Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
16th European Psychology Congress, Moscow, Rusya, 2 - 05 Temmuz 2019
Background: The concept of self-construal refers to the
construction of self based on the social relations. Past research have categorized and well established two main orientations for
regulating the self and behaviors: Independent self-construal (e.g. separation
oriented) and interdependent self-construal (e.g. relationship oriented).
Although these two orientations acquired early in life and highly stable, there
are evidences that it is possible to prime a certain self-construal (Markus
& Kitayama, 1991). In the literature, there are certain techniques triggering
or priming independent or interdependent self-construal (Oyserman & Lee,
2008). Similarities and Differences with Family and Friends task (SDFF) (Tramifow,
Triandis & Goto, 1991) and Pronoun Circling (PC) task (Gardner, Gabrielle
& Lee, 1999) are two of the most commonly used priming procedures (Oyserman
& Lee, 2008). In this study, we examined the effects of these two priming procedures
on self-construals.
Methods: SDFF and PC tasks were used to prime the
participants’ self-construal. In order to find out the effects of these two
tasks on self-construal, we used Autonomy and Relatedness Scale (ARS)
(Kağıtçıbaşı, 2006) and drawing task (Masuda et al., 2008) as dependent
measures.
Findings: Results showed that any of the priming procedures
(namely SDFF and PC tasks) didn’t have an effect on neither ARS score nor
drawing task measure in statistically significant level.
Discussion: This study was conducted to examine whether priming the
independent or interdependent self constructions increase the accessibility of relevant
self-construals. Consistent with the claim that self-construals are trait-like
and long standing constructions, our findings demonstrated that the most
frequently used priming procedures might not always manipulate the self-construals
expectedly (Levine et al., 2003).