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Cultural Differences in Individualism? Just Artifact.

G. Lawrence Zahn

University of California, Riverside

Previous research has provided discrepant findings with regard to the presence or absence of a cultural difference in strength of individualistic motivation among Mexican American and Anglo American children. To test the hypothesis of a cultural difference, and to explore the nature of different individualism measures, two individualism measures were administered to 733 Anglo American, Mexican American, and black children. Results indicated age but not cultural differences in strength of individualistic motivation, and that one measure of individualism, the Social Orientation Choice-Card, is confounded with competitiveness. That artifact remains the most plausible explanation of what was presumed to be a cultural difference.

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 2, 219-232 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/07399863830052007


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