Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal
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Sánchez-Rodríguez, Ángel | Uskul, Ayse | Rodríguez-Bailón, Rosa | Willis, Guillermo | Vignoles, Vivian | Krys, Kuba | Adamovic, Mladen | Akotia, Charity | Albert, Isabelle | Appoh, Lily | Baltin, Arno | Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo | Bond, Michael Harris | Denoux, Patrick | Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra | Esteves, Carla Sofia | Fülöp, Márta | Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer | Garðarsdóttir, Ragna | Gavreliuc, Alin | Hanke-Boer, Diana | Haas, Brian | Igbokwe, David | Işık, İdil | Kascakova, Natalia | Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie | Kocimska-Zych, Agata | Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra | Kostoula, Olga | Kronberger, Nicole | Kwiatkowska, Anna | Lee, J. Hannah | Liu, Xinhui | Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena | Malyonova, Arina | Maricchiolo, Fridanna | Mira, Arévalo | Mohorić, Tamara | Mosca, Oriana | Murdock, Elke | Mustaffa, Nur Fariza | Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi | Nader, Martin | Nadi, Azar | Okvitawanli, Ayu | van Osch, Yvette | Park, Joonha | Pavlopoulos, Vassilis | Pavlović, Zoran | Poláčková Šolcová, Iva | Igou, Eric Raymond | Rizwan, Muhammad | Romashov, Vladyslav | Røysamb, Espen | Sargautyte, Ruta | Schwarz, Beate | Selim, Heyla | Serdarevich, Ursula | Sirlopú, David | Stogianni, Maria | Stoyanova, Stanislava | Sun, Chien-Ru | Teyssier, Julien | van Tilburg, Wijnand | Torres, Claudio | Uchida, Yukiko | Vauclair, Christin-Melanie | Xing, Cai | Zelenski, John
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CCSD ; Taylor & Francis (Routledge) -
International audience.
Past research has shown that economic inequality shapes individuals’ self-construals. However, it has been unclear which dimensions of self-construal are associated with and affected by economic inequality. A correlational (Study 1: N = 264) and an experimental study (Study 2: N = 532) provided converging evidence linking perceived economic inequality with two forms of independent (vs. interdependent) self-construal: Difference from Others and Self-Reliance. In Study 3 (N = 12,634) societal differences in objective economic inequality across 48 nations predicted feelings of Difference from Others, but not Self-Reliance. Importantly, we found no significant associations of economic inequality with the other six dimensions of self-construal. Our findings help extend previous results linking economic inequality to forms of “social distance.”
