Social Axioms in Greece: Etic and Emic Dimensions and their Relationships with Locus of Control

Gari, Aikaterini; Panagiotopoulou, Penny; Mylonas, Kostas

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“…Although the Sports Sciences (Fine Arts) subsample unexpectedly matched the Medicine structure, the overall clustering of departmental groups can be clearly considered interesting and certainly useful with its further implementation in computing the factor structure for each of the two clusters namely the Literature and Economics cluster and the Mathematics, Theology, Medicine and Sports Science (Fine Arts) cluster of groups. Such clustering of countries has yielded interesting and theoretically sound results in previous research (Gari, Panagiotopoulou, & Mylonas, 2008). The overall method of trigonometric transformation of the multidimensional scaling coordinates has also been employed for clustering of variables, with exceptionally interesting and sound findings Gari & Mylonas, 2006).…”

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“…For two-factor solutions, the nine items of the scale resulted into a Tucker º matrix of 15 two-bytwo paired comparison matrices accompanied by a diagonal of six identity matrices. From this matrix it was easy to arrive into a "hit" matrix Gari, Panagiotopoulou, & Mylonas, 2008;Mylonas, Pavlopoulos, & Georgas, 2008) for which the diagonal contains zeros, as dissimilarities rather than similarities are coded, and on eitherside of the diagonal it contains instances of inequivalence for each of the 15 two-by-two paired comparison matrices (in this case a minimum of 0 holds -both factors identical in both solutions-and a maximum of 2 -no factors identical). Only 27% of the 30 (=2×15) maximum possible hits (equivalence instances) were present in the Tucker º "hit" matrix for these six samples, indicating possible structural differences to be further described.…”

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“…A separate note should be drawn on these transformations; they aim at simplifying the patterns present in the two-dimensional area, in order to constrain the plotted items upon a circular continuum by calculating the arctangent values for coordinate inputs (Gari, Panagiotopoulou, & Mylonas, 2008;Sidiropoulou, Mylonas & Argyropoulou, 2008;Veligekas, Mylonas & Zervas, 2007). Information on the linear departure of each item from the origin is not used, but the information on the clustering of these items upon the same or neigboring radius points on a circumference can be of great explanatory power, at least at an initial interpretation level.…”

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Statistical analysis techniques based on Cross-Cultural research methods: cross-cultural paradigms and intra-country comparisons

Mylonas¹

2020

Psychology

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Accumulated cross-cultural research has shown that its methods can also apply within countries, especially as more and more different immigrants or sojourners flow into host countries and the need to deal at least with acculturation issues is pressing. Cross-cultural methodology approximates research on intra-country issues, since comparinggroups with different characteristics within countries may also reflect different “cultures” represented by each of the differential groups. A question of bias elimination is raised when such comparisons areattempted either under a Cross-Cultural or an intra-country scope. Taking the van de Vijver and Leung and the Poortinga and van de Vijver theories on bias in terms of culture as a starting point, a triple-fold paradigm employing factor analysis and other techniques is presented on: (a) the application of simple congruence coefficients in estimating factor similarity –that is, basic factor equivalence testing– along with a proposed method of taking advantage of the Tucker coefficient matrix for a set of two or more factor structures, (b) the within-country application of multilevel covariance structure analysis and Procrustean rotations for a set of between groups and pooled-within correlation matrices, and (c) the reduction of “bias in terms of culture” by eliminating variance components through multivariate methods. By incorporating some of these methods in standard -within country- psychological research, we should be able to gain on theoretical andpsychometric grounds and we may finally question the degree of construct similarity among groups within a country, which cannot be necessarily taken for granted. These considerations are closely related to the use of multilevel analyses, as these stem from Cross-Cultural Psychology through most forms of intracountry and/or inter-country comparisons.

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2020

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“…Comparative findings within a country and between countries are critical in extending our understanding of worldviews and suicide across diverse cultural groups (see e.g. Gari, Panagiotopoulou, & Mylonas, 2009).…”

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Worldviews and Individual Vulnerability to Suicide: The Role of Social Axioms

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Research investigating the role of generalized beliefs about the world or worldviews is relatively scarce in the suicide literature. Two studies, using Hong Kong Chinese samples, examined how worldviews, as assessed by the Social Axioms Survey (SAS), were linked with individual vulnerability to suicide. In Study 1, we investigated the relationships of social axioms with various suicide indicators in cognitive, emotional and interpersonal domains, viz., suicidal ideation, negative self-esteem, psychache, burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness. Results from canonical correlation analysis showed that beliefs along the axiom dimensions of social cynicism, reward for application, and social complexity were linked to these suicide indicators. In Study 2, we tested the interplay of worldviews and personality traits in the prediction of suicidal thoughts. Hierarchical regression results demonstrated the predictive power of social axioms over and above that provided by the Big Five personality dimensions. Moreover, a significant interaction was observed between belief in reward for application and negative life events in predicting suicidal ideation, showing that reward for application buffered the effect of negative life events on suicidal ideation. Based on these results, we discussed the significance of worldviews as a consideration in suicide research and their implications for clinical assessment and intervention.

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“…Όπως έχει δείξει η έως τώρα έρευνα σε διαφορετικές χώρες η συγκεκριμένη αξιολογική σειρά των παραγόντων καθώς και το περιεχόμενό τους παρουσιάζουν διαφορές (Neto, 2006Safdar et al,2006. Από προηγούμενες έρευνες σε Έλληνες φοιτητές: (α) με τη χρήση του πρωτότυπου διαπολιτισμικού ερωτηματολογίου εντοπίστηκε η παραγοντική δομή των κοινωνικών αξιωμάτων όπως έχουν διατυπωθεί από τους αλλά με την εμφάνιση έκτου πολιτισμικά συγκεκριμένου (emic) παράγοντα, ο οποίος περιελάμβανε κοινωνικά αξιώματα του Κοινωνικού Κυνισμού π.χ., «οι ηλικιωμένοι είναι συνήθως πεισματάρηδες και προκατειλημμένοι», «οι νέοι είναι παρορμητικοί και αφερέγγυοι» και της Αμοιβής Προσπάθειας π.χ., «Κάθε πρόβλημα έχει μια λύ-ση», «Η αποτυχία είναι αρχή της επιτυχίας» ο παράγοντας χαρακτηρίζεται από απόψεις περί δίκαιου κόσμου και επιτυχίας (Gari, Panagiotopoulou, & Mylonas, 2009) και (β) με τη χρήση ερωτηματολογίου στο οποίο είχαν εισαχθεί και αξιώματα από έρευνα σε Έλληνες φοιτητές, εντοπίστηκε πέραν των πέντε διαπολιτισμικών διαστάσεων και μία έκτη που ονομάστηκε «Κυνισμός και Ανταγωνισμός» με κοινωνικά αξιώματα Κοινωνικού Κυνισμού π.χ., «οι ισχυροί εκμεταλλεύονται τους αδύνατους, Αμοιβής Προσπάθειας π.χ., «ο ανταγωνισμός φέρνει πρόοδο» και ενός ελληνικού, «οι εγωιστές καταλήγουν μόνοι». Η διάσταση μπορεί να θεωρηθεί παράγωγο του Κυνισμού με κεντρικό νόημα ότι σε ένα σκληρό και ανταγωνιστικό κόσμο το άτομο προκαλεί και εμπλέκεται στη σκληρότητα και στον ανταγωνισμό (Gari, Panagiotopoulou, & Mylonas, 2009).…”

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Κοινωνικά Αξιώματα Στην Ελλάδα: Ποιοτική Έρευνα

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2020

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Social axioms are generalized beliefs about oneself, the social and physical environment, or the spiritual world, and take the form of assertions about the relationship between two entities or concepts (Leung &Bond, 2002). The cross-cultural five factors structure: Social Cynicism, Reward for Application, Social Complexity, Fate Control and Religiosity, has been identified in Greece, while a sixth factor emerged in past studies. The present qualitative study aims it investigating the cultural specific social axioms. 362 students, young and older adults participated in 52 semi-structured interviews and 374 participated in 54 focus groups presenting their social axioms regarding the following topics: work, socio-economic crisis, family, religion, mental health, interpersonal and intergender relationships. According to the findings, the participants seemed deeply concerned with all the aspects of theongoing socio-economic crisis in relation to the unemployment, while family, interpersonal relationships and religion seemed to be critical in supporting Greeks during their everyday life and life planning.

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Social Axioms in Greece: Etic and Emic Dimensions and their Relationships with Locus of Control

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Statistical analysis techniques based on Cross-Cultural research methods: cross-cultural paradigms and intra-country comparisons

Statistical analysis techniques based on Cross-Cultural research methods: cross-cultural paradigms and intra-country comparisons

Worldviews and Individual Vulnerability to Suicide: The Role of Social Axioms

Κοινωνικά Αξιώματα Στην Ελλάδα: Ποιοτική Έρευνα

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