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- Title
GENDER, SHYNESS, AND INDIVIDUALISM-COLLECTIVISM: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY.
- Authors
Aizawa, Yuki; Whatley, Mark A.
- Abstract
For the past two decades, many researchers have paid much attention to the diversity of cultures and suggested cultural syndromes may help explain cultural differences in social behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the construct of shyness in three different cultures. Sixty Japanese, 33 Chilean, and 53 American participants were asked to complete a measure of individualism-collectivism (Triandis, 1995) and shyness (Cheek & Buss, 1981). As hypothesized, the Japanese reported greater shyness than Chileans and Americans. Men and women in all the three cultures showed different attitudes and emotional expressions based on cultural differences between individualism and collectivism.
- Subjects
PSYCHOANALYSIS &; culture; INTERPERSONAL relations; INDIVIDUALISM; COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology); CULTURAL relations; BASHFULNESS; JAPANESE people; CHILEANS; AMERICANS
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2006, Vol 13, Issue 1/2, p7
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article