TITLE:
Who Is More Collectivistic? Hong Kong Chinese or Australian Chinese
AUTHORS:
Lufanna Ching-Han Lai
KEYWORDS:
Collective Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem, Subjective Wellbeing, Individualism-Collectivism, A Revised Homeostatic Model of Subjective Wellbeing
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.3 No.9,
September
18,
2015
ABSTRACT: This study investigated the relative
importance of self-esteem and collective self-esteem (CSE) in predicting
subjective wellbeing (SWB) for the Hong Kong Chinese and Australian Chinese,
with the latter group comprising the first generation and second generation
immigrants. By embedding in the homeostatic model of SWB, both self-esteem and
CSE predicted SWB variance for all Chinese respondents, though it was
intriguing that CSE made stronger prediction for the Australian Chinese than
Hong Kong Chinese and that the amount of SWB variance contributed by CSE was the
highest for the Australian second generation Chinese immigrants. These results
were consistent with the higher level of collectivism measured in the
Australian Chinese. Explanations are in the context of migrant status.