Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA.
Aggress Behav. 2010 May-Jun;36(3):187-94. doi: 10.1002/ab.20341.
This study examined the relations between cultural values (i.e., individualism and collectivism) and aggression among 460 (234 girls) Chinese adolescents. Conflict level and social status insecurity were examined as potential explaining mechanisms for these relations. The results showed that adolescents' endorsement of collectivism was negatively related to their use of overt and relational aggression as reported by teachers and peers, whereas positive associations were found between the endorsement of individualism and adolescent aggression. Adolescents' conflict level and social status insecurity accounted for a significant part of these associations. Findings of this study demonstrate the importance of examining intracultural variations of cultural values in relation to adolescent aggression as well as the process variables in explaining the relations.
本研究考察了文化价值观（即个人主义和集体主义）与 460 名（234 名女孩）中国青少年之间的关系。冲突水平和社会地位不安全感被视为这些关系的潜在解释机制。结果表明，青少年对集体主义的认可与教师和同伴报告的他们使用公开和关系攻击呈负相关，而对个人主义的认可与青少年攻击呈正相关。青少年的冲突水平和社会地位不安全感解释了这些关联的重要部分。本研究的结果表明，在解释这些关系时，考察文化价值观的文化内差异以及过程变量对于青少年攻击行为的重要性。
