Editorial: Culture, Self, and Autonomy

Frontiers in Psychology

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Miriam Sang-Ah Park¹  Valery Chirkov³ 

[1] Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia;Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom;Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan

关键词: culture;    autonomy;    self;    context;    sociocultural models;    relatedness;    cross-cultural psychology;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00736

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In our special topic Culture, Self and Autonomy we have examined the complex issues relating tohow self and autonomy are explored, construed, and experienced by different subjects and acrosscultural contexts. The notion of the self stands at the center of the discussion on psychologicalautonomy, defined as a system of processes, including self-determination, self-regulation, and selfdirection (e.g., Beck, 1997; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2002; Ryan and Deci, 2017). Culture playsa key role in determining the basis of potentiality for autonomy, as it sets boundaries for theappropriate level of autonomy for individuals within a society (Chirkov, 2017). One of the primarydimensions of this topic was the development of the autonomous self in children and culturaldifferences in this developmental dynamic. Another important dimension has been the conditionsfor autonomy functioning in adolescents and young adults. The third dimension reflected in thesubmitted articles was an analysis of the macro-contexts and broad existential concerns as thebackground for autonomous functioning. The submissions to our special topic have been clusteredalong these three primary dimensions of our inquiry.

【 授权许可】

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