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Autor*innen: He, Jia; Vliert, Evert van de; Vijver, Fons J. R. van de
Titel: Extreme response style as a cultural response to climato-economic deprivation
In: International Journal of Psychology, 52 (2017) S1, S. 67-71
DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12287
Dokumenttyp: 3a. Beiträge in begutachteten Zeitschriften; Aufsatz (keine besondere Kategorie)
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter: Klima; Wirkung; PISA <Programme for International Student Assessment>; Jugendlicher; Fragebogenerhebung; Befragung; Antwort; Meinung; Wohlstand; Armut; Kultureinfluss; Einstellung <Psy>; Internationaler Vergleich; Empirische Untersuchung; Regressionsanalyse; OECD-Länder; Welt
Abstract: We investigated the effects of climato-economic harshness on extreme response style. Climato-economic theorising postulates that a more threatening climate in poorer countries, in contrast to countries with a more comforting climate and richer countries with a more challenging climate, triggers intolerance of ambiguity and uncertainty avoidance inherent to conservatism, in-group favouritism and autocracy. Scores of extreme response style at country level, a proxy of this cluster of cultural characteristics, were extracted from students' responses in the Programme for International Student Assessment to test the hypothesis. In a series of hierarchical regression analysis across 64 countries, cold demands, heat demands and GDP per capita showed a highly significant interaction effect on extreme response style, predicting in total 30.7% of the variance. Extreme response style was highest in poorer countries with higher climatic demands, and lowest in richer countries with lower climate demands. Implications are discussed. (DIPF/Orig.)
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