Extreme response style as a cultural response to climato‐economic deprivation |
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| Authors: | Jia He Evert Van de Vliert Fons J R Van de Vijver |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Educational Quality and Evaluation, German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt, Germany;2. Culture Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;3. Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;4. Department of Psychology, North‐West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa;5. Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
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| Abstract: | We investigated the effects of climato‐economic harshness on extreme response style. Climato‐economic theorising postulates that a more threatening climate in poorer countries, in contrast to countries with a more comforting climate and richer countries with a more challenging climate, triggers intolerance of ambiguity and uncertainty avoidance inherent to conservatism, in‐group favouritism and autocracy. Scores of extreme response style at country level, a proxy of this cluster of cultural characteristics, were extracted from students' responses in the Programme for International Student Assessment to test the hypothesis. In a series of hierarchical regression analysis across 64 countries, cold demands, heat demands and GDP per capita showed a highly significant interaction effect on extreme response style, predicting in total 30.7% of the variance. Extreme response style was highest in poorer countries with higher climatic demands, and lowest in richer countries with lower climate demands. Implications are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Cold demands Heat demands Extremity Wealth Interaction Culture PISA |
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