Li, S., & Brown, C. M. (2014). Activating Different Attributional Patterns in Chinese Bicultural Individuals with Language Cues. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 19(4).
Li and Brown focused on the how the effects of language would influence attributional patterns in Chinese bicultural individuals, who resided in Western countries. The independent variable is language and it is operationally defined as an effective cue that has commonly been used to initiate corresponding constructs regarding bicultural individuals. The dependent variables are the two attributional factors: dispositional factors and situational factors. Dispositional factors were operationally defined as personal traits, thoughts, and other factors that reside within …show more content…
The sample scenario used for the other section was “Paul helps and old lady cross the street” accompanied the instruction to simplify the understanding of participants. The first scenario was “John gets an A for the test” followed by 11 other random scenarios. The instruction for the self-section began with “imagine yourself as a protagonist” and the remaining was equivalent to the other-section. The sample scenario was “You become very rich.” The first test scenario was that “You leave the movie theatre smiling” and 11 other scenarios appeared randomly. The order of the two reasons was randomly accompanied each scenario. Participant’s scores were concluded by adding up the points for a certain category. The first hypothesis suggested that the people who live longer in Western countries will have less situational attribution in self-sections and other-sections; however, a Pearson correlation showed that these results were not significant. The second and third hypothesis concluded that Chinese-primed participants would have more situational and attributional than English-primed
Li and Brown focused on the how the effects of language would influence attributional patterns in Chinese bicultural individuals, who resided in Western countries. The independent variable is language and it is operationally defined as an effective cue that has commonly been used to initiate corresponding constructs regarding bicultural individuals. The dependent variables are the two attributional factors: dispositional factors and situational factors. Dispositional factors were operationally defined as personal traits, thoughts, and other factors that reside within …show more content…
The sample scenario used for the other section was “Paul helps and old lady cross the street” accompanied the instruction to simplify the understanding of participants. The first scenario was “John gets an A for the test” followed by 11 other random scenarios. The instruction for the self-section began with “imagine yourself as a protagonist” and the remaining was equivalent to the other-section. The sample scenario was “You become very rich.” The first test scenario was that “You leave the movie theatre smiling” and 11 other scenarios appeared randomly. The order of the two reasons was randomly accompanied each scenario. Participant’s scores were concluded by adding up the points for a certain category. The first hypothesis suggested that the people who live longer in Western countries will have less situational attribution in self-sections and other-sections; however, a Pearson correlation showed that these results were not significant. The second and third hypothesis concluded that Chinese-primed participants would have more situational and attributional than English-primed