Personal Choice: A Blessing or a Burden, or Both? A Cross-cultural Investigation on Need for Closure Effects in two Western and two East-Asian societies

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: ROETS, Arne, SOETENS, Barbara, AU, Evelyn W. M., GUAN, Yanjun
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• الموضوعات: Choice; Cross-cultural; Dialectical thinking; Individual differences; Need for closure; Chinese; Americans; Europeans; Singapore; Asian Studies; Multicultural Psychology; Personality and Social Contexts; Race and Ethnicity
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1527

The present study investigates the role of dispositional need for closure (NFC) in how individuals within a particular culture perceive and appreciate choice. Data sets from the US (283 adults), Europe (263 adults and 427 students), China (218 adults and 309 students) and Singapore (258 students) we...