Psychological aspects of social axioms: understanding global belief systems

While value-based frameworks have offered revealing insights about culture, other conceptual tools need to be explored and deployed for a comprehensive understanding of both culture and individuals and how culture shapes individual processes and outcomes. To achieve this end, the authors and editors of Advances in Research on Social Axioms propose the construct of social axioms to augment values in interpreting culture and the behavior of individuals in their cultural contexts. Social axioms are defined as generalized beliefs about oneself, other people, the social environment, or the spiritual and physical world, and are central to a person’s belief system. Their function is to enhance the survival and functioning of the person in his/her social and physical environment. Systematic presentation of the current research inspired by the social axioms framework INDICE: Introduction to the social axioms framework.- Structural evidence and differential item functioning in the social axioms survey.- Social axioms among Malay, Chinese, and Kadazandusun psychology students in Sabah, Malaysia.- Exploring ethnic and location differences in social axioms in the USA.- The psychological mileage of social axioms in Chinese culture.- Cynicism in love and in politics.- Social axioms in Greece in relation to behavioral strategies.- The role of social axioms as antecedents of behavioral intentions within thetheory of planned behavior: Applications in Indonesia.- Social axioms in Italian culture.- A cross-cultural examination of coping strategies and social beliefs among Christians and Muslims.- Social axioms and organizational behavior.- Linking social axioms with behavioral indicators and personality in a Romanian population.- Societal transmission and normative effects of social axioms in Spanish culture.- Social axioms and individualistic-collectivist orientations in Indian college students.- Are parents decisive? The inter-generational transmission of social axioms.- Social axioms and epistemological beliefs of Filipino students.- Social axioms, self monitoring, and behavior during job interview among Ghanaian students.- Values and social axioms in Estonia and Latvia:do they change?- The hidden content of social axioms: life experiences behindaxioms in post-socialist country.- A future for research on social axioms.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-09809-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés