%0 Journal Article
%T Autonomy每Connectedness, Self
%A A. J. L. M. van Balkom
%A E. A. P. Rutten
%A J. Maas
%A M. A. L. M. van Assen
%A M. H. J. Bekker
%J Journal of Cross
%@ 1552-5422
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0022022118808924
%X The present study investigated the associations between self-construal, acculturation, and autonomy每connectedness, as well as the relations between autonomy每connectedness and psychopathological symptoms, controlling for self-construal and acculturation. Participants were 1,209 Dutch individuals, of whom 693 (57.3%) were immigrants with a non-Western background. Results showed that an independent self-construal was positively associated with self-awareness and capacity for managing new situations, and was negatively associated with sensitivity to others (which are the three components of autonomy每connectedness). Moreover, an interdependent self-construal was negatively associated with self-awareness and capacity for managing new situations, and was positively associated with sensitivity to others. Importantly, the latter associations were similar for both Dutch natives and immigrants, and the associations between acculturation and autonomy每connectedness were small and nonsignificant. Autonomy每connectedness, after controlling for self-construal and acculturation, explained a large amount of additional variance in anxiety (12.7%) and depression (14.1), and a medium amount of additional variance in drive for thinness (3.7%) and bulimia (4.8%). Autonomy每connectedness, thus, seems to be an important construct for people with a Western background, as well as for immigrants with a non-Western background
%K autonomy每connectedness
%K self-construal
%K acculturation
%K anxiety
%K depression
%K eating disorders
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022022118808924