tolerance for contradiction: A decade of empirical research. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2010, 14:296-312.
69. Suh E.M. Culture, identity consistency, and subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2002, 83:1378-1391.
70. Tellegen A. Structures of mood and personality and their relevance to assessing anxiety, with an emphasis on self-report. Anxiety and the anxiety disorders 1985, 681-706. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. A.H. Tuma, J.D. Maser (Eds.).
71. Watson D., Clark L.A. The PANAS-X: Manual for the positive and negative affect schedule - Expanded form 1994, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
72. Watson D., Clark L.A. Extraversion and its positive emotional core. Handbook of personality psychology 1997, 767-793. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. R. Hogan, J. Johnson, S. Briggs (Eds.).
73. Wood D. Using the PRISM to compare the explanatory value of general and role-contextualized trait ratings. Journal of Personality 2007, 75:1103-1126.
74. Wood D., Roberts B.W. Cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of the Personality and Role Identity Structural Model (PRISM). Journal of Personality 2006, 74:779-810.