Cultural Value Orientation Scale

Niranjan, Suman; Gupta, Vishal; Goktan, Banu; Cheung, Y.P.; Günay, Gonca; Pareek, Ashish

doi:10.1037/t33366-000

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“…Such research could also attempt to study other aspects of cultural orientation, such as masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation, and indulgence [86,87,135,136], thus moving beyond the binary categorisation of culture that is often seen in the literature (i.e., individualism-collectivism; see [137] for a critique). In addition, rather than assuming that all individuals within each country conform to their cultural norm (e.g., all individuals in the USA are individualists), future studies could index the orientiation of each individual participant (e.g., with scales like the Cultural Value Orientation Scale [138]), thus allowing for intra-cultural variation in these factors. Finally, further research could aim to determine the relative contributions of cultural orientation, knowledge and other potentially relevant factors (e.g., openness to experience, contact with autistic people; see S5 File for prevalence rates across countries [68,127]) to autism-related stigma.…”

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Cross-cultural variation in experiences of acceptance, camouflaging and mental health difficulties in autism: A registered report

Keating,

Hickman,

Geelhand

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Recent findings suggest that stigma and camouflaging contribute to mental health difficulties for autistic individuals, however, this evidence is largely based on UK samples. While studies have shown cross-cultural differences in levels of autism-related stigma, it is unclear whether camouflaging and mental health difficulties vary across cultures. Hence, the current study had two aims: (1) to determine whether significant relationships between autism acceptance, camouflaging, and mental health difficulties replicate in a cross-cultural sample of autistic adults, and (2) to compare these variables across cultures. To fulfil these aims, 306 autistic adults from eight countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States) completed a series of online questionnaires. We found that external acceptance and personal acceptance were associated with lower levels of depression but not camouflaging or stress. Higher camouflaging was associated with elevated levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. Significant differences were found across countries in external acceptance, personal acceptance, depression, anxiety, and stress, even after controlling for relevant covariates. Levels of camouflaging also differed across countries however this effect became non-significant after controlling for the covariates. These findings have significant implications, identifying priority regions for anti-stigma interventions, and highlighting countries where greater support for mental health difficulties is needed.

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