TY - JOUR

T1 - An Experimental Study of Cultural Identity Goal Striving in German-Turkish Biculturals

AU - Doerflinger, Johannes T.

AU - Poyraz, Erkan

AU - Özen, Rabia

AU - Byrka, Katarzyna

AU - Gollwitzer, Peter M.

N1 - The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the BEETHOVEN Classic 3 – Polish-German Funding Initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the National Science Centre (NCN), Project No. 2018/31/G/HS6/01382. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s).

PY - 2022/7/1

Y1 - 2022/7/1

N2 - We explore motivational processes stemming from bicultural identity goals of being Turkish and being German by investigating the effect of identity goal incompleteness versus completeness in the two identity goals on the use of multifinal means to self-symbolize German-Turkish cultural identity goals. Individuals incomplete in either or both identity goals were more likely than individuals complete in both identity goals to engage in multifinal self-symbolizing via social media activity (Experiment 1) and helping (Experiment 2). Incompleteness regarding the two identity goals had an additive effect on effort and elicited distinct patterns of subjectively experienced incompleteness for German and Turkish cultural identity goals (Experiment 2). These findings offer new insights relevant for symbolic self-completion theory and goal systems theory.

AB - We explore motivational processes stemming from bicultural identity goals of being Turkish and being German by investigating the effect of identity goal incompleteness versus completeness in the two identity goals on the use of multifinal means to self-symbolize German-Turkish cultural identity goals. Individuals incomplete in either or both identity goals were more likely than individuals complete in both identity goals to engage in multifinal self-symbolizing via social media activity (Experiment 1) and helping (Experiment 2). Incompleteness regarding the two identity goals had an additive effect on effort and elicited distinct patterns of subjectively experienced incompleteness for German and Turkish cultural identity goals (Experiment 2). These findings offer new insights relevant for symbolic self-completion theory and goal systems theory.

KW - bicultural identity

KW - goal systems

KW - multifinality

KW - symbolic self-completion theory

KW - Psychology

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U2 - 10.1027/1864-9335/a000486

DO - 10.1027/1864-9335/a000486

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85139843704

VL - 53

SP - 185

EP - 197

JO - Social Psychology

JF - Social Psychology

SN - 1864-9335

IS - 4

ER -