0000000000354786
AUTHOR
Jay J. Van Bavel
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Funder: Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence Scheme, FAIR project No 262675
Culture-level dimensions of social axioms and their correlates across 41 cultures
Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and conservatism and with national indices indicative of lower social development. Societal Cynicism is less strongly and broadly correlated with previous values measures or other national indices and seems to define a novel cultural syndrome. Its national …