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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