Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-Construal
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 f...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-84a9b26a41584753a1777a774fd82b482022-12-22T02:47:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-08-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.01462380085Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-ConstrualYuanyuan Jamie Li0Han Gong1Department of Marketing & E-business, School of Business, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaDepartment of Marketing, College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, ChinaSelf-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.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01462/fullparenthoodrole primingself-construalinterdependenceindependence |
| spellingShingle | Yuanyuan Jamie Li Han Gong Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-Construal Frontiers in Psychology parenthood role priming self-construal interdependence independence |
| title | Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-Construal |
| title_full | Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-Construal |
| title_fullStr | Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-Construal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-Construal |
| title_short | Being a Parent Together: Parental Role Salience Promotes an Interdependent Self-Construal |
| title_sort | being a parent together parental role salience promotes an interdependent self construal |
| topic | parenthood role priming self-construal interdependence independence |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01462/full |
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