Towards an operationalization of the fundamental dimensions of agency and communion: Trait content ratings in five countries considering valence and frequency of word occurrence
Towards an operationalization of the fundamental dimensions of agency and communion: Trait content ratings in five countries considering valence and frequency of word occurrence
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DOI：
10.1002/ejsp.575
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Wojciszke, Bogdan
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作者：
Abele, Andrea E.;Uchronski, Mirjam;Wojciszke, Bogdan
尽管在社会判断的两个基本维度的理论化和研究中有许多收敛，但操作化在不同的研究中有很大的不同，并且可能的混淆（效价，单词出现的频率）并不总是受到控制。本研究的目的是作为第一步，提供一个更标准化的操作性的特质词，这是明确不同的内容（机构和共融），但在不同国家的书面语言中的价格和频率的字出现的可比。我们创建了一个304个特质形容词的池，并在几次预测试中将这个池减少到69个特质词的列表。这些化合物在含量上明显不同，并且涵盖了很大的化合价范围。在主研究中，来自五个国家（比利时，德国，意大利，波兰和美国）的N = 548名参与者对69个特质词的能动性，共融性和效价进行了评级。各国的结果相当一致。特质形容词的中介性和交流性与公共性内容呈负相关，与中介性内容无显著相关;词频与内容性无显著相关。聚类分析表明，四类特质词。基于这些发现，我们提出了一套代理和公共特质的话，不不同的效价和词频。这些项目集可以作为跨语文标准化操作两个基本内容方面的第一步。版权所有（C）2008约翰威利父子有限公司
Despite many convergences in theorizing and research on the two fundamental dimensions of social judgment the operationalizations differ considerably across studies and possible confounds (valence, frequency of word occurrence) are not always controlled. The present study was meant as a first step towards a more standardized operationalization by providing trait words which are clearly distinct in content (agency and communion) but comparable in valence and frequency of word occurrence in written language across different countries. We created a pool of 304 trait adjectives and reduced this pool in several pretests to a list of 69 trait words. These were clearly different in content and covered a large range of valence. In the main study N = 548 participants from five countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland and USA) rated the 69 trait words on agency, communion and valence. The results were quite consistent across countries. The trait adjectives' agency ratings and communion ratings were negatively correlated with communal content, but not with agentic content; word frequency was barely related to the content ratings. Cluster analyses suggest four clusters of trait words. Based on these findings we propose sets of agentic and communal trait words which do not differ in valence and word frequency.. These item-sets can serve as a first step towards a standardized operationalization of the two fundamental content dimensions across languages. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.