A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Intercorrelations Among Eight Psychological Constructs in Japan and the United States

摘要

This presentation examines the pattern of relatedness and unrelatedness among eight psychological constructs in four demographic groups: Japanese males, Japanese females, U.S. males, and U.S. females. The eight constructs include: self-esteem, anxiety, depression, understanding, warmth, altruism, creativity, and intellectuality. Multidimensional scaling is used to visualize the relationships among the constructs. A similar pattern was found across all four groups. Intellectuality and creativity are very highly related (0.89