Kuo-Shu Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 126983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kuo-Shu Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kuo-Shu |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Two Decades of Change in Cultural Values and Economic Development in Eight East Asian and Pacific Island Nations
In a 1982 publication, Ng et al. surveyed the cultural values of select East Asian and Pacific Island nations. In 2002, this study repeated their work, using the same sampling frame, questionnaire, and collaborators, where possible. The authors also reclassified the 1982 and 2002 survey results using Schwartz's cultural-level value dimensions. Submission versus Dionysian values that differentiated the nations in 1982 continued to do so in 2002. F…
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
Indigenous and cultural psychology
Surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with focus on Asia. This work clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), and models integrative methods of study. It aims to dispel typical misconceptions about the field and its goals.
An External Orientation to the Study of Causal Beliefs
Characteristic differences between Chinese and Western cultures are argued to have meaningful implications for attributional belief research and its extension into new cultural settings. This study examined attributional beliefs within and across samples from Taiwan and the United States. To meet unique demands inherent in Chinese culture, an externally oriented perspective was introduced. Accordingly, a new instrument for the assessment of attri…
Exploring implicit personality theories with indigenous or imported constructs
This study is concerned with the relation between indigenous and imported constructs of personality perception. A pool of Chinese personality descriptors was used by Chinese Ss to rate a variety of target persons. These same Ss then rated the same target persons using the (translated) personality descriptions first isolated by Tupes and Christal (1961) from Americans. Five factors of personality perception were then derived from both the emic Chi…
International Preferences in Selecting Mates
This study sought to identify the effects of culture and sex on mate preferences using samples drawn world-wide. Thirty-seven samples were obtained from 33 countries located on six continents and five islands (N = 9,474). Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed strong effects of both culture and sex, moderated by specific mate characteristics. Chastity proved to be the mate characteristic on which cultures varied the most. The preference order…
Ethnic Affirmation Versus Cross-Cultural Accommodation
Chinese bilinguals from Hong Kong responded to three different question-naires in their first or second language of Chinese or English. On some questionnaire items their answers to the English version differed from those to the Chinese version in a more "Western" direction (cross-cultural accommodation); for others, in a more Chinese direction (ethnic affirmation). These outcomes were unaffected by the respondents' level of identification with tr…
Social Orientation and Individual Modernity among Chinese Students in Taiwan
A series of studies has already been published in Chinese on the relationship between social orientation and individual modernity among Chinese students in Taiwan. This paper first reviews these studies briefly and then reports another piece of research in the series, using 92 male and female students at the National Taiwan University. Forty-six high and 46 low scorers on individual modernity were administered the Rorschach Test. More modernized …
Problem Behavior in Chinese Adolescents in Taiwan
This study was primarily designed to provide an empirical basis for a better structural definition of problem behavior in Chinese adolescents. Anonymous self-ratings of 130 problem behaviors were obtained for 2432 male and 2723 female students drawn from 14 junior high schools in the Taipei area. In analyzing the data, the 130 behaviors were first classified into 16 categories through content analysis by two personality psychologists. Category sc…
Ethnic Affirmation by Chinese Bilinguals
What is the effect on the response of bilinguals when they are presented with a questionnaire in their first or their second languages? To examine this question 121 university students completed a survey on their identification with Chinese or Western practices. The questionnaire was written in Chinese or English and administered in small groups by one of four investigators-two Chinese, two Western. Results showed higher levels of Chinese identif…
Locus of Control and Chinese College Students
The cross-cultural feasibility of the internality-externality (I-E) construct was examined by studying 517 male and female Chinese college students in Taiwan. Levenson's IPC (Internality, Powerful Others, and Chance) Scales were used to correlate various factors concerning the background, performance, and expectancy areas. Results indicated that: (1) compared to females, Chinese males felt they had more control over their lives on the general int…
The effects of anxiety and threat on the learning of balanced and unbalanced social structures
It was predicted that balance (a task variable) interacted with anxiety (a personality trait) and threat (a situational factor) in determining the rate at which a structure was learned. This general prediction was confirmed by the following findings: (a) The balanced structure was learned more rapidly than the unbalanced one among high-anxious subjects while the two structures were learned at the same rate among low-anxious subjects, (b) Under no…
Cognitive Dissonance and Recall of Interrupted and Completed Tasks
The dissonance view of interruption was the basis of a prediction that volition for task commitment and expectation of task completion would affect differential recall of interrupted and completed tasks. 140 university students were randomly assigned to 4 treatment combinations of the 2 independent variables and individually asked to perform 20 paper-and-pencil tasks, half of which were interrupted. It was found that volition and expectation were…
International Preferences in Selecting Mates
This study sought to identify the effects of culture and sex on mate preferences using samples drawn world-wide. Thirty-seven samples were obtained from 33 countries located on six continents and five islands (N = 9,474). Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed strong effects of both culture and sex, moderated by specific mate characteristics. Chastity proved to be the mate characteristic on which cultures varied the most. The preference order…
Social Orientation and Individual Modernity among Chinese Students in Taiwan
A series of studies has already been published in Chinese on the relationship between social orientation and individual modernity among Chinese students in Taiwan. This paper first reviews these studies briefly and then reports another piece of research in the series, using 92 male and female students at the National Taiwan University. Forty-six high and 46 low scorers on individual modernity were administered the Rorschach Test. More modernized …
Ethnic Affirmation Versus Cross-Cultural Accommodation
Chinese bilinguals from Hong Kong responded to three different question-naires in their first or second language of Chinese or English. On some questionnaire items their answers to the English version differed from those to the Chinese version in a more "Western" direction (cross-cultural accommodation); for others, in a more Chinese direction (ethnic affirmation). These outcomes were unaffected by the respondents' level of identification with tr…
Ethnic Affirmation by Chinese Bilinguals
What is the effect on the response of bilinguals when they are presented with a questionnaire in their first or their second languages? To examine this question 121 university students completed a survey on their identification with Chinese or Western practices. The questionnaire was written in Chinese or English and administered in small groups by one of four investigators-two Chinese, two Western. Results showed higher levels of Chinese identif…
Exploring implicit personality theories with indigenous or imported constructs
This study is concerned with the relation between indigenous and imported constructs of personality perception. A pool of Chinese personality descriptors was used by Chinese Ss to rate a variety of target persons. These same Ss then rated the same target persons using the (translated) personality descriptions first isolated by Tupes and Christal (1961) from Americans. Five factors of personality perception were then derived from both the emic Chi…
Locus of Control and Chinese College Students
The cross-cultural feasibility of the internality-externality (I-E) construct was examined by studying 517 male and female Chinese college students in Taiwan. Levenson's IPC (Internality, Powerful Others, and Chance) Scales were used to correlate various factors concerning the background, performance, and expectancy areas. Results indicated that: (1) compared to females, Chinese males felt they had more control over their lives on the general int…
Two Decades of Change in Cultural Values and Economic Development in Eight East Asian and Pacific Island Nations
In a 1982 publication, Ng et al. surveyed the cultural values of select East Asian and Pacific Island nations. In 2002, this study repeated their work, using the same sampling frame, questionnaire, and collaborators, where possible. The authors also reclassified the 1982 and 2002 survey results using Schwartz's cultural-level value dimensions. Submission versus Dionysian values that differentiated the nations in 1982 continued to do so in 2002. F…
An External Orientation to the Study of Causal Beliefs
Characteristic differences between Chinese and Western cultures are argued to have meaningful implications for attributional belief research and its extension into new cultural settings. This study examined attributional beliefs within and across samples from Taiwan and the United States. To meet unique demands inherent in Chinese culture, an externally oriented perspective was introduced. Accordingly, a new instrument for the assessment of attri…
The effects of anxiety and threat on the learning of balanced and unbalanced social structures
It was predicted that balance (a task variable) interacted with anxiety (a personality trait) and threat (a situational factor) in determining the rate at which a structure was learned. This general prediction was confirmed by the following findings: (a) The balanced structure was learned more rapidly than the unbalanced one among high-anxious subjects while the two structures were learned at the same rate among low-anxious subjects, (b) Under no…
Cognitive Dissonance and Recall of Interrupted and Completed Tasks
The dissonance view of interruption was the basis of a prediction that volition for task commitment and expectation of task completion would affect differential recall of interrupted and completed tasks. 140 university students were randomly assigned to 4 treatment combinations of the 2 independent variables and individually asked to perform 20 paper-and-pencil tasks, half of which were interrupted. It was found that volition and expectation were…
The effects of anxiety and threat on the learning of balanced and unbalanced social structures
It was predicted that balance (a task variable) interacted with anxiety (a personality trait) and threat (a situational factor) in determining the rate at which a structure was learned. This general prediction was confirmed by the following findings: (a) The balanced structure was learned more rapidly than the unbalanced one among high-anxious subjects while the two structures were learned at the same rate among low-anxious subjects, (b) Under no…
Locus of Control and Chinese College Students
The cross-cultural feasibility of the internality-externality (I-E) construct was examined by studying 517 male and female Chinese college students in Taiwan. Levenson's IPC (Internality, Powerful Others, and Chance) Scales were used to correlate various factors concerning the background, performance, and expectancy areas. Results indicated that: (1) compared to females, Chinese males felt they had more control over their lives on the general int…
Ethnic Affirmation by Chinese Bilinguals
What is the effect on the response of bilinguals when they are presented with a questionnaire in their first or their second languages? To examine this question 121 university students completed a survey on their identification with Chinese or Western practices. The questionnaire was written in Chinese or English and administered in small groups by one of four investigators-two Chinese, two Western. Results showed higher levels of Chinese identif…
Social Orientation and Individual Modernity among Chinese Students in Taiwan
A series of studies has already been published in Chinese on the relationship between social orientation and individual modernity among Chinese students in Taiwan. This paper first reviews these studies briefly and then reports another piece of research in the series, using 92 male and female students at the National Taiwan University. Forty-six high and 46 low scorers on individual modernity were administered the Rorschach Test. More modernized …
Problem Behavior in Chinese Adolescents in Taiwan
This study was primarily designed to provide an empirical basis for a better structural definition of problem behavior in Chinese adolescents. Anonymous self-ratings of 130 problem behaviors were obtained for 2432 male and 2723 female students drawn from 14 junior high schools in the Taipei area. In analyzing the data, the 130 behaviors were first classified into 16 categories through content analysis by two personality psychologists. Category sc…
Ethnic Affirmation Versus Cross-Cultural Accommodation
Chinese bilinguals from Hong Kong responded to three different question-naires in their first or second language of Chinese or English. On some questionnaire items their answers to the English version differed from those to the Chinese version in a more "Western" direction (cross-cultural accommodation); for others, in a more Chinese direction (ethnic affirmation). These outcomes were unaffected by the respondents' level of identification with tr…
Exploring implicit personality theories with indigenous or imported constructs
This study is concerned with the relation between indigenous and imported constructs of personality perception. A pool of Chinese personality descriptors was used by Chinese Ss to rate a variety of target persons. These same Ss then rated the same target persons using the (translated) personality descriptions first isolated by Tupes and Christal (1961) from Americans. Five factors of personality perception were then derived from both the emic Chi…
International Preferences in Selecting Mates
This study sought to identify the effects of culture and sex on mate preferences using samples drawn world-wide. Thirty-seven samples were obtained from 33 countries located on six continents and five islands (N = 9,474). Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed strong effects of both culture and sex, moderated by specific mate characteristics. Chastity proved to be the mate characteristic on which cultures varied the most. The preference order…
An External Orientation to the Study of Causal Beliefs
Characteristic differences between Chinese and Western cultures are argued to have meaningful implications for attributional belief research and its extension into new cultural settings. This study examined attributional beliefs within and across samples from Taiwan and the United States. To meet unique demands inherent in Chinese culture, an externally oriented perspective was introduced. Accordingly, a new instrument for the assessment of attri…
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
Indigenous and cultural psychology
Surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with focus on Asia. This work clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), and models integrative methods of study. It aims to dispel typical misconceptions about the field and its goals.
Two Decades of Change in Cultural Values and Economic Development in Eight East Asian and Pacific Island Nations
In a 1982 publication, Ng et al. surveyed the cultural values of select East Asian and Pacific Island nations. In 2002, this study repeated their work, using the same sampling frame, questionnaire, and collaborators, where possible. The authors also reclassified the 1982 and 2002 survey results using Schwartz's cultural-level value dimensions. Submission versus Dionysian values that differentiated the nations in 1982 continued to do so in 2002. F…
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