Attitude towards group and subjective well-being : the mediating role of interdependent self-concepts

• Main Author: Venkatachalam Alamu
• Other Authors: Weining Chu Chang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16777
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The study examines the relationships between the individual attitudes toward group such as the affective interdependence and institutional interdependence, and different measures of SWB in the highly group-oriented and collectivistic Singapore. The mediating roles of interdependent self-concepts such as the collective self and relational self were examined.The findings were such that affective interdependence and subjective well-being are positively correlated and that institutional interdependence and subjective well-being are negatively but weakly correlated. Collective self was found to be a significant mediator of both the former and the latter relationships whereas relational self was a significant mediator for only the relationship between the institutional interdependence and subjective well-being.