Extreme response style as a cultural response to climato-economic deprivation.
Int J Psychol
; 52 Suppl 1: 67-71, 2017 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-27257035
ABSTRACT
We investigated the effects of climato-economic harshness on extreme response style. Climato-economic theorising postulates that a more threatening climate in poorer countries, in contrast to countries with a more comforting climate and richer countries with a more challenging climate, triggers intolerance of ambiguity and uncertainty avoidance inherent to conservatism, in-group favouritism and autocracy. Scores of extreme response style at country level, a proxy of this cluster of cultural characteristics, were extracted from students' responses in the Programme for International Student Assessment to test the hypothesis. In a series of hierarchical regression analysis across 64 countries, cold demands, heat demands and GDP per capita showed a highly significant interaction effect on extreme response style, predicting in total 30.7% of the variance. Extreme response style was highest in poorer countries with higher climatic demands, and lowest in richer countries with lower climate demands. Implications are discussed.
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Fatores Socioeconômicos
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Clima
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Ecossistema
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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2017
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Article