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    STUDIA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2000  
         
  Article:   COLLECTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF IN ROMANIAN CULTURE.

Authors:  SOFIA CHIRICĂ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  This study is designed to examine the correspondence between psychological processes and social situations in various Romanian educational settings, as this correspondence was predicted by a collective constructionist theory. Undergraduates’ responses to situational definitions sampled from five faculties were analyzed. The respondents in each department were more likely to choose the own department-made situations as relevant to their self-confidence. The own department-made situations were also judged to have more influence on the respondents’ self-confidence than were the other department-made situations. This culture effect was especially qualified by the success situations. Romanian undergraduates judged that their self-confidence would increase more in the success situations than it would decrease in the failure situations. Gender effect has proved less significant than department culture effect. However, first, the female respondents have chosen more situations as relevant to their self-confidence and have also judged the situations as having more influence on their self-confidence comparatively with the male respondents. Second, the situations originally generated by women have been perceived, by both men and women, as having more influence on self-confidence than those originally generated by men. Third, both male and female respondents judged that their self-confidence would increase more in the success situations than it would decrease in failure situations.  
         
     
         
         
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