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The Effects of Self-Efficacy and Relationship Harmony on Depression Across Cultures

Applying Level-Oriented and Structure-Oriented Analyses

Sylvia Xiaohua Chen

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, sxhchen{at}psy.cuhk.edu.hk

Wai Chan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Michael Harris Bond

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Sunita Mahtani Stewart

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Cross-cultural theories of individualism and collectivism have stimulated the development of the personal constructs of independence and interdependence to help us understand the working out of their cultural dynamics. To delineate the contributions of both personal or independent and interpersonal or interdependent predictors of depressive symptomatology, this study assessed self-efficacy and relationship harmony (peer and family) among adolescents in Hong Kong and the United States. By applying both level- and structure- oriented techniques, the authors tested cultural differences in the levels of the constructs and their linkage across gender and culture. The path leading from self-efficacy to depressed symptoms was significantly stronger for American adolescents than for Hong Kong adolescents, whereas the path of relationship harmony was statistically equivalent across the two cultures. Both pathways supplemented one another in their effects on depressive symptomatology in both cultures, underscoring the importance of managing both agency and communion in promoting psychological health.

Key Words: self-efficacy • relationship harmony • depression • independence and interdependence

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 37, No. 6, 643-658 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022106292075
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