Authors
Kwok Leung, Ben CP Lam, Michael Harris Bond, Lucian Gideon Conway III, Laura Janelle Gornick, Benjamin Amponsah, Klaus Boehnke, Georgi Dragolov, Steven Michael Burgess, Maha Golestaneh, Holger Busch, Jan Hofer, Alejandra del Carmen Dominguez Espinosa, Makon Fardis, Rosnah Ismail, Jenny Kurman, Nadezhda Lebedeva, Alexander N Tatarko, David Lackland Sam, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira, Susumu Yamaguchi, Ai Fukuzawa, Jianxin Zhang, Fan Zhou
Publication date
2012/7
Journal
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume
43
Issue
5
Pages
833-857
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals’ general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five personality dimensions were found. Temporal change of social axioms at the culture level was examined and found to be moderate. In Study 2, additional new items were generated for social complexity and fate control, then assessed in Hong Kong and the United States. Reliability was further improved for both dimensions. Additionally, two subfactors of fate control were identified: fate determinism and fate alterability. Fate determinism, but not fate alterability, related …
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