Divorce Attitudes Around the World: Distinguishing the Impact of Culture on Evaluations and Attitude Structure  

Oleh:

Toth, Katalin ; Kemmelmeier, Markus

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cross-Cultural Research vol. 43 no. 03 (Aug. 2009), page 280-297.
Topik: divorce; attitudes; culture; individualism; collectivism
Fulltext: 280.pdf (130.9KB)

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This article examines the link between culture and divorce attitudes using country-level data of the International Social Survey Programme 1994. Outside of examining the favorability of attitudes, we distinguish different types of attitudes based on whether the consequences of marital dissolution on children were considered when evaluating the acceptability of divorce. Testing competing hypotheses derived from attitude research and crosscultural psychology, we demonstrate that (a) individualist societies exhibit more favorable divorce attitudes than collectivist societies but that (b) there is a curvilinear relationship between culture and type of divorce attitude, such that highly individualist and highly collectivist societies are similar with regard to the structure of prevailing divorce attitudes. The discussion focuses on the broader meanings of endorsing certain types of divorce attitudes in individualist and collectivist cultures.

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