TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries
T2 - Its Relationship With the Five-Factor Model of Personality
AU - Leung, Kwok
AU - Lam, Ben C.P.
AU - Bond, Michael Harris
AU - Conway, Lucian Gideon
AU - Gornick, Laura Janelle
AU - Amponsah, Benjamin
AU - Boehnke, Klaus
AU - Dragolov, Georgi
AU - Burgess, Steven Michael
AU - Golestaneh, Maha
AU - Busch, Holger
AU - Hofer, Jan
AU - del Espinosa, Alejandra Carmen Dominguez
AU - Fardis, Makon
AU - Ismail, Rosnah
AU - Kurman, Jenny
AU - Lebedeva, Nadezhda
AU - Tatarko, Alexander N.
AU - Sam, David Lackland
AU - Teixeira, Maria Luisa Mendes
AU - Yamaguchi, Susumu
AU - Fukuzawa, Ai
AU - Zhang, Jianxin
AU - Zhou, Fan
N1 - Funding Information:
This project is supported by a research grant provided by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (CityU 1466/05H).
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - 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 positively to neuroticism. Other relationships between axiom and personality dimensions were similar to those reported in Study 1. The short forms of the axiom dimensions were generally reliable and correlated highly with the long forms. This research thus provides a stronger foundation for applying the construct of social axioms around the world.
AB - 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 positively to neuroticism. Other relationships between axiom and personality dimensions were similar to those reported in Study 1. The short forms of the axiom dimensions were generally reliable and correlated highly with the long forms. This research thus provides a stronger foundation for applying the construct of social axioms around the world.
KW - attitudes
KW - beliefs
KW - personality
KW - social cognition
KW - values
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862148645&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0022022111416361
DO - 10.1177/0022022111416361
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862148645
SN - 0022-0221
VL - 43
SP - 833
EP - 857
JO - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
JF - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
IS - 5
ER -