Psychological Models for Assessing Ethnocultural Factors in Social Competence

摘要

This report reviews major psychological models of competence for their potential applicability to research on ethnocultural factors in social competence assessment. Historical background is provided on trait, environmentalist, and interactional theories which have guided past research. A multi-dimensional analysis of selected models of competence is provided to identify salient neglected aspects of the relationship of culture to competence. This analysis includes the variables of: (1) affect, (2) autonomy, (3) cognition, (4) motivation, (5) socialization, (6) stability, (7) process, (8) self-symbol formation, (9) the ethnocultural, (10) interactional, (11) interpersonal conceptual frameworks of competence (12) the Macro level, (13) micro level units of analysis for competence, the (14) the objective, and (15) subjective levels of competence. Important theroretical, methodological and empirical questions related to culture and competence are proposed. (Author)