Are virtues national, supranational, or universal?

J 2014

Are virtues national, supranational, or universal?

OUDENHOVEN, Jan Pieter van, Boele de RAAD, Marieke E TIMMERMAN, Françoise ASKEVIS-LEHERPEUX, Pawel BOSKI et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Are virtues national, supranational, or universal?

Authors

OUDENHOVEN, Jan Pieter van (528 Netherlands, guarantor), Boele de RAAD (528 Netherlands), Marieke E TIMMERMAN (528 Netherlands), Françoise ASKEVIS-LEHERPEUX (250 France), Pawel BOSKI (616 Poland), Carmen CARMONA (724 Spain), Rajneesh CHOUBISA (356 India), Alejandra del Carmen DOMINGUEZ (484 Mexico), Hege H BYE (578 Norway), Anastacia KURYLO (840 United States of America), Cornelia LAHMANN (528 Netherlands), Khairul MASTOR (458 Malaysia), Eva SELENKO (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ripley SMITH (840 United States of America), Linda TIP (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Michelle YIK (344 Hong Kong)

Edition

SpringerPlus, Germany, Springer, 2014, 2193-1801

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/14:00075490

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-223

UT WoS

000359038600002

Keywords in English

virtues; cross-cultural studies

Abstract

V originále

Many studies investigated cultural differences in values, most notably by Hofstede and Schwarz. Relatively few have focused on virtues, a related and important concept in contemporary social science. The present paper examines the similarities and differences between nations, or blocks of - culturally related - nations on the perceived importance of virtues. Adults (N=2809 students) from 14 countries were asked to freely mention which virtues they found important to practice in daily life, and next to rate a list of 15 virtues, which reflect the most frequently mentioned categories in The Netherlands, as found in a previous study. The 14 nations included the United States, Mexico, nine European and three Asian nations. For the free-listed virtues, we compared the top-ten lists of most frequently mentioned virtues across the nations. We used a correspondence analysis on the frequency table to assess the relationships between the virtues and nations. For the 15 virtues ratings, a MANOVA, and follow-up ANOVA were used to examine effects of nation, age, gender and religion. We found strong evidence for relationships between nations and blocks of culturally related nations and the importance attached to various virtues. There appear to be some country specific virtues, such as generosity in France, but also some relatively universal virtues, most notably honesty, respect, and kindness.

Citovat

OUDENHOVEN, Jan Pieter van, Boele de RAAD, Marieke E TIMMERMAN, Françoise ASKEVIS-LEHERPEUX, Pawel BOSKI, Carmen CARMONA, Rajneesh CHOUBISA, Alejandra del Carmen DOMINGUEZ, Hege H BYE, Anastacia KURYLO, Cornelia LAHMANN, Khairul MASTOR, Eva SELENKO, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Ripley SMITH, Linda TIP and Michelle YIK. Are virtues national, supranational, or universal? SpringerPlus. Germany: Springer, 2014, vol. 2, No 3, p. 223-234. ISSN 2193-1801. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-223.

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OUDENHOVEN, Jan Pieter van, Boele de RAAD, Marieke E TIMMERMAN, Fran$\backslash$c coise ASKEVIS-LEHERPEUX, Pawel BOSKI, Carmen CARMONA, Rajneesh CHOUBISA, Alejandra del Carmen DOMINGUEZ, Hege H BYE, Anastacia KURYLO, Cornelia LAHMANN, Khairul MASTOR, Eva SELENKO, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Ripley SMITH, Linda TIP and Michelle YIK. Are virtues national, supranational, or universal? \textit{SpringerPlus}. Germany: Springer, 2014, vol.~2, No~3, p.~223-234. ISSN~2193-1801. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-223.

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