From tiger moms to effective teamwork : how interdependent motivation can power action
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In three separate but interrelated sets of studies of this dissertation research, I examine interdependent motivation—or action toward a goal that derives from the input of others. One factor that can facilitate interdependent motivation is an interdependent mindset, or understanding that others are part of the self. Part 1 examines how Asian American compared to European American high school students experience interdependent motivation from the input of close others, namely their mothers, and how interdependence can explain this motivation for Asian Americans. Part 2 examines how the construction of situations of parental influence in the U.S. and India can explain differences in interdependent motivation, and how people's interpretation of these situations reflect their interdependent and independent mindsets. Part 3 compares how Asian American and European American pairs of university students work together on a collaborative task of creative problem solving. It also examines whether manipulating mindsets can facilitate interdependent motivation. We show that people who are likely to have habitual interdependent mindsets—East Asian Americans, South Asians, and South Asian Americans—benefit from the input of others who they feel are a part of themselves and perform relatively well. In contrast, people who are likely to have habitual independent mindsets—European Americans—are more likely to experience others, even close others, as separate from themselves and have more difficulty the input of others to facilitate their performance. Together the three sets of studies have implications for why Tiger Mothers can motivate Asians but not European Americans, and why European Americans often struggle when tasks require collaboration.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Fu, Alyssa |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology. |
| Primary advisor | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Primary advisor | Tsai, Jeanne Ling |
| Primary advisor | Walton, Gregory M. (Gregory Mariotti) |
| Thesis advisor | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Thesis advisor | Tsai, Jeanne Ling |
| Thesis advisor | Walton, Gregory M. (Gregory Mariotti) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alyssa Fu. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Alyssa Shu-Yee Fu
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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