572
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The Relational-Interdependent Self-Construal and Positive Illusions in Friendship

Pages 460-476 | Received 18 May 2013, Accepted 06 Sep 2013, Published online: 23 Oct 2013

References

  • Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G. (1991). Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Alicke, M. D. (1985). Global self-evaluation as determined by the desirability and controllability of trait adjectives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 1621–1630. 10.1037/0022-3514.49.6.1621.
  • Alicke, M. D., & Govorun, O. (2005). The better-than-average effect. In M. D.Alicke, D. A.Dunning, & A. J.Krueger (Eds.), The self in social judgment (pp. 85–106). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
  • Alicke, M. D., Klotz, M. L., Breintenbecher, D. L., Yurak, T. J., & Vredenburg, D. S. (1995). Personal contact, individuation, and the better-than-average effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 804–825. 10.1037/0022-3514.68.5.804.
  • Altermatt, E. R., & Pomerantz, E. M. (2005). The implications of having high-achieving versus low-achieving friends: A longitudinal analysis. Social Development, 14, 61–81. 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2005.00291.x.
  • Anderson, N. H. (1968). Likableness ratings of 555 personality-trait words. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 9, 272–279. 10.1037/h0025907.
  • Aron, A., Aron, E. N., Tudor, M., & Nelson, G. (1991). Close relationships as including other in the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 241–253. 10.1037/0022-3514.60.2.241.
  • Brewer, M. B., & Gardner, W. (1996). Who is this “we”? Levels of collective identity and self-representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 83–93. 10.1037/0022-3514.71.1.83.
  • Brown, J. D. (1986). Evaluations of self and others: Self-enhancement biases in social judgments. Social Cognition, 4, 353–376. 10.1521/soco.1986.4.4.353.
  • Brown, J. D., Dutton, K. A., & Cook, K. E. (2001). From the top down: Self-esteem and self-evaluation. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 615–631. 10.1080/02699930143000004.
  • Brown, J. D., & Kobayashi, C. (2002). Self-enhancement in Japan and America. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 145–168. 10.1111/1467-839X.00101.
  • Chen, S., & Boucher, H. C. (2008). Relational selves as self-affirmational resources. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 716–733. 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.09.006.
  • Chen, S., Boucher, H. C., & Tapias, M. P. (2006). The relational self revealed: Integrative conceptualization and implications for interpersonal life. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 151–179. 10.1037/0033-2909.132.2.151.
  • Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., del Prado, A. M., Valdez-Medina, J. L., Miramontes, L. G., & Ortiz, F. A. (2006). A cross-cultural study of trait self-enhancement, explanatory variables, and adjustment. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 1169–1201. 10.1016/j.jrp.2006.01.004.
  • Cross, S. E. (2009). Relational self-construal: Past and future. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 949–961. 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2009.00223.x.
  • Cross, S. E., Bacon, P. L., & Morris, M. L. (2000). The relational-interdependent self-construal and relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 791–808. 10.1037/0022-3514.78.4.791.
  • Cross, S. E., & Morris, M. L. (2003). Getting to know you: The relational self-construal, relational cognition, and well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 512–523. 10.1177/0146167202250920.
  • Cross, S. E., Morris, M. L., & Gore, J. S. (2002). Thinking about oneself and others: The relational-interdependent self-construal and social cognition. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 82, 399–418. 10.1037/0022-3514.82.3.399.
  • Dunning, D., Meyerowitz, J. A., & Holzberg, A. D. (1989). Ambiguity and self-evaluation: The role of idiosyncratic trait definitions in self-serving assessments of ability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 1082–1090. 10.1037/0022-3514.57.6.1082.
  • Endo, Y., Heine, S. J., & Lehman, D. R. (2000). Culture and positive illusions in close relationships: How my relationships are better than yours. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1571–1586. 10.1177/01461672002612011.
  • Fleming, J., & Courtney, B. (1984). The dimensionality of self-esteem: II. Hierarchical facet model for revised measurement scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 404–421, Doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.46.2.404.
  • Galinsky, A. D., Ku, G., & Wang, C. S. (2005). Perspective-taking and self-other overlap: Fostering social bonds and facilitating social coordination. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 8, 109–124. 10.1177/1368430205051060.
  • Gardner, W. L., Gabriel, S., & Hochschild, L. (2002). When you and I are “we,” you are not threatening: The role of self-expansion in social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 239–251. 10.1037/0022-3514.82.2.239.
  • Heine, S. J., & Lehman, D. R. (1997). The cultural construction of self-enhancement: An examination of group-serving biases. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1268–1283. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.6.1268.
  • Hogan, R. (1983). A socioanalytic theory of personality. In M. M.Page (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (pp. 336–355). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  • John, O. P., & Robins, R. W. (1993). Determinants of interjudge agreement on personality traits: The Big Five domains, observability, evaluativeness, and the unique perspective of the self. Journal of Personality, 61, 521–551. 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1993.tb00781.x.
  • Jose, P. E. (2008). ModGraph-I: A programme to compute cell means for the graphical display of moderational analyses: The internet version, Version 2.0. New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://www.victoria.ac.nz/psyc/staff/paul-jose-files/modgraph/modgraph.php.
  • Klar, Y., & Giladi, E. E. (1999). Are most people happier than their peers, or are they just happy?Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 585–594. 10.1177/0146167299025005004.
  • Kurman, J. (2001). Self-enhancement: Is it restricted to individualistic cultures?Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1705–1716. 10.1177/01461672012712013.
  • Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, K. (1991). Culture and self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224–253. 10.1037/0033-295X.98.2.224.
  • Martz, J. M., Verette, J., Arriaga, X. B., Slovik, L. F., Cox, C. L., & Rusbult, C. E. (1998). Positive illusion in close relationships. Personal Relationships, 5, 159–181. 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1998.tb00165.x.
  • Miller, P. J. E., Niehuis, S., & Huston, T. L. (2006). Positive illusions in marital relationships: A 13-year longitudinal study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1579–1594. 10.1177/0146167206292691.
  • Morry, M. M., & Kito, M. (2009). Relational-interdependent self-construal as a predictor of relationship quality: The mediating roles of one's own behaviors and perceptions of the fulfillment of friendship functions. The Journal of Social Psychology, 149, 205–222. 10.3200/SOCP.149.3.305-322.
  • Morry, M. M., Reich, T., & Kito, M. (2010). How do I see you relative to myself? Relationship quality as a predictor of self- and partner-enhancement within cross-sex friendships, dating relationships, and marriages. The Journal of Social Psychology, 150, 369–392. 10.1080/00224540903365471.
  • Murray, S. L., & Holmes, J. G. (1997). A leap of faith? Positive illusions in romantic relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 586–604. 10.1177/0146167297236003.
  • Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., Dolderman, D., & Griffin, D. W. (2000). What the motivated mind sees: Comparing friends' perspectives to married partners' views of each other. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 600–620. 10.1006/jesp.1999.1417.
  • Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (1996a). The benefits of positive illusions: Idealization and the construction of satisfaction in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 79–98. 10.1037/0022-3514.70.1.79.
  • Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (1996b). The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships: Love is not blind, but prescient. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 1155–1180. 10.1037/0022-3514.71.6.1155.
  • Oveis, C., Horberg, E. J., & Keltner, D. (2010). Compassion, pride, and social intuitions of self-other similarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 618–630. 10.1037/a0017628.
  • Paulhus, D. L., & John, O. P. (1998). Egoistic and moralistic biases in self-perception: The interplay of self-deceptive styles with basic traits and motives. Journal of Personality, 66, 1025–1060. 10.1111/1467-6494.00041.
  • Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Rusbult, C. E., Van Lange, P. A. M., Wildschut, T., Yovetich, N. A., & Verette, J. (2000). Perceived superiority in close relationships: Why it exists and persists. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 521–545. 10.1037/0022-3514.79.4.521.
  • Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L., & Toguchi, Y. (2003). Pancultural self-enhancement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 60–79. 10.1037/0022-3514.84.1.60.
  • Suls, J., Lemos, K., & Stewart, H. L. (2002). Self-esteem, construal, and comparisons with the self, friends, and peers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 252–261. 10.1037/0022-3514.82.2.252.
  • Taylor, S. E., & Brown, J. D. (1988). Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health. Psychological Bulletin, 103, 193–210. 10.1037/0033-2909.103.2.193.
  • Tesch, S. A. (1983). Review of friendship development across the life span. Human Development, 26, 266–276. 10.1159/000272888.
  • Tesser, A., & Campbell, J. (1982). Self-evaluation maintenance and the perception of friends and strangers. Journal of Personality, 50, 261–279. 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1982.tb00750.x.
  • Triandis, H. C. (1989). The self and social behavior in differing cultural contexts. Psychological Review, 96, 506–520. 10.1037/0033-295X.96.3.506.
  • Van Lange, P. A. M., & Rusbult, C. E. (1995). My relationship is better than – and not as bad as – yours is: The perception of superiority in close relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 32–44. 10.1177/0146167295211005.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.