PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES ACROSS REGIONS OF UNITED-STATES
PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES ACROSS REGIONS OF UNITED-STATES
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DOI：
10.1080/00224545.1973.9922648
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发表时间：
1973-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
KULHAVY, RW
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作者：
KRUG, SE;KULHAVY, RW
这项研究最初是为了确定美国不同地理区域的性格差异。在解释存在的差异时，在男性和女性中重复出现的三个主要组成部分似乎是最重要的。冒着过于简单化的风险，它们可能被简单地定义为创造性的生产力、意志坚强的独立性和人际隔离。第一次将东北部、西海岸和中西部地区与东南部、西南部和西部山区区分开来。第二次将中西部地区与西海岸和西南地区区分开来。第三种方法在描述西部山区和中西部地区之间的差异时似乎最有用。虽然这些调查结果中的许多与普遍的普遍态度大体一致，但它们表明，似乎没有一个单一的特征是该国某一特定地区所特有的。相反，出现了一种相当复杂的差异模式，这使得传统的刻板印象不充分，并为产生关于这些差异起源的假设提供了更丰富的基础。尽管本研究的目的不是对本文A节中概述的两种病因假设进行差异评估，但有趣的是，至少有两种功能的操作可以与区域人口统计学特征密切相关，这是第二个假设所要求的。因此，第一个功能可以被认为是确定与工业化程度有关的心理维度。第三个函数可能定义一个与人口密度有关的心理维度。然而，无论其来源如何，很明显，全国各地确实存在着可测量和可量化的显著个性差异。
This study was initially set up to ascertain what personality differences exist across geographic regions of the United States. Three main components, replicated across males and females, appear to be of greatest consequence in accounting for differences that exist. At the risk of oversimplifying, they might be briefly identified as creative productivity, tough-minded independence, and interpersonal isolation. The first distinguished Northeast, West Coast, and Midwest regions on the one hand from Southeast, Southwest, and Western Mountain regions on the other. The second distinguished Midwest from the West Coast and Southwest regions. The third appears most useful in describing differences between Western Mountain and Midwest regions.While many of these findings are generally congruent with commonly prevailing attitudes, they suggest that there is no single trait which appears to be distinctive of a particular region of the country. Instead, a rather complex pattern of differences emerges which makes traditional stereotypic conceptions inadequate and provides substantially richer ground for generating hypotheses as to the origin of these differences.Although this research was not designed to evaluate differentially the two etiological hypotheses outlined in Section A of this paper, it is interesting to note that the operation of at least two functions can be closely identified with regional demographic characteristics, as would be required by the second hypothesis. Thus, the first function can be thought to identify a psychological dimension which is related to degree of industrialization. The third function might define a psychological dimension which is related to population density.Whatever their origin, however, it is clear that practically significant personality differences do exist across the country in a measurable and quantifiable way.