Summit
2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024
Attachment and Self Versus Other Orientations: Individual and Culture-Level Effects
- Konstantinos Kafetsios
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Konstantinos Kafetsios
Palacký University - Itziar Alonso-Arbiol
University of the Basque Country, Spain - Astrid Schütz
University of Bamberg - Dritjon Gruda
Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Kelly Campbell
California State University, San Bernardino - Bin-Bin Chen
Fudan University - Marco Held
Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg - Shanmukh Kamble
Karnatak University Dharwad - Takuma Kimura
Hosei University - Alexander Kirchner-Häusler
University of Sussex - Marina Kyvelea
University of Crete - Stefano Livi
Sapienza - Eugenia Mandal
University of Silesia in Katowice - Dominica Ochnik
Academy of Silesia, Katowice - Nektarios Papageorgakopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Ezgi Sakman
Bilkent University - Martin Seitl
Palacky University - Nebi Sumer
Sabanci University - Analisa Theodorou
Sapienza Università di Roma - Ursula Hess
Humboldt University - Ayse Uskul
University of Sussex
Abstract
2440 participants in 12 cultures reported on chronic/state adult attachment, self-construal, and self-other interests. Participants’ anxious and avoidant attachment were meaningfully associated with independent and interdependent self-construal and self vs. other interests. Country-level anxious and avoidant attachment moderated individual-level relationships. The results contribute to recent discussions on attachment and culture.
Cultural Diversity