On Rotation of a Johnson Hierarchical Tree Structure

Tzeng, Oliver C. S.; May, William

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“…The resultant concept factors were rotated to meaningful structure yielding a cross-cultural common configuration of adolescent self-conceptions. This is followed by a further analysis of the 30 cultures leading to a hierarchical clustering of the cultures in terms of their proximities in the resultant factor (viewpoint) space (Tzeng and May 1979). Then similar cultures in the viewpoint space were grouped together as an 'ideal culture'.…”

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A Cross-Cultural Perspective of Self-Related Conceptions in Adolescence

Tzeng¹,

Everett²

1985

International Journal of Psychology

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Adolescence has been described as a transitional phase of life often involving turbulence, stress and strain in five major problem areas. Osgocd el al.'s (1975) Atlas of Affective Meaning provided three basic measures of Evaluation, Potency and Activity for some 620 concepts that are representative of human life experiences in 30 language/culture communities around the world. The ratings of 30 concepts from the Atlas 'that represent the five major problem areas of adolescence were analyzed with the Three-Mode Multidimensional Scaling with Points-of-View Solution Technique (Tzeng and Landis 1978). The major results included the identification of cross-cultural common concept factors, 12 'idealized' cultural groups, and the factor structures of 12 'private' configurations. The concept structures that emerged from this study accurately recovered the problem areas of adolescence cited in the literature and also revealed unexpected homogeneities and differences in the cultures involved. Implications for government, social planning and education were discussed. An instrument suited for this study is the Semantic Differential(SD) developed by Osgood et al. (1957). Each S was asked to rate a number of concepts on 7-step bipolar scales. Three affective factors have been shown to be relatively stable across diverse concepts and cultures: Evaluation (E: good-bad), Potency (P: strongweak), and Activity (A; active-passive) (cf. Snider and Osgood 1969). This means that individuals, regardless of their differences in cultural and/or language backgrounds, tend to utilize the same E-P-A affective dimensions for differentiating diverse conceptions in human life experiences. A major extension of SD research in the cross-cultural arena was the

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A Cross-Cultural Perspective of Self-Related Conceptions in Adolescence

Tzeng¹,

Everett²

1985

International Journal of Psychology

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A Cross‐cultural Perspective of Self‐related Conceptions in Adolescence*

Tzeng

Everett

1985

Int J Psychol

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Adolescence has been described as a transitional phase of life often involving turbulence, stress and strain in five major problem areas. Osgood et al.'s (1975) Atlas of Affective Meaning provided three basic measures of Evaluation, Potency and Activity for some 620 concepts that are representative of human life experiences in 30 language/culture communities around the world. The ratings of 30 concepts from the Atlas that represent the five major problem areas of adolescence were analyzed with the Three-Mode Multidimensional Scaling with Points-of-View Solution Technique (Tzeng and Landis 1978). The major results included the identification of cross-cultural common concept factors, 12 'idealized' cultural groups, and the factor structures of 12 'private' configurations. The concept structures that emerged from this study accurately recovered the problem areas of adolescence cited in the literature and also revealed unexpected homogeneities and differences in the cultures involved. Implications for government, social planning and education were discussed.

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On Rotation of a Johnson Hierarchical Tree Structure

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A Cross-Cultural Perspective of Self-Related Conceptions in Adolescence

A Cross-Cultural Perspective of Self-Related Conceptions in Adolescence

A Cross‐cultural Perspective of Self‐related Conceptions in Adolescence*

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