Abele-Brehm A, Hauke N (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2639
The Big Two of agency and communion can be divided into the facets of agency-assertiveness, agency-competence, communion-morality, and communion-warmth. The present research studies how these facets are related to global evaluation of self versus others. In five studies we tested whether self-evaluation is reliably related to agency-assertiveness (H1), and evaluation of others to communion-morality (H2). Participants had to describe themselves (or a specific other person) on the facets and later to rate their self-evaluation (or other-evaluation). Supporting hypotheses, Studies 1, 3, and 4 showed that agency-assertiveness was reliably related to self-evaluation (Study 4: also agency-competence). Studies 2–5 showed that communion-morality was reliably related to evaluation of an acquaintance, but agency-competence (Studies 3 and 5) and communion-warmth (Study 2) were also important. We conclude that supporting H1, agency-assertiveness is particularly important for self-evaluation, whereas partly supporting H2, evaluation of others is associated with communion-morality, but also agency-competence and communion-warmth.
APA:
Abele-Brehm, A., & Hauke, N. (2019). Comparing the facets of the big two in global evaluation of self versus other people. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2639
MLA:
Abele-Brehm, Andrea, and Nicole Hauke. "Comparing the facets of the big two in global evaluation of self versus other people." European Journal of Social Psychology (2019).
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