Dilemma Tales as African Knowledge Practice: An Example From Research on Obligations of Support
dc.contributor.author | Esiaka, Darlingtina | |
dc.contributor.author | Adams, Glenn E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Osei-tutu, Annabella | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-30T14:45:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-30T14:45:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-10-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Esiaka D, Adams G and Osei-tutu A (2020) Dilemma Tales as African Knowledge Practice: An Example From Research on Obligations of Support. Front. Psychol. 11:546330. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.546330 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/33354 | |
dc.description.abstract | This contribution to the Frontiers research topic collection on African Cultural Models considers dilemma tales: an African knowledge practice in which narrators present listeners with a difficult choice that usually has ethical or moral implications. We adapted the dilemma tale format to create research tasks. We then used these research tasks to investigate conceptions of care, support, and relationality among participants in Ghanaian, African American, and European American settings that vary in affordances for embedded interdependence vs. modern individualism. Results revealed hypothesized patterns, such that judgments about the inappropriateness of institutionalized eldercare (vs. home elder care) and prioritization of material support to parent (over spouse) were greater among Ghanaian participants than European American participants. Responses of African American participants were more ambiguous, resembling European American acceptance of institutionalized eldercare relative to Ghanaian participants, but resembling Ghanaian tendencies to prioritize support to parent (over spouse) relative to European American participants. Results illuminate that standard patterns of hegemonic psychological science (e.g., tendencies to prioritize obligations to spouse over mother) are the particular product of WEIRD cultural ecologies rather than context-general characteristics. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2020 Esiaka, Adams and Osei-tutu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | African cultural models | en_US |
dc.subject | Dilemma tales | en_US |
dc.subject | Relationality | en_US |
dc.subject | Obligation | en_US |
dc.subject | Eldercare | en_US |
dc.subject | Family | en_US |
dc.subject | Interdependence | en_US |
dc.title | Dilemma Tales as African Knowledge Practice: An Example From Research on Obligations of Support | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Adams, Glenn E. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Psychology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.546330 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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