title: The World at 7:00: Comparing the Experience of Situations Across 20 Countries.
abstract: The purpose of this research is to quantitatively compare everyday situational experience around the world. Local collaborators recruited 5,447 members of college communities in 20 countries, who provided data via a Web site in 14 languages. Using the 89 items of the Riverside Situational Q-sort (RSQ), participants described the situation they experienced the previous evening at 7:00 p.m. Correlations among the average situational profiles of each country ranged from r = .73 to r = .95; the typical situation was described as largely pleasant. Most similar were the United States/Canada; least similar were South Korea/Denmark. Japan had the most homogenous situational experience; South Korea, the least. The 15 RSQ items varying the most across countries described relatively negative aspects of situational experience; the 15 least varying items were more positive. Further analyses correlated RSQ items with national scores on six value dimensions, the Big Five traits, economic output, and population. Individualism, Neuroticism, Openness, and Gross Domestic Product yielded more significant correlations than expected by chance. Psychological research traditionally has paid more attention to the assessment of persons than of situations, a discrepancy that extends to cross-cultural psychology. The present study demonstrates how cultures vary in situational experience in psychologically meaningful ways.
authors: University of California, Riverside.
authors: Esther
authors: E
authors: Guillaume
authors: University of California, Riverside.
authors: Erica
authors: E
authors: Baranski
authors: University of California, Riverside.
authors: Elysia
authors: E
authors: Todd
authors: University of Queensland.
authors: Brock
authors: B
authors: Bastian
authors: Ural Federal University.
authors: Igor
authors: I
authors: Bronin
authors: Ural Federal University.
authors: Christina
authors: C
authors: Ivanova
authors: University of California, Berkeley.
authors: Joey T
authors: JT
authors: Cheng
authors: University of Cape Town.
authors: François S
authors: FS
authors: de Kock
authors: Tilburg University.
authors: Jaap J A
authors: JJ
authors: Denissen
authors: University of Barcelona.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Gallardo-Pujol
authors: Slovak Academy of Sciences.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Halama
authors: Chonnam National University.
authors: Gyuseog Q
authors: GQ
authors: Han
authors: Chonnam National University.
authors: Jaechang
authors: J
authors: Bae
authors: Chonnam National University.
authors: Jungsoon
authors: J
authors: Moon
authors: National University of Singapore.
authors: Ryan Y
authors: RY
authors: Hong
authors: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
authors: Martina
authors: M
authors: Hřebíčková
authors: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
authors: Sylvie
authors: S
authors: Graf
authors: Kazimierz Wielki University.
authors: Paweł
authors: P
authors: Izdebski
authors: University of Copenhagen.
authors: Lars
authors: L
authors: Lundmann
authors: Georg August University, Göttingen.
authors: Lars
authors: L
authors: Penke
authors: University of Milan.
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Perugini
authors: University of Milan.
authors: Giulio
authors: G
authors: Costantini
authors: Humboldt University, Berlin.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Rauthmann
authors: Humboldt University, Berlin.
authors: Matthias
authors: M
authors: Ziegler
authors: University of Tartu.
authors: Anu
authors: A
authors: Realo
authors: University of Tartu.
authors: Liisalotte
authors: L
authors: Elme
authors: Ritsumeikan University.
authors: Tatsuya
authors: T
authors: Sato
authors: Ritsumeikan University.
authors: Shizuka
authors: S
authors: Kawamoto
authors: Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
authors: Piotr
authors: P
authors: Szarota
authors: University of British Columbia.
authors: Jessica L
authors: JL
authors: Tracy
authors: University of Utrecht.
authors: Marcel A G
authors: MA
authors: van Aken
authors: China Europe International Business School.
authors: Yu
authors: Y
authors: Yang
authors: University of California, Riverside.
authors: David C
authors: DC
authors: Funder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia / Q000208:ethnology; D002170:Canada / Q000208:ethnology; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011779:Q-Sort / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000208:ethnology; D012919:Social Behavior; D013019:South Africa / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology; D055815:Young Adult