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Historical Sustenance Style and Social Orientations in China: Chinese Mongolians Are More Independent Than Han Chinese

In this study, we examined the Chinese Han and Mongolian, two ethnic groups that belong to the same national and geographic regions but vary in their degrees of social interdependence and independence. We assumed that the Mongolian, who have traditionally been known as a herding community, exhibit a...

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Autores principales: Stojcic, Ivana, Wei, Qingwang, Ren, Xiaopeng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7225263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32457683
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00864
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description In this study, we examined the Chinese Han and Mongolian, two ethnic groups that belong to the same national and geographic regions but vary in their degrees of social interdependence and independence. We assumed that the Mongolian, who have traditionally been known as a herding community, exhibit a greater independent social orientation compared to the Han Chinese, who have traditionally been known as an agrarian community. Through three different studies we used the explicit measurement of self-construal, implicit cultural task of self – inflation and the practice of name-giving (i.e., baby names as a cultural product) to test our hypothesis. The obtained results revealed that compared to Han Chinese, Mongolian scored higher on independent – self subscale, had greater levels of self-symbolic inflation and were less likely to give common names to their babies. These findings suggest that Mongolians are more independent than Han Chinese. In view of that, the present study contributes to a better understanding of the complexity of Chinese culture in terms of interdependence and independence, and provides further support for historical sustenance theory.
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spelling pubmed-72252632020-05-25 Historical Sustenance Style and Social Orientations in China: Chinese Mongolians Are More Independent Than Han Chinese Stojcic, Ivana Wei, Qingwang Ren, Xiaopeng Front Psychol Psychology In this study, we examined the Chinese Han and Mongolian, two ethnic groups that belong to the same national and geographic regions but vary in their degrees of social interdependence and independence. We assumed that the Mongolian, who have traditionally been known as a herding community, exhibit a greater independent social orientation compared to the Han Chinese, who have traditionally been known as an agrarian community. Through three different studies we used the explicit measurement of self-construal, implicit cultural task of self – inflation and the practice of name-giving (i.e., baby names as a cultural product) to test our hypothesis. The obtained results revealed that compared to Han Chinese, Mongolian scored higher on independent – self subscale, had greater levels of self-symbolic inflation and were less likely to give common names to their babies. These findings suggest that Mongolians are more independent than Han Chinese. In view of that, the present study contributes to a better understanding of the complexity of Chinese culture in terms of interdependence and independence, and provides further support for historical sustenance theory. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7225263/ /pubmed/32457683 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00864 Text en Copyright © 2020 Stojcic, Wei and Ren. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_full Historical Sustenance Style and Social Orientations in China: Chinese Mongolians Are More Independent Than Han Chinese
title_fullStr Historical Sustenance Style and Social Orientations in China: Chinese Mongolians Are More Independent Than Han Chinese
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title_short Historical Sustenance Style and Social Orientations in China: Chinese Mongolians Are More Independent Than Han Chinese
title_sort historical sustenance style and social orientations in china: chinese mongolians are more independent than han chinese
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7225263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32457683
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00864
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