Comparing Japan and the United States on individualism/collectivism: A follow‐up review

Y Takano, E Osaka - Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
It has been long believed that the Japanese are typical collectivists whereas Americans are
typical individualists. To examine the validity of this common view, we formerly reviewed 15 …

An unsupported common view: Comparing Japan and the US on individualism/collectivism

Y Takano, E Osaka - Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
It has long been believed that the Japanese are more collectivistic than the Americans. To
assess the validity of this common view, we reviewed 15 empirical studies that compared …

Examination of the content of individualism/collectivism scales in cultural comparisons of the USA and Japan

K Noguchi - Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The definitions of individualism/collectivism and the content of scale items used to assess
them could explain the lack of cross‐cultural differences reported in some research …

The myth of individualism-collectivism: A critical review

M Voronov, JA Singer - The Journal of social psychology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The authors critically assess the dimension of individualism-collectivism (IC) and its various
uses in cross-cultural psychology. They argue that IC research is characterized largely by …

Variations in collectivism and individualism by ingroup and culture: Confirmatory factor analysis.

E Rhee, JS Uleman, HK Lee - Journal of Personality and Social …, 1996 - psycnet.apa.org
Five models of collectivism and individualism, which varied by ingroup and measurement
specification, were tested with confirmatory factor analyses. The sample consisted of 493 …

Are Japanese more collectivistic than Americans? Examining conformity in in-groups and the reference-group effect

Y Takano, S Sogon - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines whether the common view that Japanese are more collectivistic than
Americans is valid or not in three respects: First, the authors point out that those empirical …

Individualist-collectivist tendencies in a Turkish sample

M Göregenli - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
In this research, we aimed to find out to what extent social behaviors related to individualism-
collectivism are exhibited in the Turkish culture. The individualism-collectivism scale used in …

Rethinking individualism and collectivism: evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta-analyses.

D Oyserman, HM Coon, M Kemmelmeier - Psychological bulletin, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
Are Americans more individualistic and less collectivistic than members of other groups?
The authors summarize plausible psychological implications of individualism-collectivism …

Beyond ethnic differences: Contextualizing the influence of ethnicity on individualism and collectivism

P Wink - Journal of Social Issues, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between individualism and collectivism (I/C), ethnicity, and four other social
variables was examined using data from 453 American college students of Chinese …

Collectivism among the Japanese: A perspective from the self.

S Yamaguchi - 1994 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract links the study of I/C [individualism and collectivism] to the perspective of the
self/suggests 2 antecedents to individuals' collective tendency: psychological attachments …