Culture and the Development of Self-Knowledge

Current Directions in Psychological Science - Tập 15 Số 4 - Trang 182-187 - 2006
Qi Wang1
1(Cornell University

Tóm tắt

Although a great deal of work in the past decades has shown cultural variations in self-knowledge among adults, not until recently have researchers started to examine developmental processes and mechanisms that give rise to the variations. I discuss our research on the development of two kinds of self-knowledge: autobiographical memory and self-concept. Our findings indicate that children develop culture-specific self-knowledge early in life; the two kinds of self-knowledge reinforce each other at both individual and cultural levels; and early narrative practices constitute an important resource from which children draw cultural views about the self to incorporate into their self-understanding and remembering.

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Current Directions in Psychological Science

Tập 15 Số 4

182-187

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