Pattern of social interaction in societies of the Asia-Pacific region.
The authors developed an 18-item Social Interaction Inventory that yielded a factorial structure based on the 3 domains of social interaction: interpersonal, personal, and extrapersonal. They administered the inventory to samples from 15 countries of the Asia-Pacific region (N = 146). The participants in the different cultural groups preferred to interact more within the interpersonal (in-group) domain as compared with the personal (individual) and extrapersonal (out-group) domains. The findings reflect a collective pattern, rather than an individualistic pattern, of social interaction in the societies of the Asia-Pacific region.
Dadkhah
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Department of Education, Kyushu University, Japan. asdad@peyam.net
Harizuka
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Mandal
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D000328:Adult; D001208:Asia; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male