The word
"collectivistic" describes a behavior or belief in which a group or society is valued more than the individual. It means that people place importance on working together as a team, sharing resources, and making decisions that benefit the whole group.
Full definition
Nevertheless, it is noticeable that in some studies this result is overturned and the relationship between them has been reported to be positive, especially
in collectivistic cultures such as China and Japan (Steger et al., 2008c; Wang & Dai, 2008).
But this relationship might not hold for individuals living in
more collectivistic societies, which place more emphasis on social harmony and conformity than on self - expression, the researchers hypothesized.
Psychologically, the more integrated social network characteristic
of collectivistic cultures may have reduced the risk for psychopathology in these populations due to the high prevalence of sensitivity alleles.
Even though individuals from
collectivistic societies might be coming up with fewer creative ideas, the quality of those ideas tends to be just as good as or marginally better than those of their individualistic counterparts.
Within a culturally - bound perspective on attachment styles (Keller, 2013; Mesman & Emmen, 2013), this study suggests that Malaysian culture can be categorized
as collectivistic more than individualistic.
It is likely that the people who adhere more to the traditional
collectivistic orientation, such as Chinese, Japanese, and even South American, construct relationship models differently from people who are from the more individualistic societies (Gaines, Buriel, Liu, & Rios, 1997).
Five - factor model of personality and job satisfaction: The importance of agreeableness in a tight and
collectivistic Asian society
A robust relationship was found such that the 5 - HTTLPR short allele, which we have referred to here as a social sensitivity allele, was much more prevalent in
collectivistic populations than individualistic populations.
These Western values have seemingly undercut
traditional collectivistic ideals including the importance of interconnectedness within Chinese culture, the interdependent sense of self in which one's personal goals are subordinate to the collective aims, and the central role of the extended family (Auerbach et al. 2007; Yeh and Inose 2002; Yeh and Wang 2000).
Comparing to people from individualistic societies, individuals from the
relatively collectivistic cultures tend to place emphasis on external forces in their social relationships (Leung, 1996).
We Protestants, in reacting against the objectivistic and
collectivistic excesses of the late Middle Ages, have overreacted and have been left with fragmenting individualism and suffocating subjectivism.
Unlike Western cultures, where harmonious social relations rest upon the satisfaction of individual needs or rights and fairness to all, «proper behavior in the
Confucian collectivistic culture is defined by social roles, with mutual obligation among members of society and the fulfillment of their duties for each other being emphasized» (Ho, 2001, p. 100).
Singaporean Chinese are
collectivistic like many East Asians under the cultural influences of Confucianism (Ji, et al., 2010).
A more recent meta - analysis suggested that people from China consistently endorsed
strong collectivistic values compared to people from Western countries (Oyserman, Coon, & Kemmelmeier, 2002).
Countries in Asia typically (regardless of economic / political system) have
very collectivistic and less individualistic tendency.
Economic affairs inescapably raise questions of justice, which no institutional structure, individualistic or
collectivistic, can automatically insure.
Phrases with «collectivistic»