Dialectical thinking: A cross-cultural study of Japanese, Chinese, and British students

Zhang, Bo; Galbraith, Niall; Yama, Hiroshi; Wang, Lei; Manktelow, Ken

doi:10.1080/20445911.2015.1025792

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“…The cross-cultural study conducted by Zhang, Galbraith, Yama, Wang, and Manktelow (2015) confirmed the above findings. They reported that the mean DSS scores of the Japanese and Chinese respondents were higher than those of the British participants.…”

Section: This Distinction Has Been Discussed In Terms Of the Contrastsupporting

confidence: 75%

“…The cultural differences in thinking between Japanese and Chinese have not been regarded as important nor significant. However, Zhang et al (2015) found that the mean DSS scores of their Japanese participants were significantly higher than those of their Chinese participants. This means that Japanese have a more dialectical self than Chinese.…”

Section: Applications Of the Low-/high-context Explanation To Culturamentioning

confidence: 82%

“…It is uncertain why, but there may be many complex reasons for this. Therefore, the result that the Japanese were more dialectical than the Chinese (Miyamoto et al, 2013;Suzuki et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2015) is not compatible with the individuality index if the dialecticism is related to collectivism.…”

Section: Applications Of the Low-/high-context Explanation To Culturamentioning

confidence: 96%

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Explanations for cultural differences in thinking: Easterners’ dialectical thinking and Westerners’ linear thinking

Yama

Zakaria

2019

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Since Easterners' naïve dialectical thinking, which is contrasted with Westerners' linear thinking, introduced, many cross-cultural studies on human thinking have been conducted, and explanations for the cultural differences have been proposed. First, after examining the robustness of these cultural differences, two existing explanations are discussed in this paper. The first is based on the distinction between Westerners' analytic cognition and Easterners' holistic cognition. This is related to the distinction between Westerners' independent self and Easterners' interdependent self. The second is based on the philosophical tradition of China's Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which is contrasted with that of Ancient Greece. Second, we propose a new explanation based on the distinction between Westerners' low-context culture and Easterners' high-context culture. Finally, we show that this distinction can be based on socioecological approaches, and it is expected to explain the cultural differences between the Chinese and Japanese.

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confidence: 96%

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Explanations for cultural differences in thinking: Easterners’ dialectical thinking and Westerners’ linear thinking

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Zakaria

2019

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…Furthermore, the reliability of the DSS was not very high among Chinese participants across four studies. Indeed the low reliability of this scale among Chinese was also observed in other recently published papers (Li et al, 2016;Zhang, Galbraith, Yama, Wang, & Manktelow, 2015). Because this scale is the only existing established scale for measuring dialectical beliefs, we did not have alternatives with more satisfactory internal reliability.…”

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The Relationship Between Dialectical Beliefs and Proenvironmental Behaviors

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et al. 2018

Environment and Behavior

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Dialectical beliefs emphasize constant change, tolerance of contradiction, and holistic perception. This research examined the relationship between dialectical beliefs and proenvironmental behaviors. Study 1a showed that stronger dialectical beliefs were associated with fewer proenvironmental behaviors among Chinese participants; this result was replicated in Study 1b. To examine the negative relationship between dialectical beliefs and proenvironmental behaviors across cultures, Study 2 recruited both native Chinese and European Americans and replicated the results conceptually by measuring proenvironmental behaviors in a hypothetical shopping scenario. Study 3 provided further generally supportive evidence by considering the influence of both dialectical beliefs and interdependent self-construal on proenvironmental behaviors between native Chinese and European Canadians. Finally, a meta-analysis of the obtained results revealed a weak but significant negative association between dialectical beliefs and proenvironmental behaviors. Theoretical implications for cross-cultural environmental research and practical implications for proenvironmental campaigns were discussed.

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“…It has been shown that agreement with opposing statements would statistically result in a negative wording factor (Schmitt & Stuits, 1989). Eastern Asians have been found to be higher than Americans and British in dialectical thinking (Peng & Nisbett, 1999;Zhang et al, 2015), which may explain why the factor structure of the BFI-2 was more evident in the two English-speaking samples but distorted in the Japanese sample (in the current study) and Chinese samples (in . However, previous studies on dialectical thinking primarily focused on comparisons between eastern and western countries and did not compare among different western countries.…”

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The road less traveled: A cross-cultural study of the negative wording factor in multidimensional scales

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Negatively worded items (NWIs) have been found to distort the hypothesized one-factor structure of many unidimensional scales and an additional negative wording factor is needed to achieve adequate model fit. However, little is known about impact, dimensionality, and correlates of the negative wording factor for multidimensional scales. Using responses to the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) administered to nationally representative samples of Germany, Spain, France, Japan, Poland, America, and England, the present study reported on a comprehensive cross-cultural examination of the impact, dimensionality, and external correlates of negative wording factors. We further investigated whether modeling a negative wording factor affects the factor structure and criterion-related validity. It was found that NWIs blurred the factor structure of the BFI-2 in non-English-speaking countries such that factors like agreeableness was not recovered, thus rejecting configural invariance. The results also strongly supported the idea that there was a general negative wording factor across subscales of the BFI-2 and this factor was consistently related to age, gender, educational attainment and life satisfaction across countries. Moreover, modeling a negative wording factor improved the factor structure of the BFI-2 and scalar invariance was achieved. Implications of these findings were discussed.

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Dialectical thinking: A cross-cultural study of Japanese, Chinese, and British students

Cited by 19 publications

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Explanations for cultural differences in thinking: Easterners’ dialectical thinking and Westerners’ linear thinking

Explanations for cultural differences in thinking: Easterners’ dialectical thinking and Westerners’ linear thinking

The Relationship Between Dialectical Beliefs and Proenvironmental Behaviors

The road less traveled: A cross-cultural study of the negative wording factor in multidimensional scales

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