Abstract

SANG-AH PARK, Miriam; GOODWIN, Robin; GERGő HARSANYI, Szabolcs  and  KIM, Jung-Ae. Macro-Level Factors & their Influence on Family Perceptions in Two Cultures. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2011, vol.1, n.2, pp.274-297. ISSN 2007-4719.

Values, political beliefs, and family perceptions are sensitive to cultural change, which embraces change in the political, economic, and other societal-level spheres. This study investigated the impact of culture-level individualism and gender on family perceptions and the interrelations between the macro-level and individual level factors in South Korea and Hungary, two countries that have undergone recent social change. The study included data from 288 university students. Cultural and gender influences on Postmodernist values, democratic beliefs, political interest, political conservatism, perceptions of family relatedness and democratisation were found, and the overall model of interrelations between all the variables was tested using SEM (structural equation modelling) analysis.

Keywords : Family perceptions; Culture; Gender; Postmodernist values; Political beliefs.

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