Self and Agency in Context
Ecologies of Abundance and Scarcity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15703136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Adams (0000-0002-9487-6999, University of Kansas, corresponding author), Susanne Bruckmüller (0000-0001-7373-0141, University of Exeter), Stephanie K Decker (University of Kansas) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 141-153 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Perspectives in Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2157-3883 • E-ISSN: 2157-3891 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0029348 |
| OpenAlex | W2063216821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 68 |
This work considers sociocultural foundations of self and agency in material affordances associated with affluence and poverty. We first review work that links independent self-construal and disjoint agency to material abundance. We then report an experiment among students at North American ( n = 52) and West African ( n = 60) universities, in which we manipulated abundance and scarcity concepts and assessed effects on a pronoun-selection measure of self-construal. Participants in the North American setting and abundance condition selected first-person pronouns (particularly, I and me) with greater frequency than did participants in the West African setting and scarcity condition. In contrast to modernity accounts, which propose that individualism promotes prosperity, results are consistent with the alternative account: that abundance can promote independent or disjoint varieties of self and agency. Discussion focuses on the distinction between cultural and structural varieties of sociocultural influence and contributions of international perspectives to psychological science
Abundance (ecology · Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Economics · Geography · Political science · Prosperity · Scarcity · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 1,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |