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Concern for Animals among Hunter-Gatherers Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Barton A. Thompson
This study examined the degree to which hunter-gatherers exhibited concern for animals. Six types of concern (sympathy, consequential, identity-based, respectful, protective, and indifference) were assessed in twenty-eight hunting-gathering groups from around the world using eHRAF World Cultures. Findings demonstrated that sympathy for animal agents was low, and indifference was high. High levels of
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Stability and Change of Personal Value in South Korean Adolescents: The Effect of Social Networks Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Kyeong-Jun Kim, Yun-Suk Lee
Adolescence is a period of life when an individual’s values become differentiated. Moreover, social networks undergo changes throughout the school years, making this a suitable research area for confirming the effect of network composition on the formation of human values. In this study, we examined the stability and change of values among Korean adolescents, while assessing the influence of one’s
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Cultural Correlates of Adult Attachment Dimensions: Comparing the US and Turkey Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Ezgi Sakman, Nebi Sümer
Mainstream attachment literature has chiefly employed WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) samples, yet cross-cultural studies investigating attachment dynamics outside of Western world corroborated universality of the basic tenets of attachment theory and normativity of attachment security. Importantly, these studies revealed country-level differences in the prevalence of
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Reciprocity or Community? Different Cultural Pathways to Cooperation and Welfare Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Anna Gunnthorsdottir, Palmar Thorsteinsson, Sigurdur P. Olafsson
We compare efficiency-enhancing cooperation and its underlying motives in Iceland and the US. The two countries are distinct along all measures of national culture known to us. They are however bot...
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Education and Revolutions: Why do Revolutionary Uprisings Take Violent or Nonviolent Forms? Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Vadim Ustyuzhanin, Andrey Korotayev
Is there a relationship between education and the type of revolutionary action – violent or nonviolent? Past studies found a positive relationship between the education and nonviolence, but the inf...
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A Transposition of the Minkov-Hofstede Model of Culture to the Individual Level of Analysis: Evidence from Mongolia Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Michael Minkov, Boris Sokolov, Marc A. Tasse, Erdenebileg Jamballuu, Michael Schachner, Anneli Kaasa
After Hofstede proposed individualism-collectivism (IDV-COLL) as a dimension of national culture, numerous studies have used that name to refer to individual-level psychological constructs, based o...
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Infrastructure and the Energy Use of Human Polities Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Jacob Freeman, Jacopo A. Baggio, Lux Miranda, John M. Anderies
This paper integrates scaling theory with variation in systems of governance to help explain cross-cultural differences in the energy use of human polities. In both industrial and pre-industrial po...
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Stresses of COVID-19 and Expectations for the Future Among Women: A Cross Cultural Analysis According to the Femininity/Masculinity Dimension Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Manja Vollmann, Irina Todorova, Christel Salewski, Efrat Neter
The COVID-19 pandemic created stressors and uncertainty, particularly for women. This international study explored whether the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s stressful experiences and f...
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Likely Electromagnetic Foundations of Gender Inequality Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Federico R. León
Cross-country variation of gender inequality is attributed to cultural, evolutionary, epidemiological, social, and psychological variables, but recent research has shown decreased inequality with p...
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How National Culture Influences the Speed of COVID-19 Spread: Three Cross-Cultural Studies Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Xiaoyu Huang, Vipin Gupta, Cailing Feng, Fu Yang, Lihua Zhang, Jiaming Zheng, Montgomery Van Wart
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected 222 countries and territories around the globe. Notably, the speed of COVID-19 spread varies significantly across countries. This cross-cultural research proposes...
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Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020) Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Lin Shen
The explicitness of expression or persuasion has been a critical subject of study in cross-cultural studies. The majority of cross-cultural comparisons in this respect, however, have been based on ...
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Two-Dimensional Models of Cultural Differences: Statistical and Theoretical Analysis Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Agner Fog
This study finds a common statistical pattern in all major quantitative studies of cultural differences, and discusses theories that explain this pattern.92 cultural variables from 33 published cro...
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National Cultural Moderates the Link Between Work Stress and Depression: An Analysis of Clinical Trial Projects Across Countries Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Tariq H. Malik, Chunhui Huo
Work stress (WS) and depression have become globally ubiquitous, leading to high socioeconomic costs, including high suicide rates. Unfortunately, depression and its association with WS are often i...
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Cultural Learning Among Pastoralist Children Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Temechegn G. Bira, Barry S. Hewlett
Cultural learning is a key feature of culture and our humanity. Although studies exist on children’s learning in subsistence farmers and hunter-gatherers, comparable cross-cultural studies have not...
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Love, Marriage, Family Organization and the Puzzle of Neolocality in Non-Industrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Victor C. de Munck, Andrey Korotayev, Vadim Vustiuzhanin
In this paper we answer the question, “What features of family organization promote romantic love as a basis for marriage in non-industrial societies?” We also directly address Rosenblatt’s finding...
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Social Judgments of Rapport in Investigative Interviews Across Cultures Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Matthew Wilson, David Matsumoto, Angel Nicolas Avendano Vasquez, Jose Manuel Garcia Garcla, Mai Helmy
Rapport is a fundamental psychological construct and understanding it conceptually, including how it is perceived in social interactions, may have a crucial impact on human relations. Culture may b...
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The Possible Effects of National Culture Dimensions on Sustainable Child Development Index: A Cross-Country Analysis of Countries Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Pınar Fayganoğlu, Yunus Gokmen, Rukiye Can Yalcin, Memduh Beğenirbaş, Erol Işikçi
Household income, which is one of the most important measures of a country’s economic state, does not indicate that children live in better circumstances. In the related literature, children are pl...
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The Mediating Role of Self-Enhancement Value on the Relationship of Power Distance and Individualism with Pro-Environmental Attitudes: Evidence from Multilevel Mediation Analysis with 52 Societies Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Xiaobin Lou, Liman Man Wai Li
National culture shapes people’s pro-environmental tendencies, yet its underlying psychological mechanisms are less clear. This study examined the mediating role of self-enhancement value on the re...
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An Exploration of Within-Cultural Differences of a Culture-specific Syndrome: The Case of Brazilian jeitinho Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Ronaldo Pilati, Ronald Fischer
To what extent are cultural syndromes invariant within nations or can we identify within-cultural variability in structure and endorsement of cultural syndromes? These questions are central to a) r...
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Internet, Political Regime and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Nikita Khokhlov, Andrey Korotayev
The Internet provides a medium for the rapid mobilization of dissatisfied citizens and potentially contributes to various forms of political instability, including terrorism. However, the spread of...
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Individual Religiosity and Career Choice: Does Cultural Religiosity Moderate the Relationship? Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Abu H. Ayob, Shifa Mohd Nor
Although research on the influence of religion on entrepreneurial entry has progressed substantially, the conceptual and empirical approaches are still far from being conclusive. To advance, we uti...
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Ethnic Stereotype Content Beyond Intergroup Relations Within Societies: Exploring the North-South Hypothesis for Competence and Warmth Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Dmitry Grigoryev
The study extends the approach of the Stereotype Content Model to ethnic stereotype content beyond intergroup relations within societies by exploring the North-South hypothesis for competence and w...
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The Role of Cultural Values in National-Level Innovation: Evidence from 106 Countries Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Eric Bonetto, Nicolas Pichot, Jaïs Adam-Troïan
Innovation constitutes a key factor for the economy and the competitiveness of societies. Using the Hofstede model of national culture, previous studies investigated the influence of different cult...
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The Necessity of Testing Measurement Invariance in Cross-Cultural Research: Potential Bias in Cross-Cultural Comparisons With Individualism– Collectivism Self-Report Scales Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 David Lacko, Jiří Čeněk, Jaroslav Točík, Andreja Avsec, Vladimir Đorđević, Ana Genc, Fatjona Haka, Jelena Šakotić-Kurbalija, Tamara Mohorić, Ibrahim Neziri, Siniša Subotić
Individualism and collectivism are some of the most widely applied concepts in cultural and cross-cultural research. They are commonly applied by scholars who use arithmetic means or sum indexes of items on a scale to examine the potential similarities and differences in samples from various countries. For many reasons, cross-cultural research implicates numerous methodological and statistical pitfalls
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Organizational Work–Family Initiatives, Work Demands and Conflict, and Job-Related Outcomes among Working Parents across 24 Countries Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Hsinyi Hsiao
To examine applicability of the work–family interface consisting of work–family initiatives, work demands, work–family conflict, and job-related outcomes developed in Western societies across count...
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Socio-Cultural Values Are Risk Factors for COVID-19-Related Mortality Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Ansgar D. Endress
To assess whether socio-cultural values are population-level risk factors for health, I sought to predict COVID-19-related mortality between 2 weeks and 6 months after the first COVID-19-related death in a country based on values extracted from the World Values Survey for different country sets, after controlling for various confounding variables. COVID-19-related mortality was increased in countries
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Corrigendum to Constructivist Self-Construal: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2022-02-10
Ge, F., Syropoulos, S., Gensler, J., Leidner, B., Loughnan, S., Chang, J.-H., Harada, C., Mari, S., Paladino, M. P., Shi, J., Yeung, V. W. L., Kuo, Ch.-Y., & Tsuchiya, K. (2021). Constructivist self-construal: A cross-cultural comparison. Cross-Cultural Research. 56(1), 29–61
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Taking “Thanks” for Granted: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Gratitude in the UK and Australia Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Blaire Morgan, Liz Gulliford, Lea Waters
Examinations of the influence of culture on how gratitude is experienced are sparse, as are studies that simultaneously explore developmental differences in understandings of gratitude. This paper presents three studies that examine whether perceptions and experiences of gratitude differ across children, adolescents and adults in two individualistic, WEIRD and Commonwealth cultures—Australia and the
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Using Public Datasets to Understand the Psychological Correlates of Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, and Obesity: A Country-Level Analysis Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Paul H. P. Hanel, Sara M. G. da Silva, Richard A. Inman
In the present research, we investigate whether cultural value orientations (CVOs) and aggregate personality traits (Big-5) predict actual levels of alcohol consumption, smoking, and obesity across 50 countries using averages derived from millions of data points. Aggregate traits explained variance above and beyond CVOs in obesity (particularly neuroticism and extraversion), while CVOs explained variance
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Building Quantitative Cross-Cultural Databases From Ethnographic Records: Promise, Problems and Principles Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Joseph Watts, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Chris Arnison, Elise M. Hamerslag, John H. Shaver, Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Quantitative cross-cultural databases can help uncover structure and diversity across human populations. These databases have been constructed using a variety of methodologies and have been instrumental for building and testing theories in the social sciences. The processes and assumptions behind the construction of cross-cultural databases are not always openly discussed by creators or fully appreciated
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Constructivist Self-Construal: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Fiona Ge, Stylianos Syropoulos, Julian Gensler, Bernhard Leidner, Steve Loughnan, Jen-Ho Chang, Chika Harada, Silvia Mari, Maria P. Paladino, Junqi Shi, Victoria W. L. Yeung, Chun-Yu Kuo, Koji Tsuchiya
Building on independent versus interdependent self-construal theory, three studies provide initial empirical evidence for a third way of construing the self: the constructivist self-construal. People with a constructivist view perceive the self as constantly changing (impermanence), as a collection of distinct phenomena from moment to moment (discontinuity), as lacking an essence (disentification)
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The Effectiveness of Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in Localized Contexts Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-12-04 Brandon D. Lundy, Tyler L. Collette, Taylor J. Downs
The professionalization of addressing conflict creates a field filled with specialists highly trained to apply modularized and manualized, often evidence-based solutions. But how effective are these professionalized conflict management strategies in Indigenous and localized cultural contexts compared to homegrown Indigenous approaches? While instances of these Indigenous peacebuilding and conflict
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Investigating the Impact of Different Religions on Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: A Cross-National Evidence Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Luis Rodríguez-Domínguez, Isabel Gallego-Alvarez
The growing interest in the impact that organizations have on society has made Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) a matter of extraordinary relevance. Religions are among the factors that may drive the adoption of more CSR practices and, as such, may play a significant role in their promotion. The aim here is to discover whether religions contribute to the development of a broader range of CSR initiatives
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Sense of Contribution Mediates Cultural Differences in Support-Seeking Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Takeshi Hashimoto, Claudia Gherghel
Compared to European Americans, East Asians are more reluctant to seek social support when dealing with stressful events. The purpose of this study is to test three possible explanations of these cultural differences. In addition to examining both harmony seeking and rejection avoidance (two facets of interdependence reflecting relationship concerns) as possible explanations, we propose a novel explanation
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Origins of Values Differences: A Two-Level Analysis of Economic, Climatic and Parasite Stress Explanations in the Value Domain Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Ronald Fischer
What variables are associated with cross-cultural differences in values at the individual level? In this study, the statistical effect of variables associated with ecological demands and available economic and cognitive resources on self-reported values are investigated in two independent samples to test the replicability of effects. Values are operationalized using a 10-item version inspired by Schwartz’
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Distress and Resilience in Days of COVID-19: International Study of Samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Shaul Kimhi, Yohanan Eshel, Bruria Adini, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Benedict G. Antazo, Alelie Briones-Diato, Maurício Reinert, Juliano Domingues da Silva, Fabiane Cortez Verdu, Hadas Marciano
We compared three types of resilience (individual, community, and national resilience), two indicators of distress (sense of danger and distress symptoms) and wellbeing, among samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines, during the “first-wave” of COVID-19 pandemic. Though significant differences were found among the samples regarding all variables, similarities were also emerged. Individual resilience
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What Are Friends for in Russia Versus Canada?: An Approach for Documenting Cross-Cultural Differences Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Marina M. Doucerain, Andrew G. Ryder, Catherine E. Amiot
Most research on friendship has been grounded in Western cultural worlds, a bias that needs to be addressed. To that end, we propose a methodological roadmap to translate linguistic/anthropological work into quantitative psychological cross-cultural investigations of friendship, and showcase its implementation in Russia and Canada. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on culture, we assessed cultural
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Cross-National Comparison of Breastfeeding, Malnutrition and Associated Risk Factors among Mexican-Origin Children Living in Mexico and the US Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Ana Paola Campos, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Summer Sherburne Hawkins
To examine breastfeeding, individual and household risk factors for malnutrition (i.e., overweight and stunting) among Mexican-origin children aged 6 to 35 months living in Mexico and the US. We ran logistic regression models using subsamples of the 2012 Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey, and four waves (2007-2014) of the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We found evidence
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A Test of the Revised Minkov-Hofstede Model of Culture: Mirror Images of Subjective and Objective Culture across Nations and the 50 US States Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Michael Minkov, Anneli Kaasa
Various models of subjective culture (measures of self-reports) have been proposed since Hofstede’s original work but none of them have been validated by showing that they have analogs in objective culture (measures of societal practices). Inspired by Bardi and Schwartz’s discovery that Schwartz’s individual-level circumplex values model has an exact equivalent in a model of behaviors, we develop a
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Antecedents and Appraisals of Triumph across Four Countries Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Hyisung C. Hwang, David Matsumoto, Hiroshi Yamada, Aleksandra Kostic, Juliana Granskaya
This study examined cross-cultural similarities and differences in antecedents and appraisals of triumph. Participants in the U.S., Serbia, Russia, and Japan provided open-ended descriptions of previous antecedent events that elicited experiences of triumph, and completed a standard appraisal questionnaire about those events. Events that elicited pride were also included for comparison. The open-ended
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Stereotype Threat, Intergenerational Contact, and Performance among the Elderly across Cultures: A Comparative Study of France and Indonesia Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Arum Febriani, Rasyid Bo Sanitioso
In the present research, we examined cross-cultural generalizability of the roles of anxiety and intergenerational contact in age-based stereotype threat (ABST). To this end, we conducted studies in France (individualistic culture) and Indonesia (collectivistic culture). In the main study, elderly participants in France and in Indonesia completed the Digit Span task that was presented as memory (high-threat)
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Is an Emphasis on Dignity, Honor and Face more an Attribute of Individuals or of Cultural Groups? Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Peter B. Smith, Matthew J. Easterbrook, Yasin Koc, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun, Dona Papastylianou, Lusine Grigoryan, Claudio Torres, Maria Efremova, Bushra Hassan, Ammar Abbas, Abd Halim Ahmad, Ahmed al-Bayati, Heyla A. Selim, Joel Anderson, Susan E. Cross, Gisela Isabel Delfino, Vladimer Gamsakhurdia, Alin Gavreliuc, Dana Gavreliuc, Pelin Gul, Ceren Günsoy, Anna Hakobjanyan, Siugmin Lay, Olga Lopukhova, Ping
This study compares the individual-level and sample-level predictive utility of a measure of the cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face. University students in 29 samples from 24 nations used ...
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Culturally Imprinted Anxiety and the Itinerary of Clinical Trial Projects for Its Management Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Tariq H. Malik
Anxiety has become ubiquitous in modern life, across countries. Cultural theories suggest that high uncertainty avoidance (UA) increases anxiety, while long-term orientation (LTO) decreases it. We ...
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The Culture of Time Inventory: Comparison of Time Attitudes Pertaining to Timed Testing in Russian and American Adults Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Anna V. Agranovich, Zarui A. Melikyan, Abigail T. Panter
A measure of time attitudes, Culture of Time Inventory—33 items (COTI-33), was developed and validated in English and Russian on 560 American and 517 Russian respondents. The study aim was to exami...
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A Test of the Reproducibility of the Clustering of Cultural Variables Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Agner Fog
Cultural variables from many different cross-cultural studies can be divided into two clusters of variables that are strongly correlated within each cluster. This is reflected in two factors that are found to be reproduced by independent sets of cultural variables and also reflected in several different cross-cultural studies. The first factor, called superfactor, reflects the combined effects of development
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What Crowdsourcing Can Offer to Cross-Cultural Psychological Science Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Kelly Cuccolo, Megan S. Irgens, Martha S. Zlokovich, Jon Grahe, John E. Edlund
Although the benefits of crowdsourcing research models have been outlined elsewhere, very little attention has been paid to the application of these models to cross-cultural behavioral research. In this manuscript, we delineate two types of crowdsourcing initiatives—researcher crowdsourced and participant crowdsourced. Researcher crowdsourced refers to initiatives where researchers are gathered to
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Implications of Culturally Implicit Perspective of Emotional Intelligence Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Saurav Pathak, Etayankara Muralidharan
This article proposes a culturally implicit perspective of emotional intelligence and introduces the notion of culture-specific emotional intelligence (CSEI). Emotional intelligence (EI) as a construct has predominantly been associated with the individual. Given that emotions are also implicit beliefs and that their experience, expression, and management are known to be driven by cultural values, we
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Sex Difference on the Importance of Veiling: A Cross-Cultural Investigation Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-06-13 Farid Pazhoohi, Alan Kingstone
Veiling is an ancient cultural practice endorsed by religion, social institutions, and laws. Recently, there have been adaptive arguments to explain its function and existence. Specifically, it is argued that veiling women is a form of male mate guarding strategy, which aims to increase sexual fidelity by decreasing overt displays of his mate’s physical attractiveness, thereby helping to secure his
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Assessing the Importance of Internal and External Self-Esteem and Their Relationship to Honor Concerns in Six Countries Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-05-29 Yvette van Osch, Michael Bender, Jia He, Byron G. Adams, Filiz Kunuroglu, Richard N. Tillman, Isabel Benítez, Lusanda Sekaja, Neo Mamathuba
We assessed empirical support for (a) the widely held notion that across so-called “honor, dignity, and face cultures,” internal and external components of self-esteem are differentially important for overall self-esteem; and (b) the idea that concerns for honor are related to internal and external components of self-esteem in honor cultures but not in dignity and face cultures. Most importantly, we
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Gender Role Attitudes in the International Social Survey Programme: Cross-National Comparability and Relationships to Cultural Values Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 Vera Lomazzi, Daniel Seddig
Differences in societal views on the roles of men and women have been addressed in many large-scale comparative studies by employing indicators of gender roles attitudes from cross-sectional surveys. Assuming that cross-country differences in gender role attitudes are linked to the prevailing cultural value orientations in each society, this study aims at investigating the association between societal
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Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Jüri Allik, Kalmer Lauk, Anu Realo
It has been repeatedly demonstrated that economic affluence is one of the main predictors of the scientific wealth of nations. Yet, the link is not as straightforward as is often presented. First, only a limited set of relatively affluent countries is usually studied. Second, there are differences between equally rich countries in their scientific success. The main aim of the present study is to find
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Culture Moderates the Normative and Distinctive Impact of Parents and Similarity on Young Adults’ Partner Preferences Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-04-17 Kenneth D. Locke, Daniela Barni, Hiroaki Morio, Geoff MacDonald, Khairul A. Mastor, José de Jesús Vargas-Flores, Joselina Ibáñez-Reyes, Jose Alberto S. Reyes, Shanmukh Kamble, Fernando A. Ortiz
To examine cultural, parental, and personal sources of young adults’ long-term romantic partner preferences, we had undergraduates (n = 2,071) and their parents (n = 1,851) in eight countries (Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines, the United States) rate or rank qualities they would want in the student’s partner. We introduce and use a method for separating preference patterns
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Tracking Cross-Cultural Gender Bias in Reputations Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2020-04-13 Emily R. Post, Shane J. Macfarlan
While ethnologists have long noted that females lack access to social capital across cultures, the magnitude of this effect is rarely examined. Here, we investigate the nature of gender bias in one dimension of social capital, reputation. We extract data on reputations from the electronic Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF) database, specifically the societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample,
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Relative Deprivation as a Factor of Sociopolitical Destabilization: Toward a Quantitative Comparative Analysis of the Arab Spring Events Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2019-11-05 Andrey V. Korotayev, Alisa R. Shishkina
The article analyzes relative deprivation as a possible factor of sociopolitical instability during the Arab Spring events using the methods of correlation and multiple regression analysis. In this case, relative deprivation is operationalized in two ways: (a) through the indicator of subjective feeling of happiness on the eve of the events of the Arab Spring, and (b) through the scale of decrease
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Variation of Human Values and Modernization: Preliminary Results Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Andrey Korotayev, Elena Slinko, Kira Meshcherina, Julia Zinkina
The current article investigates the relation between values and modernization applying some elements of the method proposed by Inglehart and Welzel (the authors of the Human Development Sequence Theory) to the data of Shalom Schwartz. The values survey by Schwartz specifies two main value axes, namely, conservation versus openness to change and self-transcendence versus self-enhancement. Our research
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Cultural Models of Substance Use Risk and Attributed Stigma: A Comparison of Young Adults in Brazil and the United States Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2019-09-16 Nicole L. Henderson, William W. Dressler
The stigma associated with substance use is well known, but little research has examined stigma attribution, or the tendency to stigmatize, nor is there much cross-cultural research on the topic. We examine cultural models for the risk of substance use associated with stigma attribution in two settings: the United States and Brazil. Study populations of young adults are the focus in each setting. Using
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Too Late? What Do You Mean? Cultural Norms Regarding Lateness for Meetings and Appointments Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Wendelien van Eerde, Sana Azar
In this study, we extend the research on lateness for meetings and appointments by taking a cultural norms perspective among South African (n = 76), Dutch (n = 86), and Pakistani (n = 83) respondents. Based upon the distinction between clock time and event time cultures, we examined time norms related to lateness. Pakistani respondents (from an event time culture) differed from the other two groups
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Societal Ethics and Social Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2019-08-05 Saurav Pathak, Etayankara Muralidharan
Using multilevel modeling and data from 26 countries that include 93,439 individual-level responses on social entrepreneurship for the year 2015, we seek to understand how societal-level ethical orientations impact the likelihood of individuals engaging in social entrepreneurship. We develop a multidimensional representation of societal ethics, in that we draw close parallels between the three institutional
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Preferred Parental Control of Mate Choice, Opposition to Out-Group Mating, and Ethnic Identification in Surinam Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2019-07-14 Abraham P. Buunk, Glenn Leckie, Dahira Pollack
This study examined the attitude toward parental control of mate choice, and two potential factors related to this, that is, opposition to out-group mating and ethnic identification, in the five major ethnic groups from the Republic of Surinam (n = 500), that is, Hindustani, Creoles, Maroons, Javanese, and people of Mixed descent. Some of the main differences between groups were the following: Hindustani
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An International Study of Pro/Antisocial Behavior in Young Adults Cross-Cultural Research (IF 2.178) Pub Date : 2019-06-11 Miguel Basto-Pereira, Inês Queiroz-Garcia, Laura Maciel, Isabel Leal, Maria Gouveia-Pereira
This article presents an international study of pro/antisocial behavior in young adults (SOCIALDEVIANCE1820). This is an ongoing cross-continental longitudinal research project that includes data and researchers from multiple countries across five continents. It aims to explore the intercultural universality of the risk and protective factors associated with pro/antisocial behavior and psychosocial