Cultural Differences in Attitudes Toward Action and Inaction: The Role of Dialecticism
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Ethan Zell, Assistant Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The current research examined whether nations differ in their attitudes toward action and inaction. It was anticipated that members of dialectical East Asian societies would show a positive association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. However, members of non-dialectical European-American societies were expected to show a negative association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. Young adults in 19 nations completed measures of dialectical thinking and attitudes toward action/inaction. Results from multi-level modeling showed, as predicted, that people from high dialecticism nations reported a more positive association in their attitudes toward action and inaction than people from low dialecticism nations. Furthermore, these findings remained after controlling for cultural differences in individualism-collectivism, neuroticism, gross-domestic product, and response style. Discussion highlights the implications of these findings for action/inaction goals, dialecticism, and culture.
Cultural Differences in Attitudes Toward Action and Inaction: The Role of Dialecticism
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(5), 521-528
- Language: English
- Date: 2013
- Keywords
- action research, attitudes, attitudinal ambivalence, culture and cognition, culture/ethnicity