Mother or Wife

An African Dilemma Tale and the Psychological Dynamics of Sociocultural Change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5338720
AutoresPhia S Salter (0000-0003-4138-5659, Texas A&M University), G Adams (0000-0002-9487-6999, University of Kansas)
Año2012
Volumen43
Número4
Páginas232-242
Fecha de publicación2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590
EditorialHogrefe Publishing Group (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1027/1864-9335/a000124
OpenAlexW2172849454
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas41

Inspired by "Mother or Wife" African dilemma tales, the present research utilizes a cultural psychology perspective to explore the dynamic, mutual constitution of personal relationship tendencies and cultural-ecological affordances for neoliberal subjectivity and abstracted independence. We administered a resource allocation task in Ghana and the United States to assess the prioritization of conjugal/nuclear relationships over consanguine/kin relationships along three dimensions of sociocultural variation: nation (American and Ghanaian), residence (urban and rural), and church membership (Pentecostal Charismatic and Traditional Western Mission). Results show that tendencies to prioritize nuclear over kin relationships - especially spouses over parents - were greater among participants in the first compared to the second of each pair. Discussion considers issues for a cultural psychology of cultural dynamics

Cultural psychology · Perspective (graphical) · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Wife · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology