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Papers by Takuji Shimada

Human Communication Studies, 2007

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effeets of cultural differences in self-esteem on th... more The purpose of this study was to clarify the effeets of cultural differences in self-esteem on the preferenee for account-making tactics, including concessions, excuses, justifieations, and refusals, Among the four tacties, eoncessions were considered most mitigating, followed by excuses, justifications and refusals the least initigating (the rnost aggravating), Following Tafarodi and Swann (1995), self-esteem was conceptualized as holding two highly correlated but distinctive dirnensions, i.e., self-competenee and self-liking. The cultural trade-off hypothesis (Tafarodi, Lang, & Smith, 1999; Tafarodi & Swanii, l996) posits that individualistic eultures would stress selfcompetence more than self-]iking but eollectivistic cultures would emphasize seli liking more than self-.eompetence. Because self-competence and self-1iking can be interpreted differently in individualistic and eollectivistic eultures, positive relationships would be expected between self-liklng and mitigating accounts and between self competence and self-proteetive accounts in Japanese eulture (a eollectivistic culture). The opposite pattern was expected in Amerjcan culture (am individualistic culture). That is, positive relations would exist between self-liki]g and self-protective accounts a[nd between self-competence and mitigating accounts. The results of rnultigroup covariance structure analyses sitpported most of the hypotheses, Nso, it was found that a more independenL self-construal predicted higher levels of self-competenee and self-liking and that all interdependent self-censtrual had weak negative links with these twe diniensions of self-esteem. The iinplications of these findings were discussed,

Human Communication Studies, 2007

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effeets of cultural differences in self-esteem on th... more The purpose of this study was to clarify the effeets of cultural differences in self-esteem on the preferenee for account-making tactics, including concessions, excuses, justifieations, and refusals, Among the four tacties, eoncessions were considered most mitigating, followed by excuses, justifications and refusals the least initigating (the rnost aggravating), Following Tafarodi and Swann (1995), self-esteem was conceptualized as holding two highly correlated but distinctive dirnensions, i.e., self-competenee and self-liking. The cultural trade-off hypothesis (Tafarodi, Lang, & Smith, 1999; Tafarodi & Swanii, l996) posits that individualistic eultures would stress selfcompetence more than self-]iking but eollectivistic cultures would emphasize seli liking more than self-.eompetence. Because self-competence and self-1iking can be interpreted differently in individualistic and eollectivistic eultures, positive relationships would be expected between self-liklng and mitigating accounts and between self competence and self-proteetive accounts in Japanese eulture (a eollectivistic culture). The opposite pattern was expected in Amerjcan culture (am individualistic culture). That is, positive relations would exist between self-liki]g and self-protective accounts a[nd between self-competence and mitigating accounts. The results of rnultigroup covariance structure analyses sitpported most of the hypotheses, Nso, it was found that a more independenL self-construal predicted higher levels of self-competenee and self-liking and that all interdependent self-censtrual had weak negative links with these twe diniensions of self-esteem. The iinplications of these findings were discussed,