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Self-continuity–the sense that one’s past, present, and future are meaningfully connected–is considered a defining feature of personal identity. However, bases of self-continuity may depend on cultural beliefs about personhood. In multilevel analyses of data from 7287 adults from 55 cultural groups in 33 nations, we tested a new tripartite theoretical model of bases of self-continuity. As expected, perceptions of stability, sense of narrative, and associative links to one’s past each contributed to predicting the extent to which people derived a sense of self-continuity from different aspects of their identities. Ways of constructing self-continuity were moderated by cultural and individual differences in mutable (vs. immutable) personhood beliefs–the belief that human attributes are malleable. Individuals with lower mutability beliefs based self-continuity more on stability; members of cultures where mutability beliefs were higher based self-continuity more on narrative. Bases of self-continuity were also moderated by cultural variation in contextualized (vs. decontextualized) personhood beliefs, indicating a link to cultural individualism-collectivism. Our results illustrate the cultural flexibility of the motive for self-continuity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK), Rupert Brown [grant number RES-062-23-1300], ESRC doctoral studentship [grant number ES/G015074/1], Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cient?fico y Tecnol?gico [grant number FONDECYT/1161371], Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR) [grant number FONDAP/15110006], Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies [grant number FONDAP/15130009] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Identity; culture; self-continuity; mutability; personhood beliefs; mindset |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Education |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2019 03:27 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2019 03:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/22329 |
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