Shigehiro Oishi, Joanna Schug, Masaki Yuki, and Jordan Axt
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190218966
- eISBN:
- 9780190274474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190218966.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Social and behavioral scientists have delineated a diverse array of cultural variation in thinking, feeling, and behavior. This chapter summarizes an effort to clarify the sources of cultural ...
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Social and behavioral scientists have delineated a diverse array of cultural variation in thinking, feeling, and behavior. This chapter summarizes an effort to clarify the sources of cultural variation from a socioecological perspective, focusing on two key factors: residential mobility and relational mobility. Residential mobility refers to the frequency with which people change their residence, whereas relational mobility refers to the degree to which different environments afford individuals with opportunities to form new relationships and end existing ones. A review of the literature on the associations between residential mobility, relational mobility, and psychological constructs such as well-being, interpersonal relationships, and group identity is presented. Although there are many similarities between residential and relational mobility, the two are best considered as related but distinct. Finally, important future directions of research on residential and relational mobilities are summarized.Less
Social and behavioral scientists have delineated a diverse array of cultural variation in thinking, feeling, and behavior. This chapter summarizes an effort to clarify the sources of cultural variation from a socioecological perspective, focusing on two key factors: residential mobility and relational mobility. Residential mobility refers to the frequency with which people change their residence, whereas relational mobility refers to the degree to which different environments afford individuals with opportunities to form new relationships and end existing ones. A review of the literature on the associations between residential mobility, relational mobility, and psychological constructs such as well-being, interpersonal relationships, and group identity is presented. Although there are many similarities between residential and relational mobility, the two are best considered as related but distinct. Finally, important future directions of research on residential and relational mobilities are summarized.
Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı and Zeynep Cemalcılar
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- March 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190492908
- eISBN:
- 9780190879853
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190492908.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on human behavior by studying the role of the distal environment on developmental processes. Social class, or more specifically socioeconomic ...
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This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on human behavior by studying the role of the distal environment on developmental processes. Social class, or more specifically socioeconomic status, is an all-encompassing context that has great significance in engulfing human phenomena. This chapter first reviews extant psychological literature on the deleterious effects of low social class on development and presents three studies as cases in point, demonstrating the significant impact of the context and contextual change on behavior. Kağıtçıbaşı’s theory of family change proposes three models of family: family of interdependence, family of independence, and family of emotional interdependence. Parenting, however, directly reflects family characteristics. Thus family change theory has led to a theory of the autonomous-related self. The chapter also presents research illustrating the impact of the objective environment and in particular the detrimental effects of low socioeconomic status on various developmental, social, and academic outcomes of Turkish samples.Less
This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on human behavior by studying the role of the distal environment on developmental processes. Social class, or more specifically socioeconomic status, is an all-encompassing context that has great significance in engulfing human phenomena. This chapter first reviews extant psychological literature on the deleterious effects of low social class on development and presents three studies as cases in point, demonstrating the significant impact of the context and contextual change on behavior. Kağıtçıbaşı’s theory of family change proposes three models of family: family of interdependence, family of independence, and family of emotional interdependence. Parenting, however, directly reflects family characteristics. Thus family change theory has led to a theory of the autonomous-related self. The chapter also presents research illustrating the impact of the objective environment and in particular the detrimental effects of low socioeconomic status on various developmental, social, and academic outcomes of Turkish samples.
