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Language of Response and the Spontaneous Self-Concept

A Test of the Cultural Accommodation Hypothesis

University of Hong Kong, hrfewda{at}hkucc.hku.hk

Andres Gerong

University of San Carlos, Philippines

Responses to the Twenty Statements Test were obtained from 166 Filipino secondary school children asked to respond either in English or Cebuano, their local language. Contrary to the cultural accommodation hypothesis, the respondents did not provide more independent self-references in the English language condition. Examination of responses indicated that when responding in English, the participants, particularly the males, were influenced by the school context. The females tended to provide more relational self-references.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 1, 115-121 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022199030001007


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