Culture and the role of choice in agency

Miller, Joan G. and Rekha Das and Sharmista Chakravarthy (2011) Culture and the role of choice in agency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101 (1). pp. 46-61.

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Abstract

Three cross-cultural studies conducted among U.S. and Indian adults compared perceptions of helping friends in strongly versus weakly expected cases, views of helping family versus strangers, and responses to a self-determination motivation scale. Expectations to help family and friends were positively correlated with satisfaction and choice only among Indians and not among Americans. Also, whereas U.S. respondents associated lesser satisfaction and choice with strongly versus weakly socially expected helping, Indian respondents associated equal satisfaction and choice with the 2 types of cases. Providing evidence of the importance of choice in collectivist cultures, the results indicate that social expectations to meet the needs of family and friends tend to be more fully internalized among Indians than among Americans. Methodologically, the results also highlight the need to incorporate items that tap more internalized meanings of role-related social expectations on measures of motivation in the tradition of self-determination theory.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	motivation; culture; agency; self-determination theory
Subjects:	A Arts and Humanities > Psychology
Divisions:	Department of > Psychology
Depositing User:	Users 23 not found.
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2019 06:32
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2022 05:37
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/2466

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