The DOI matches its Crossref record; 9 of the 9 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
When Personality and Culture Clash: The Psychological Distress of Allocentrics in an Individualist Culture and Idiocentrics in a Collectivist Culture
Abstract
Because humans need both autonomy and interdependence, persons with either an extreme collectivist orientation (allocentrics) or extreme individualist values (idiocentrics) may be at risk for possession of some features of psychopathology. Is an extreme personality style a risk factor primarily when it conflicts with the values of the surrounding society? Individualism-collectivism scenarios and a battery of clinical and personality scales were administered to nonclinical samples of college students in Boston and Istanbul. For students residing in a highly individualistic society (Boston), collectivism scores were positively correlated with depression, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and dependent personality. Individualism scores, particularly horizontal individualism, were negatively correlated with these same scales. A different pattern was obtained for students residing in a collectivist culture, Istanbul. Here individualism (and especially horizontal individualism) was positively correlated with scales for paranoid, schizoid, narcissistic, borderline and antisocial personality disorder. Collectivism (particularly vertical collectivism) was associated with low report of symptoms on these scales. These results indicate that having a personality style which conflicts with the values of society is associated with psychiatric symptoms. Having an orientation inconsistent with societal values may thus be a risk factor for poor mental health.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Gottfredson, M. R., & Hirschi, T. (1990) · doi:10.1515/9781503621794 · Cited by 10,127
Rethinking individualism and collectivism: Evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta-analyses.
Oyserman, D., Coon, H. M., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2002) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.128.1.3 · Cited by 5,758
Cognitive Therapy of Depression
HOLLON, S. D., & BECK, A. T. (1979) · Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-404480-7.50012-5 · Cited by 4,685
Cross-Cultural Correlates of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem
Diener, E., & Diener, M. (1995) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.68.4.653 · Cited by 1,722
Age norms for impulsiveness, venturesomeness and empathy in adults
Eysenck, S. B. G., Pearson, P. R., Easting, G., & Allsopp, J. F. (1985) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/0191-8869(85)90011-x · Cited by 1,163
Hui, C. H., & Triandis, H. C. (1986) · Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology · doi:10.1177/0022002186017002006 · Cited by 1,154 · cited 3×
“Collectivistic cultures encourage strong links among members of a social group, who subordinate personal needs for the good of the group, or choose goals which do not threaten group harmony (Hui & Triandis, 1986).”
BackgroundIndividual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self
(2015) · doi:10.4324/9781315783024 · Cited by 810
The validation of a new obsessive–compulsive disorder scale: The Obsessive–Compulsive Inventory
Foa, E. B., Kozak, M. J., Salkovskis, P. M., Coles, M. E., & Amir, N. (1998) · Psychological Assessment · doi:10.1037/1040-3590.10.3.206 · Cited by 719 · cited 9×
“TOTAL 34.1 (13.9) 31.1 (9.4) 26.4 (11.6)* 5.0 .01 Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (OCI) Checking Distress 8.8 (7.2) 5.9 (4.2) 5.3 (4.5)* 4.7 .01 Hoarding Distress 4.0 (3.0) 2.3 (2.1) 2.6 (2.3)* 4.2 .01 Mental Neutralizing Distress 5.1 (4.6) 2.8 (2.2)* 3.0 (3.0)* 5.0 .01 Checking Frequency 11.7 (7.5) 8.6 (5.1) 7.8 (4.7)* 5.…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialAycicegi, A., Dinn, W. M., Harris, C. L., & Erkmen, H. (2003) · European Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/s0924-9338(03)00065-8 · Cited by 105
Cited by
Cultural aspects in social anxiety and social anxiety disorder
Hofmann, S. G., Anu Asnaani, M. A., & Hinton, D. E. (2010) · Depression and Anxiety · doi:10.1002/da.20759 · Cited by 469
A cross-ethnic comparison of lifetime prevalence rates of anxiety disorders
Asnaani, A., Richey, J. A., Dimaite, R., Hinton, D. E., & Hofmann, S. G. (2010) · Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease · doi:10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181ea169f · Cited by 331
Marrone, S. (2007) · International Journal of Circumpolar Health · doi:10.3402/ijch.v66i3.18254 · Cited by 264
Cheung, R. Y. M., & Ng, M. C. Y. (2019) · Mindfulness · doi:10.1007/s12671-018-1069-y · Cited by 78
Du, H., Li, X., Lin, D., & Tam, C. C. (2015) · Community Mental Health Journal · doi:10.1007/s10597-014-9785-9 · Cited by 48
“When people’s own values are consistent with culture values, they are more likely to have a better mental health (Caldwell-Harris and Ayçiçegi 2006).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Caldwell-Harris, C. L., & Ayçiçegi, A.
- Venue
- Transcultural Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2006-09
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 331-361
- ISSN
- 1363-4615 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7471
- OpenAlex
- W2044327130
- Cited by
- 214
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 2.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: When Personality and Culture Clash: The Psychological Distress of Allocentrics in an Individualist Culture and Idiocentrics in a Collectivist Culture. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1177/1363461506066982
- The paper
- Caldwell-Harris, C. L., & Ayçiçegi, A. (2006). When Personality and Culture Clash: The Psychological Distress of Allocentrics in an Individualist Culture and Idiocentrics in a Collectivist Culture. Transcultural Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461506066982
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
