Cross-cultural assessment and comparisons of risk tolerance across domains

Abstract Risk attitudes are known to play an important role in influencing one’s behavior under conditions of uncertainty. To date, cultural influences on risk - beyond the effects they have perceived not been well understood. Having a cross-culturally invariant measure is prerequisite for carrying out more depth explorations this area. The current study applied domain-specific framework and focused Chinese US contexts. Using novel network analysis techniques, we explored patterns community samples subsequently developed version Multi-Domain Tolerance scale (MDRT-EC) that had similar applicability both samples. MDRT-EC demonstrated excellent psychometric characteristics achieved strong measurement invariance across associations between domain scales criterion were also two samples, further indicating MDRT-EC. Finally, used explore differences domains their predictive relations with range lifestyle behaviors.