PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Extraversion And Introversion, Acculturation, Nomothetic
Document Summary
Environmental influences on personality: cross cultural differences historic changes. We need variability to see whether cross-cultural effects personality. Nomothetic approach- accept the characteristics of a culture and look at its effect on personality. Individualism (both gdp and literacy rates are related to individualism. Gdp- how much a country is a market economy, a reflection of wealth. Japan was one of the first collectivistic country that was being compared to the u. s. Correlations of individualism with other characteristics of nations. Wealth is highly correlated individualism (because as wealth increases, changes in lifestyle occurs and people are better education thus there is a change in views. In individualism there is very low correlation with corruption, because individualistic countries are based on laws. Quality of life is better, more products are imported and along with that the views of the country that you imported from also comes into the country. Extraversion is the strongest correlation to individualism.
