Sylvia Xiaohua Chen

TL;DR: In the process of managing multiple cultural environments and group loyalties, bilingual competence, and perceiving one's two cultural identities as integrated are important antecedents of beneficial psychological outcomes.

TL;DR: The proposed culture-as-situated-cognition model explains cross-national differences as due to whether a collective or individual mind-set is cued at the moment of observation, and homogeneous effects across geographic place, racial-ethnic group, task, and sensory mode-differences are cued in the moment.

TL;DR: Multiple-group path analysis showed that lay beliefs about causes of mental illness and prior help-seeking history significantly predicted help- seeking likelihood, which was related positively to environmental/hereditary causes but negatively to social-personal causes.

TL;DR: This paper examined three fundamental components contributing to life satisfaction among Chinese college students: who you are, how you conceive of yourself, and how you understand the world in which you function and found that the personality variables tapping interpersonal relationship and social axioms tapping perceptions of social contexts were significantly related with life satisfaction over and above its relationship to self-esteem.

TL;DR: It is suggested that use of a second language accesses the perceived cultural norms of the group most associated with that language, especially its prototypic trait profiles, thus activating behavioral expressions of personality that are appropriate in the corresponding linguistic-social context.