Scenarios for the Measurement of Collectivism and Individualism

Author: Triandis, Harry C.; Chen, Xiao Ping; Chan, Darius K.-S.

Description: This article presents a method that uses scenarios for the measurement of horizontal (H) and vertical (V) individualism (I) and collectivism (C) across cultures, with university samples. The scenarios were developed by using focus groups, to cover a wide range of social situations often found among university students. Graduate student judges indicated which responses to each scenario represented HI, VI, HC, or VC judgments. When the judges did not agree on these judgments, the scenarios were eliminated. Scenarios that did not distinguish responses obtained from the Illinois and Hong Kong samples were also eliminated. This resulted in a set of 16 scenarios that provide efficient measurement of the constructs. The method converges with a method that uses attitude items.

Subject headings: Collectivism; Individualism; Scenarios; Students; Cross-cultural; Methods

Publication year: 1998

Journal or book title: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volume: 29

Issue: 2

Pages: 275-289

Find the full text: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022022198292001

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