Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Watson, David
• Clark, Lee A
• Tellegen, Auke
• Hogan, Robert

Titel

Cross-cultural convergence in the structure of mood: A Japanese replication and a comparison with U.S. findings

Ist Teil von

• Journal of personality and social psychology, 1984-07, Vol.47 (1), p.127-144

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

1984

Quelle

EBSCOhost APA PsycARTICLES

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Investigated Japanese affective structure and its relation to English-language mood in an idiographic/nomothetic analysis. 57 Japanese mood terms were derived from an initial pool through factor analysis of content sortings. 18 Japanese undergraduates provided daily self-ratings on these terms for 3 mo. Each Ss' data were subjected to an individual factor analysis. Two large factors--Positive and Negative Affect, the major dimensions of mood found in previous research among English-speaking US Ss--emerged in most of the solutions. Japanese/English bilinguals made content sortings of the Japanese terms and 60 English mood words. The resulting 15 bilingual content categories were used in a comparison of Japanese and US mood structures, and a remarkable convergence was revealed. Factor score distributions were also similar in the 2 languages. The major difference between the structures involved the content factor Sleepy, which did not have a significant negative loading on the Japanese Positive Affect factor. This appears to be consistent with known cultural differences in values and behavior. (43 ref)