Uyghur-Chinese are More Independent and Interdependent than Han-Chinese

The authors predicted and found that Uyghur-Chinese are more independent and interdependent than Han-Chinese in explicit and implicit measurement: (a) Uyghur-Chinese are more independent in explicit beliefs and show strong dispositional bias, express more socially disengaging emotion and have more relational mobility; (b) at the same time, they are more interdependent in explicit beliefs and show strong situational bias, expressed more socially engaging emotion, and have a more holistic thinking style. The results suggested that Uyghur-Chinese may have a unique self-construal pattern different from Eastern-Western Paradigm.