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3100.5 The effects of personal and collective mortality primes on individualism: Comparing
Australians and Japanese, Emiko Kashima, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe
University, Australia
The cross-cultural generality of terror management theory was examined in Australia and Japan.
Based on previous research suggesting individualism is sanctioned in Australia but not in Japan,
mortality salience was predicted to enhance individualism in Australia but reduce it in Japan, for
individuals with lower self-esteem in particular. The prediction was supported. Nevertheless,
priming collective mortality (death of in-group) had a greater impact than personal mortality in
Japan, contrary to Australia. Cultural worldviews and self-esteem may serve similar functions
across cultures, but the type of mortality that causes more anxiety and how worldviews may buffer
anxiety may depend on culture.
3100.6 The concept of coping in relation to cultural collectivism-individualism, Torill
Christine Lindstrom, University of Bergen, Norway
The concept of "coping" has been defined and operationalized in several ways. Disputes about the
utility of different ways of coping, are frequent, particularly with regard to clinical and councelling
settings. This paper suggests that the effectiveness the different ways of coping may partly be
attributable to cultural differences and sub-cultural differences, but also partly attributable to a
lack of insight in the psychological meanings of the terms "individualism" and "collectivism".
Data will presented to illustrate these points.
3100.7 When you trust, you express what you are: Effects of the cultural value orientation on
trust, Hwayeon Helene Shin, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Trust is an expression of social connectedness. Trust seems to reflect how one is defined in a
relationship. One way to measure the construal of the self is to investigate patterns of horizontal
and vertical individualism and collectivism. It was hypothesized that people with high levels of
horizontal collectivism would have higher levels of trust than those who endorse low levels of
horizontal collectivism, whether others are members of in-group or not. However, people with
high levels of vertical individualism and vertical collectivism were hypothesized inversely. Indeed,
cultural values were significant determinants of forming trust. This implication will be discussed.
3100.8 Adult social identity and the reminiscence bump: A study of autobiographical memory
amongst younger and older immigrants, Shamsul Haque, Department of Psychology, Malaysia
Older and younger groups of Bangladeshi immigrants in the UK recalled and dated
autobiographical memories to cue words. The older group emigrated as adult and stayed in Britain
at least 10 years, and the younger group emigrated at young age and attained adulthood in Britain.
The lifespan memory retrieval curves showed difference in reminiscence period for the two groups:
older group had bump for 6-25 years while the younger group had bump for 6-20 years. The
variation in reminiscence periods was explained in terms of the formation of adult identity in the
diverse socio-cultural contexts of Bangladesh and Britain.
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