Self-Enhancement and Self-Stability Predict School Achievement at the National Level

This article uses as a starting point S. Heine's hypothesis that higher self-enhancement correlates with self-stability and the combination of the two may predict lower interest in some types of self-improvement. This hypothesis is tested at the ecological level. World Values Survey items are used to demonstrate that there exists a bipolar cultural dimension with two main strongly correlated facets. One of them captures some aspects of...