The impact of communal-mastery versus self-mastery on emotional outcomes during stressful conditions: A prospective study of Native American women
Abstract
Past research has examined the stress resiliency of individuals high in sense of personal-mastery. However, it has been theorized that within more collectivist cultures, a sense of shared efficacy, which we call communal-mastery, may be more central to people's resiliency in the face of challenging life circumstances. We compared the impact of sense of self-mastery (i.e., "I am the key to my success") to that of communal-mastery (i.e., "I am successful by virtue of my social attachments") in a prospective study among a group of rural 103 Native American women residing on Indian Reservations in Montana. We found that women high in communal-mastery experienced less increase in depressive mood and anger, especially when faced with high stress circumstances, than women who were low in communal-mastery. In addition, the beneficial impact of communal-mastery was found to be more effective than self-mastery for these women.
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American Journal of Community Psychology
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Hobfoll, S., Jackson, A., Hobfoll, I., Pierce, C., & Young, S. (2002). The impact of communal-mastery versus self-mastery on emotional outcomes during stressful conditions: A prospective study of Native American women. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30 (6), 853-871. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020209220214
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