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Ng, Isabel Wing-chun.

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A cross cultural study of power and power motivation in China and the United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A cross cultural study of power and power motivation in China and the United States./
Author:	Ng, Isabel Wing-chun.
Description:	172 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: B, page: 1352.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-02B.
Subject:	Psychology, Social. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3253369

A cross cultural study of power and power motivation in China and the United States.
Ng, Isabel Wing-chun.

A cross cultural study of power and power motivation in China and the United States. - 172 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: B, page: 1352.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2007.

This dissertation explores how Chinese and Americans differ in their images of power---whether it involves decision-making or status. Given their unique historical, political, and philosophical traditions ( Confucian and Legalist Schools), Chinese people may experience power differently. I addressed three specific questions: (1) whether Chinese and Americans differ in the extent they associate power with decision-making and status; and (2) whether certain cultural values could explain the cultural differences; and (3) whether Chinese have a different implicit cognitive structure of power.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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A cross cultural study of power and power motivation in China and the United States.
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520 $a This dissertation explores how Chinese and Americans differ in their images of power---whether it involves decision-making or status. Given their unique historical, political, and philosophical traditions ( Confucian and Legalist Schools), Chinese people may experience power differently. I addressed three specific questions: (1) whether Chinese and Americans differ in the extent they associate power with decision-making and status; and (2) whether certain cultural values could explain the cultural differences; and (3) whether Chinese have a different implicit cognitive structure of power.
520 $a I aroused power concern or the implicit power motive with two experimental manipulations---one reflecting the decision-making aspect of power (allocating bonuses to other employees) and one reflecting the status aspect of power (sitting in a professor's seat). 360 participants from three universities in the US (University of Michigan), Hong Kong (Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Beijing (Peking University) were randomly assigned to these two experimental conditions and the control condition. After exposure to either of these arousal conditions or the control condition, participants wrote stories to Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures to assess power motivation indirectly. Both Chinese (expected) and Americans (unexpected) wrote more power-relevant stories after the status power arousal than those in the control condition, but only Americans wrote more power-relevant stories after the decision-making power arousal. In other words, I demonstrated that whereas both Americans and Chinese have strong mental association of power with status, only Americans but not Chinese associate power and decision-making strongly, which I argue is a consequence of the pluralist view of power in the Western tradition.
520 $a After writing TAT stories, participants filled out a questionnaire measuring various personality characteristics. Although some psychologists conceive of culture in psychological terms, the Chinese-American differences in motive arousal were mostly not mediated by personality variables. The only exception was that for the Chinese samples, those who wrote fewer power relevant stories after exposure to decision-making power cues were those with higher need for survival than self-expression.
520 $a Finally, Chinese stories written in arousal and control conditions were compared and an indigenous Chinese power theme of "multiple, layered perspectives" emerged.
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