Culture and the Self (Implications for Psychological Theory): Cultural Concerns

摘要: The self encompasses the individual's understanding and experience of their psychological functioning. This essay presents a theoretical argument for why needs to be viewed as culturally grounded draws implications this cultural grounding theory. is made that processes depend on individuals' active interpretations experience, with these affected, in part, by meaning systems practices emphasized local communities. Examples are forwarded illustrate how gives rise variation endpoints child development well form basic processes, such cognition, self-esteem, emotion, motivation. Challenges also identified future research, including those developing approaches culture have greater ethnographic validity more dynamic increasing degree which constructs adopted inquiry informative. conclusion drawn work has succeeded forwarding new process explanations phenomena enhancing inclusiveness discipline, through broadening existing theories identifying alternative normative standards human