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Psychology -- Aspects of the Self

As a women, I have been intimately familiar with interdependency for the majority of my life. It is only in the last few years that I have embraced a level of independence that rivals that of the men I know. Triandis (1994) suggests that we draw on the interdependent and independent aspects of ourselves as we need to, but I suspect that these construals are also established by the moment-by-moment interactions we have with others. My independence is represented by the social roles that I adopt: I am a sister and a girlfriend. In these roles, I proceed from a relational construal. My actions are fundamentally considered to be my own, reflecting well or poorly on me -- not on my brother and not on my girlfriends. Similarly, my interdependency is reflected in my role as a daughter. Social and familial regard for me as a daughter is highly associated with my family members, who my parents are, and where we are positioned in our culture and community. When I received recognition for work that I was doing in the community, my parents took it very much to heart.

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They felt that the achievement was as much theirs as it was mine. There is an assumption that the rightness or wrongness of my upbringing is demonstrated through my behavior. This interdependency between offspring and parents seems inescapable. However, it never crossed my mind at the time I was giving service in my community that I was doing so in an interdependent manner -- I believed that I was acting as my own independent agent. My siblings and my friends, while they did applaud my success, did not take any ownership in my achievement. To my peers and my siblings, it was simply a nice thing to happen to me, but it did not reflect on them -- because my success was achieved independently, it was an event both distant and separate from them.

Fear of censorship can be a key driver of interdependent construal. Kitayama, et al. (1997) would argue that my efforts in the community are based in my independent self-construal….....

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