Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal

Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez; Ayse K. Uskul; Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón; Guillermo B. Willis; Vivian L. Vignoles; Kuba Krys; Mladen Adamovic; Charity S. Akotia; Isabelle Albert; Lily Appoh; Arno Baltin; Pablo Eduardo Barrientos; Michael Harris Bond; Patrick Denoux; Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa; Carla Sofia Esteves; Márta Fülöp; Vladimer Gamsakhurdia; Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir; Alin Gavreliuc; Diana Hanke-Boer; Brian W. Haas; David O. Igbokwe; İdil Işık; Natalia Kascakova; Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová; Agata Kocimska-Zych; Aleksandra Kosiarczyk; Olga Kostoula; Nicole Kronberger; Anna Kwiatkowska; J. Hannah Lee; Xinhui Liu; Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha; Arina Malyonova; Fridanna Maricchiolo; Arévalo Mira; Tamara Mohorić; Oriana Mosca; Elke Murdock; Nur Fariza Mustaffa; Vivian Miu Chi Lun; Martin Nader; Azar Nadi; Ayu Okvitawanli; Yvette van Osch; Joonha Park; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Zoran Pavlović; Iva Poláčková Šolcová; Eric Raymond Igou; Muhammad Rizwan; Vladyslav Romashov; Espen Røysamb; Ruta Sargautyte; Beate Schwarz; Heyla A. Selim; Ursula Serdarevich; David Sirlopú; Maria Stogianni; Stanislava Stoyanova; Chien Ru Sun; Julien Teyssier; Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg; Claudio Torres; Yukiko Uchida; Christin Melanie Vauclair; Cai Xing; John M. Zelenski

doi:10.1080/15298868.2023.2200032

Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal

Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez, Ayse K. Uskul, Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón, Guillermo B. Willis, Vivian L. Vignoles, Kuba Krys, Mladen Adamovic, Charity S. Akotia, Isabelle Albert, Lily Appoh, Arno Baltin, Pablo Eduardo Barrientos, Michael Harris Bond, Patrick Denoux, Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa, Carla Sofia Esteves, Márta Fülöp, Vladimer Gamsakhurdia, Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir, Alin GavreliucDiana Hanke-Boer, Brian W. Haas, David O. Igbokwe, İdil Işık, Natalia Kascakova, Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová, Agata Kocimska-Zych, Aleksandra Kosiarczyk, Olga Kostoula, Nicole Kronberger, Anna Kwiatkowska, J. Hannah Lee, Xinhui Liu, Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha, Arina Malyonova, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Arévalo Mira, Tamara Mohorić, Oriana Mosca, Elke Murdock, Nur Fariza Mustaffa, Vivian Miu Chi Lun, Martin Nader, Azar Nadi, Ayu Okvitawanli, Yvette van Osch, Joonha Park, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Zoran Pavlović, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, Eric Raymond Igou, Muhammad Rizwan, Vladyslav Romashov, Espen Røysamb, Ruta Sargautyte, Beate Schwarz, Heyla A. Selim, Ursula Serdarevich, David Sirlopú, Maria Stogianni, Stanislava Stoyanova, Chien Ru Sun, Julien Teyssier, Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg, Claudio Torres, Yukiko Uchida, Christin Melanie Vauclair, Cai Xing, John M. Zelenski

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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.”.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	713-739
Number of pages	27
Journal	Self and Identity
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2023.2200032
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Economic inequality
independence
interdependence
multidimensional self-construal

UN SDGs

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Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Uskul, A. K., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Willis, G. B., Vignoles, V. L., Krys, K., Adamovic, M., Akotia, C. S., Albert, I., Appoh, L., Baltin, A., Barrientos, P. E., Bond, M. H., Denoux, P., Domínguez-Espinosa, A., Esteves, C. S., Fülöp, M., Gamsakhurdia, V., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., ... Zelenski, J. M. (2023). Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal. Self and Identity, 22(5), 713-739. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2023.2200032

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