Ownership as interpersonal dominance

Rudmin, Floyd W.

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Ownership as interpersonal dominance: a history and three studies of the social psychology of property

Author:: Rudmin, Floyd W.

Year of publication:: 1988

Language:: English

Subject:: Besitz Eigentum Sozialpsychologie

Topic:: C - Psychology

Shelfmark:: C/R916 O9

Access:: Free access

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.48671/pop.AC14489044

rx confirms that Leadership and Conformity are here the interpersonal values of importance to societal attitudes towards the institution of private property. Table 3 also shows analyses of the data at the individual level, based on pooled random samples of 80 respondents from each of the 15 societies. The random samples were limited to 80 cases because that was the upper limit allowed by the Ceylonese and White South African samples. These same random samples of 80 cases were used in the subsequent multivariate analyses. As shown in Table 3, when the data oto analyzed at the individual level, the major findings of the societal level of analysis are maintained. Leadership remains correlated with both PQ1 (n=1200, r=.12, p<.001) and PQ2 (n=1200, r =.11, p<.001), as does Conformity with PQ2 (n=1200, r=-.11, p<.001). Surprisingly, at the individual ievel of analysis, preference for Benevolence was negatively correlated with PQ1 (n=1200, r=-.16, p<.001) and with PQ2 {n=1200, r=-,10, p<.001). The strong relationships between property attitudes and values of Leadership and Conformity across societies were not uniformly evident within societies. Noting statistically significant correlations (p <.05) in the opposite directions from those shown in Table 3, Leadership and PQ1 were not positively correlated for Brazilians (n=124, r =-.15, p =.04). Conformity and PQ2 were not negatively correlated for Brazilians (n=124, r=.24, p =.003), Canadians (n =200, r=.17, p =.009), Danes (n =269, r=.24, p <.001), Dutch (n=842, r=.18, p<.001), Swedes (n=176, r=.22, p=.001) or U. S. citizens (n=526, r=.14, p>.001). However, the distributions of within-society correlations of Leadership and Conformity measures with property measures may not be random. An examination of societal measures of interpersonal values as predictors of within-society correlations of Leadership and Conformity with PQ1 and PQ2 respectively, suggests the possibility that the within-soclety correlations are modulated by the degree of societal preference for Independence. Figures 3 and 4 display the relationships of societal preference for Independence to within-society correlations of Leadership and Conformity to private property attitudes based on random samples of 80 respondents from each society. Figure 3 shows that median societal preference for Independence is positively correlated with a positive relationship between favoring Leadership and favoring private property (n=15, r=.62, p=.01). Thus, the strong positive relationship of Leadership and property evident across societies is increasingly characteristic of people within societies the more they favor personal Independence. Figure 4

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