Autonomy and agency are used extensively and often interchangeably; there is a debate
regarding their intersections with relatedness and separateness. This scholarship occurs
within mainly a Euro-American cultural context that provides an ideological background of
individualism, shedding light on psychological thinking. The article attempts to provide a
broad overview of the issues involved. Two distinct dimensions, agency and interpersonal
distance, are seen to underlie the self constructs involving autonomy and relatedness that …