Influence of Cultural Meaning System and Socioeconomic Change on Indecisiveness in Three Cultures  

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Li, Liman Man Wai ; Masuda, Takahiko ; Jiang, Feng

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 47 no. 4 (May 2016), page 508-524.
Topik: socioeconomic changes; cultural meaning systems; cultural difference; indecisiveness; dialecticism
Fulltext: 508-52_her.pdf (694.01KB)

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Psychologists have debated two external factors that influence human behaviors: current socioeconomic changes and historically shared cultural meaning systems. By conducting triangular comparisons among Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, and European Canadians, the current study examined whether these two factors differentially influence people’s indecisiveness. We found that (a) Hong Kong Chinese participants’ level of indecisiveness was highest, and there were no differences between the two other groups; (b) dialectical beliefs facilitated participants’ indecisiveness whereas optimism toward the future attenuated it across cultures and both factors explained cultural variations in indecisiveness; and (c) different from European Canadians’ optimism, optimism about the future promoted by perception of current rapid societal change made mainland Chinese more decisive. The importance of within-region analyses to disentangle varying factors in decision-making processes is discussed.

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