Ninety years after Lewin: The role of familism and attachment style in social networks characteristics across 21 nations/areas

Xian Zhao; Omri Gillath; Itziar Alonso-Arbiol; Amina Abubakar; Byron G. Adams; Frédérique Autin; Audrey Brassard; Rodrigo J. Carcedo; Or Catz; Cecilia Cheng; Tamlin S. Conner; Tasuku Igarashi; Konstantinos Kafetsios; Shanmukh Kamble; Gery Karantzas; Rafael Emilio Mendía-Monterroso; João M. Moreira; Tobias Nolte; Willibald Ruch; Sandra Sebre; Angela Suryani; Semira Tagliabue; Qi Xu; Fang Zhang

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Ninety years after Lewin: The role of familism and attachment style in social networks characteristics across 21 nations/areas

Xian Zhao, Omri Gillath, Itziar Alonso-Arbiol, Amina Abubakar, Byron G. Adams, Frédérique Autin, Audrey Brassard, Rodrigo J. Carcedo, Or Catz, Cecilia Cheng, Tamlin S. Conner, Tasuku Igarashi, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Shanmukh Kamble, Gery Karantzas, Rafael Emilio Mendía-Monterroso, João M. Moreira, Tobias Nolte, Willibald Ruch, Sandra SebreAngela Suryani, Semira Tagliabue, Qi Xu, Fang Zhang

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Drawing on the literature on person-culture fit, we investigated how culture (assessed as national-level familism), personality (tapped by attachment styles) and their interactions predicted social network characteristics in 21 nations/areas (N = 2977). Multilevel mixed modeling showed that familism predicted smaller network size but greater density, tie strength, and multiplexity. Attachment avoidance predicted smaller network size, and lower density, tie strength, and multiplexity. Attachment anxiety was related to lower density and tie strength. Familism enhanced avoidance’s association with network size and reduced its association with density, tie strength, and multiplexity. Familism also enhanced anxiety’s association with network size, tie strength, and multiplexity. These findings contribute to theory building on attachment and culture, highlight the significance of culture by personality interaction for the understanding of social networks, and call attention to the importance of sampling multiple countries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2251-2275
Journal	Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Volume	41
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241237939
Publication status	Published - Aug 2024
Externally published	Yes

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Basque Goverment	IT1598-22
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation	PID2020-115738GB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/

Keywords

attachment
familism
person-culture fit
social network
Cross-cultural

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Zhao, X., Gillath, O., Alonso-Arbiol, I., Abubakar, A., Adams, B. G., Autin, F., Brassard, A., Carcedo, R. J., Catz, O., Cheng, C., Conner, T. S., Igarashi, T., Kafetsios, K., Kamble, S., Karantzas, G., Mendía-Monterroso, R. E., Moreira, J. M., Nolte, T., Ruch, W., ... Zhang, F. (2024). Ninety years after Lewin: The role of familism and attachment style in social networks characteristics across 21 nations/areas. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(8), 2251-2275. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241237939

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