Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal

• Autor(a) principal: Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á.
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Uskul, A. K., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Willis, G. B., Vignoles, V. L., Kuba, K., Adamovic, M., Akotia, C. S., Albert, I., Appoh, L., Baltin, A., Barrientos, P. E., Bond, M. H., Denoux, P., Dominguez-Espinosa, A., Esteves, C., Fulop, M., Gamsakhurdia, V., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., Gavreliuc, A., Vauclair, C.-M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/30922
• topic: Economic inequality; Multidimensional self-construal; Independence; Interdependence

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.”