Family-centered collectivists treat kin ties as central to self and duty

Evidence

1. I often turn to my family for social and emotional support. 2. Learning about the traditions, customs, values, and beliefs of my family is important to me. 3. My family is central to who I am. 4. I know I can always count on my family to help me. 5. It is important to me to respect decisions made by my family. 6. Family is more important to me than almost anything else. 7. Whenever my family needs something, I try to help. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1109

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Collectivist self-definition buffers individual distress while amplifying shared family trauma. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1034; For collectivists, group membership and relationships constitute personal identity — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1110; Humans are constituted by their social relations rather than an intrinsic essence — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2517

Broader Connections

• For collectivists, group membership and relationships constitute personal identity #corroborates (0.95) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1110
• Humans are constituted by their social relations rather than an intrinsic essence #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2517