Komarraju Meera, Cokley Kevin O
Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2008 Oct;14(4):336-43. doi: 10.1037/1099-9809.14.4.336.
The current study examined ethnic differences in horizontal and vertical dimensions of individualism and collectivism among 96 African American and 149 European American college students. Participants completed the 32-item Singelis et al. (1995) Individualism/Collectivism Scale. Multivariate analyses of variance results yielded a main effect for ethnicity, with African Americans being significantly higher on horizontal individualism and European Americans being higher on horizontal collectivism and vertical individualism. A moderated multiple regression analysis indicated that ethnicity significantly moderated the relationship between individualism and collectivism. Individualism and collectivism were significantly and positively associated among African Americans, but not associated among European Americans. In addition, collectivism was related to grade point average for African Americans but not for European Americans. Contrary to the prevailing view of individualism-collectivism being unipolar, orthogonal dimensions, results provide support for individualism-collectivism to be considered as unipolar, related dimensions for African Americans.
当前研究调查了96名非裔美国大学生和149名欧裔美国大学生在个人主义与集体主义的横向和纵向维度上的种族差异。参与者完成了由辛盖利斯等人（1995年）编制的包含32个条目的个人主义/集体主义量表。多变量方差分析结果显示种族存在主效应，非裔美国人在横向个人主义方面显著更高，而欧裔美国人在横向集体主义和纵向个人主义方面更高。一项调节多元回归分析表明，种族显著调节了个人主义与集体主义之间的关系。个人主义与集体主义在非裔美国人中显著正相关，但在欧裔美国人中不相关。此外，集体主义与非裔美国人的平均绩点相关，但与欧裔美国人的平均绩点无关。与个人主义 - 集体主义是单极、正交维度的普遍观点相反，研究结果支持将个人主义 - 集体主义视为非裔美国人的单极、相关维度。
