Additional cross-cultural evidence on the selective usage of nonmaterial beliefs in explaining life events
✍ Scribed by Richard DeRidder; Erwin Hendriks; Bruna Zani; Albert Pepitone; Luisa Saffiotti
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
Two studies, one conducted in the Netherlands (N 87) and one in Italy with two samplesÐCatholic Youth (N 41) and Young Communists (N 41)Ðassessed the cross-cultural generality of the previously con®rmed hypothesis (Pepitone & Saotti, 1997) that six universal nonmaterial beliefsÐfate, God, luck, chance, just punishment, and just rewardÐare used selectively to interpret life events. A `selective correspondence' between the six beliefs and the standard life event cases speci®cally constructed to engage the belief-specializations was predicted. All three samples showed the predicted correspondence in terms of signi®cant ordinal correlations in a 6 nonmaterial belief  9 life events classi®cation. In addition, the ®ndings are consistent with the assumption that the degree of selective correspondence depends upon the importance of beliefs in the sample under study.