Influence of acculturation and cultural values on the self-reference effect.

ABSTRACT: Cultural milieu can influence the way information is processed and what strategies are employed to deal with ever-changing environments. This study assessed whether acculturation and cultural values of East Asians can affect memory, with a specific focus on the self-reference effect in Chinese international students. Participants encoded and retrieved adjectives, with some trials relating the words to the self (i.e., the self-referencing task), another person, or a control condition; participants also completed questionnaires assessing cultural adaptation and self-construal. Results did not show a relationship between acculturation orientation and self-construal and the magnitude of the self-reference effect in memory, defined as better memory for adjectives encoded related to the self com

SUBMITTER: Gilliam AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10796948 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature