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Culture-level dimensions of social axioms and their correlates across 41 cultures
Andrianna ViskochilSophie M. LambertLy SycipKaisa-kitri NiitMaria Cristina FerreiraNandita ChaudharyMihály BerkicsDien Fakhri IqbalFélix NetoFons Van DevijverAdrian FurnhamKimberly A. NoelsKlaus BoehnkeFumio MurakamiSujata SriramIva Poláčková ŠOlcováXu HuangMargareta DincaPenny PanagiotopoulouJianxin ZhangBilge AtacaRosnah IsmailKyung Ae SonJenny KurmanRam David TheinKwang-kuo HwangAnna Laura ComunianIvars AustersAndrew MogajiAl K. C. AuZainal A. AhmedHelena HurmeDavid L. SamNadezhda LebedevaJoseph O. T. OdusanyaEdgar W. KlingerGünter BierbrauerOksana PonomarevaColleen WardSilvia CampoToomas NiitJay J. Van BavelLuis OcejaMichael Harris BondMuhammad Jahanzeb KhanWilliam E. CabanillasMárta FülöpNeharika VohraMarkus BroerNino JavakhishviliCharles HarbKwok Kit TongSteven M. BurgessMia BölingSaba SafdarVijé FranchiJune Bernadette D’souzaRosa CabecinhasFilip BoenKwok LeungGuguli MagradzeIva StetovskaLina ChenSharon Reimel De CarrasquelSusumu YamaguchiAnjali GhoshPaulo XavierTheodore M. SingelisJ. Rees Lewissubject
Cultural StudiesSocial PsychologySocial Axioms Survey05 social sciencesCultural group selectionSocial changeCollectivism050109 social psychologySocietal cynicismSocial value orientations050105 experimental psychologyCynicismPsicologiaCultural dimensionsSocial systemAnthropology:Psychology [Social sciences]:Psicologia [Ciências sociais]PsychologyDynamic externality0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesHofstede's cultural dimensions theorySocial axiomsPsychologySocial psychologydescription
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 correlates suggest that it taps the cognitive component of a cultural constellation labeled maleficence, a cultural syndrome associated with a general mistrust of social systems and other people. Discussion focused on the meaning of these national level factors of beliefs and on their relationships with individual level factors of belief derived from the same data set.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2004-09-01 |