Authors
Michael Harris Bond, Kwok Leung, Al Au, Kwok-Kit Tong, Sharon Reimel De Carrasquel, Fumio Murakami, Susumu Yamaguchi, Günter Bierbrauer, Theodore M Singelis, Markus Broer, Filip Boen, Sophie M Lambert, Maria Cristina Ferreira, Kimberly A Noels, Jay Van Bavel, Saba Safdar, Jianxin Zhang, Lina Chen, Iva Solcova, Iva Stetovska, Toomas Niit, Kaisa-Kitri Niit, Helena Hurme, Mia Böling, Vijé Franchi, Guguli Magradze, Nino Javakhishvili, Klaus Boehnke, Edgar Klinger, Xu Huang, Marta Fulop, Mihaly Berkics, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Sujata Sriram, Nandita Chaudhary, Anjali Ghosh, Neharika Vohra, Dien Fakhri Iqbal, Jenny Kurman, Ram David Thein, Anna Laura Comunian, Son, Kyung Ae, Ivars Austers, Charles Harb, Joseph OT Odusanya, Zainal A Ahmed, Rosnah Ismail, Fons van deVijver, Colleen Ward, Andrew Mogaji, David Lackland Sam, Muhammad Jahan Zeb Khan, William E Cabanillas, Ly Sycip, Félix Neto, Rosa Cabecinhas, Paulo Xavier, Margareta Dinca, Nadezhda Lebedeva, Andrianna Viskochil, Oksana Ponomareva, Steven Michael Burgess, Luis Oceja, Silvia Campo, Kwang-Kuo Hwang, June Bernadette D’souza, Bilge Ataca, Adrian Furnham, J Rees Lewis
Publication date
2004/9
Journal
Journal of cross-cultural psychology
Volume
35
Issue
5
Pages
548-570
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
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 …
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