De?ning relationships: Comparing Canadians, Chinese and Indians  

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Han, Z. Li ; Bhatt, Gira ; Zhi, Zhang ; Pahal, Jasrit ; Yanping, Cui

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Asian Journal of Social Psychology vol. 9 no. 3 (Dec. 2006), page 242–248.
Topik: cultural psychology; de?ne relationships; individualism-collectivism; qualitative-quantitative approach
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To examine whether cultural differences exist in de?ning family, friend, relative, colleague and neighbour, nonstudent samples were drawn from Canada, China and India. The data generated several unexpected ?ndings. (i) The means of the relationship de?nitions between the Chinese and Canadians were not signi?cantly different. The means between the Chinese and Indians were signi?cantly different. The means between the Canadians and Indians were signi?cantly different. (ii) Females de?ned their relationships more interdependently than males in the Indian and Canadian samples but not in the Chinese sample. (iii) De?nitions were target speci?c and the order of closeness differed from group to group. (iv) In the Indian and Chinese samples, participants’ age was negatively correlated with closeness in de?ning friends, indicating that a person’s perceived closeness with friends changes over the life span. Results of past research using student samples need to be interpreted with caution.

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