Categories on the Locus of Control Scale and Cross-Cultural Comparisons in Denmark and the United States

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Schneider ◽  
Oscar A. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Cultural Comparisons

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Comparisons of the Cute and Related Concepts in Japan, the United States, and Israel

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402098873
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Nittono ◽  
Shiri Lieber-Milo ◽  
Joshua P. Dale
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older People ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Cultural Comparisons

An online survey was conducted to clarify the connotative meanings of the cute and the attitudes toward cuteness in three countries: Japan ( n = 1,000), the United States ( n = 718), and Israel ( n = 437). The results show a remarkable resemblance in respondents’ conceptions of the cute ( kawaii in Japanese and hamud in Hebrew) across countries. Except for slight cultural differences, the following common tendencies were found: (a) Cuteness is highly appreciated and believed to induce positive affective responses, (b) women tend to find things cute more frequently and strongly than men do, (c) animal babies are thought to be cuter than human babies, and (d) infants are found to be cuter when people get older, while older people generally show less positive attitudes toward cuteness. This study provides some evidence that the concept of cuteness and the feelings connected to its perception are universal.

scholarly journals Does Schooling Causally Impact Non-Cognitive Skills? Evidence from Elimination of Social Security Student Benefits

Economies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Bahram Sanginabadi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
College Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Causality Relationship ◽  
Student Benefits

A limited number of studies have investigated the impacts of education on non-cognitive skills, yet they offer mixed results. A few studies suggest no impact, but others report positive impacts of education on non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we apply the elimination of Social Security student benefits that took place in the United States in 1982 to study the impacts of education on non-cognitive skills, as measured by the Rotter Locus of Control Scale and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. We apply eligibility for aid due to the death of father to avoid endogeneity in our analysis. Our results suggest that non-cognitive skills improve during the college education years, but the causality relationship from college education to non-cognitive skills disappears to a high extent when the prior levels of non-cognitive skills are controlled for.

Dogmatism, Locus of Control and Creativity in Children Educated in the Soviet Union, the United States, and Israel

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Aviram ◽  
Roberta M. Milgram
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Soviet Union

Dogmatism, locus of control and creative thinking were studied in Israel in children aged 12 to 14 yr. and educated in the Soviet Union (N = 45), in the United States ( N = 44), and in Israel ( N = 48). Measures were the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale, the Tel-Aviv Locus of Control Scale and an adapted version of the Wallach and Kogan Creativity Battery. American and Israeli children were more open-minded, more internal in feelings of locus of control, and more creative in their thinking than Soviet children. Findings were explained in terms of differences in socialization within Soviet and Western society.

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