Study Suh (1994): study ZZ East-West pairs 1989
- Public:
- College students, Korea, China, and USA, 198?
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 217
- Non Response:
- Assessment:
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Questionnaire: paper
Questionnaire completed in class
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Social desirability of positive emotional traits
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- Mean = China: 5.70, S-Korea: 5.87, USA: 6.03
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Ss were asked to rate how desirable or undesirable it is express each personality characteristics in an average situation;
a affectionate
b content
c friendly
d loving
e joyful
f pleased
Each trait was rated on a 7 point scale;
1 extremely undesirable ...7 extremely desirable
The order of the judgements was counterbalanced
The social desirability of positive emotional traits was constructed by averaging the ratings of six positive emotional traits.