Publication Date
2011
Document Type
Thesis
Committee Members
Nathan Bowling (Committee Member), Gary Burns (Committee Chair), Debra Steele-Johnson (Committee Member)
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Abstract
In the current study I examined the relationships between personality, culture, and the decision to pursue self-interests. Specifically, I proposed that conscientiousness, extraversion, idiocentrism, masculinity, and power distance would be positively related to the decision to pursue self-interests whereas agreeableness would be negatively related to the pursuit of self-interests. I also proposed an exploratory examination of interactions between personality and individual cultural values in predicting the decision to pursue self- interests. As predicted, idiocentrism and masculinity significantly predicted the decision to pursue self-interests. In addition, masculinity moderated the effects of both agreeableness and neuroticism on the pursuit of self-interests. Also, idiocentrism moderated the effects of conscientiousness and openness on the pursuit of self-interests. Finally, power distance moderated the relationship between conscientiousness and the pursuit of self-interests.
Page Count
66
Department or Program
Department of Psychology
Year Degree Awarded
2011
Copyright
Copyright 2011, all rights reserved. This open access ETD is published by Wright State University and OhioLINK.
