Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal
Sánchez-Rodríguez,Ángel AYSE,K. USKUL Rodríguez-Bailón,Rosa Willis,Guillermo B. Vignoles,Vivian L Krys,Kuba Adamovic,Mladen Akotia,Charity S. Albert,Isabelle Appoh,Lily
Sánchez-Rodríguez,Ángel
AYSE,K. USKUL
Rodríguez-Bailón,Rosa
Willis,Guillermo B.
Vignoles,Vivian L
Krys,Kuba
Adamovic,Mladen
Akotia,Charity S.
Albert,Isabelle
Appoh,Lily
Abstract
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.”
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Funding Information: The present research was supported by a fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport (FPU-13/01231), grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (PSI2016–78839-P and PID2019.105643GB.I00), by the Polish National Science Centre under Grant 2020/37/B/HS6/03142; the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under Grants P17806 and 17F17806; the Hungarian OTKA under Grant OTKA-K 135963; the Brazilian National Council for Research—CNPq under Grant PQ301298/2018-1; the Czech Science Foundation under grant 20-08583S; the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia under grant number YS 17–43; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 71873133; and the Department of Educational Studies, University of Roma Tre under biannual Grant DSF 2017-2018. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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2023-04-15
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Economic inequality, Independence, Interdependence, Multidimensional self-construal, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
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Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á, AYSE, K USKUL, Rodríguez-Bailón, R, Willis, G B, Vignoles, V L, Krys, K, Adamovic, M, Akotia, C S, Albert, I, Appoh, L, Baltin, A, Barrientos, P E, Bond, M H, Denoux, P, Domínguez-Espinosa, A, Esteves, C S, Fülöp, M, Gamsakhurdia, V, Gardarsdottir, R B, Gavreliuc, A, Hanke-Boer, D, Haas, B W, Igbokwe, D O, Isik, I, Kaščáková, N, Kračmárová, L K, Kocimska-Zych, A, Kosiarczyk, A, Kostoula, O, Kronberger, N, Kwiatkowska, A, Lee, J H, Liu, X, Łużniak-Piecha, M, Маленова, А, Fridanna, MARICCHIOLO, Mira, D M A, Mohoric, T, Mosca, O, Murdock, E, Mustaffa, N F, Lun, V, Nader, M, Nadi, A, Okvitawanli, A, Osch, Y V, Park, J, Pavlopoulos, V, Pavlović, Z, Šolcová, I P, Igou, E R, Rizwan, M, Romashov, V, Røysamb, E, Sargautyte, R, Schwarz, B, Selim, H A, Serdarevich, U, Sirlopu, D, Stogianni, M, Stoyanova, S, Sun, C-R, Teyssier, J, van Tilburg, W A P, Torres, C, Uchida, Y, Vauclair, C-M, Xing, C & Zelenski, J M 2023, 'Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal', Self and Identity, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 713-739. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2023.2200032