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Acting In Our Interests: Relational Self-Construal And Goal Motivation Across Cultures, Jonathan Gore, Susan Cross, Chie Kanagawa
Acting In Our Interests: Relational Self-Construal And Goal Motivation Across Cultures, Jonathan Gore, Susan Cross, Chie Kanagawa
Jonathan Gore
Relationally-autonomous reasons (RARs) are motives for behavior that take into account one’s close relationships. A cross-cultural model tested the hypotheses that (a) people with a highly relational self-construal will pursue their goals for RARs, and (b) RARs will predict positive goal outcomes after controlling for variance explained by personally-autonomous reasons (PARs) and social support. One hundred seventy Americans and 219 Japanese completed a well-being and self questionnaire then generated and rated seven goals on several attributes. Results showed that relational self-construal was associated with RARs for goals. RARs predicted effort directly and predicted progress and purpose in life indirectly for …