The present study investigates academic stress in two different cultures, the Iranian as a collectivist culture, and the Swedish as an individualist culture. A total of 616 university students (312 Iranian and 304 Swedish) participated in the study. The results show that Swedish students experience more academic stress than Iranian students. Academic stress was found to be related to difficulti...

Because humans need both autonomy and interdependence, persons with either an extreme collectivist orientation (allocentrics) or extreme individualist values (idiocentrics) may be at risk for possession of some features of psychopathology. Is an extreme personality style a risk factor primarily when it conflicts with the values of the surrounding society? Individualism-collectivism scenarios an...

Barradas, G. T. 2017. A Cross-Cultural Approach to Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Reactions to Music. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 137. 87 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9818-4. Music plays a crucial role in everyday life by enabling listeners to seek individual emotional experiences. To...

This study examined the extent to which collectivist attitudes predict preference for the basic models of social relations. According to Fiske (1991), all social relations can be reduced to four basic forms – communal sharing (CS), authority ranking (AR), equality matching (EM), and market pricing (MP) – that guide people’s social initiatives and help them to understand and respond appropriatel...

Prevailing beliefs suggest that Eastern cultures hold older adults in higher esteem than Western cultures do, due to stronger collectivist traditions of filial piety. However, in modern, industrialized societies, the strain presented by dramatic rises in population aging potentially threatens traditional cultural expectations. Addressing these competing hypotheses, a literature search located 3...

Serious long-term poverty in the United States is more likely to burden those who come from non-Western, collectivist cultures that socialize people modify behavior accordance with demands made by outside group. People these cultural backgrounds conform less easily individualist, inner-directed, and enterprising culture of States.