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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
Volume 83, Issue 1, Pages 56-68Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12082
Keywords
Implicit Attitudes; Self-Esteem; Cross-Cultural Psychology; Personality
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26780343] Funding Source: KAKEN
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ObjectiveOur research utilized two popular theoretical conceptualizations of implicit self-esteem: 1) implicit self-esteem as a global automatic reaction to the self; and 2) implicit self-esteem as a context/domain specific construct. Under this framework, we present an extensive search for implicit self-esteem measure validity among different cultural groups (Study 1) and under several experimental manipulations (Study 2). MethodIn Study 1, Euro-Canadians (N=107), Asian-Canadians (N=187), and Japanese (N=112) completed a battery of implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem, and criterion measures. Included implicit self-esteem measures were either popular or provided methodological improvements upon older methods. Criterion measures were sampled from previous research on implicit self-esteem and included self-report and independent ratings. In Study 2, Americans (N=582) completed a shorter battery of these same types of measures under either a control condition, an explicit prime meant to activate the self-concept in a particular context, or prime meant to activate self-competence related implicit attitudes. ResultsAcross both studies, explicit self-esteem measures far outperformed implicit self-esteem measures in all cultural groups and under all experimental manipulations. ConclusionImplicit self-esteem measures are not valid for individual or cross-cultural comparisons. We speculate that individuals may not form implicit associations with the self as an attitudinal object.
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