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      Exploring Cultural Differences in the Extent to Which People Perceive and Desire Control

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      Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
      SAGE Publications

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          <p class="first" id="d1544340e91">In a seminal theory piece, Weisz and colleagues argued that control over one's environment was less attainable and desirable in Japan than in America. Subsequently, many scholars have extrapolated from this argument to claim broad-based cultural differences in control: that Western/individualist cultures perceive and desire more personal control over their environment than do Eastern/collectivist cultures. Yet surprisingly little empirical research has put this claim to the test. To test this notion, in Study 1 we examined perceived control over one's life in 38 nationally representative samples ( N = 48,951). In Study 2, we measured desire for control in community samples across 27 nations ( N = 4,726). Together, the studies show lower levels of perceived and desired control in Japan than in any other nation. Over and above the Japan effect, there was no evidence for differences in perceived or desired control between individualist and collectivist nations, or between holistic and nonholistic nations. </p>

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          Journal
          Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
          Pers Soc Psychol Bull
          SAGE Publications
          0146-1672
          1552-7433
          June 20 2018
          January 2019
          June 20 2018
          January 2019
          : 45
          : 1
          : 81-92
          Affiliations
          [1 ]The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
          [2 ]The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
          [3 ]University of Bath, Somerset, UK
          Article
          10.1177/0146167218780692
          29923785
          e26c26d6-a985-497b-83ad-1f35c49aeb66
          © 2019

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