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ICP2008, July 20-25, Berlin, GermanyIS-008 Tolerance for ambiguity, creativity, and personality
Relation of ambiguity tolerance to cognitive and affective needs: A cross cultural content analysis
Katya Stoycheva Todd Lubart
Franck Zenasni Kalina Popova
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
PURPOSE
§ examine the relation of ambiguity tolerance to cognitive and affective individual difference measures
§ carry out a content analysis of these scales’ items
CL1 - CL42 need for closure
ST43 - ST54 need for structure
CG55 - CG99 need for cognition
EV100 - EV115 need for evaluation
PR116 - PR135 need for precision
UN136 - UN162 intolerance of uncertainty
AF163 - AF188 need for affect
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
JUDGES
10 Bulgarian doctoral students1 men and 9 women aged 24 to 30
10 French doctoral students2 men and 8 women aged 26 to 38
ITEMS
188 items
translated into Bulgarian and into French
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Judges’ ratings of the 188 items :
related - not related to the AT construct
how much related to AT strongly - moderately - weakly
coded as 0 - 1 - 2 - 3
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Categories of items
Items with consensus on relatedness
Items with consensus on non relatedness
Items with opposite consensus in the two groups of judges
Items with no consensus in both groups
Items with a consensus in one of the groups but not in the other
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
CL ST CG EV PR UN AF
Items 42 12 45 16 20 27 26
Related 38 11 13 10 19 26 4
Non related 6 10
Opposite 1 1 1
No consensus 1 8 1
Differing 3 17 5 1 1 11
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
AT relation to cognitive and affective measures
§ content analysis of the items strongly related and unrelated to the AT construct
§ summary results for each of the scales in relation to the AT construct
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
CL ST CG EV PR UN AF
Items 38 11 13 10 19 26 14
Strong 17 7 1 1 2 18 0above 2,50
Moderate 17 4 4 7 14 6 0 2,00 to 2,50
Weak 4 0 9 2 3 2 41,00 to 2,00
Unrelated 0 0 6 0 0 0 10 below 1,00
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Items with a complete consensus on relatedness
I become uncomfortable when the rules in a situation are not clear (ST54).
I like to know precisely what is meant by information that I learn (PR118).
The ambiguities in life stress me (UN161).
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
42 out of 46 strongly related itemsdiscomfort and frustration
inability to act in ambiguous situation
avoidance of ambiguity in one’s understanding of a situation, event or idea
avoidance of the encounter with ambiguity
4 out of 46 strongly related itemspositive experience in uncertain or ambiguous situations
preference for exploration
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Items unrelated to AT
an approach orientation towards experiencing of emotions
(7 items AF)
the importance assigned to being intellectual and developing one’s intellectual skills
(6 items CG)
an avoidance approach to emotional experiences (3 items AF)
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Scales’ relation to AT
ST 92 % 2,66 (0,20) RLS (5S,2M) DS (2S, 2M)
UN 96 % 2,53 (0,43)
CL 90 % 2,45 (0,33) Pr Am Or Cm De(4of7)
PR 95 % 2,26 (0,26) 74 % M
EV 63 % 2,26 (0,27) 70 % M
CG 29 % 1,42 (0,85) 77 % reverse scored
AF 15 % 0,68 (0,69)
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Cross cultural comparisons
§ discrepancies in judges’ consensus on items’ relation to the AT construct
§ differences in judges’ ratings of the items’ relation to the AT construct
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
Cross cultural comparisons
§ 3 opposite and 38 differing items out of 188CG(18), AF(12), EV(5), CL(4), PR(1) and UN(1)
French judges - 18 out of 38, 5 YES and 13 NO
Bulgarian judges - 20 out of 38, 15 Yes and 5 NO
§ significant differences on 6 out of 137 items (1, p < 0,001) (5, p < 0,05) e AT construct
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
CONCLUSIONS
§ validity of the AT construct
§ cross cultural insights
Ambiguity tolerance: Cross cultural content analysis
Stoycheva, Lubart, Zenasni, Popova (ICP 2008)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Marina Vulova, Maria Trifonova, Carolyn Granier-Deferre, Tzena Mileva
NATO Research Fellowship
Jacobs Foundation - Short-term exchange grant
Laboratory of Cognition and Development University Rene Descartes, Paris, France
Institute of Psychology, Academy of SciencesSofia, Bulgaria
ICP2008, July 20-25, Berlin, Germany
IS-008 Tolerance for ambiguity, creativity, and personality
Relation of ambiguity tolerance to cognitive and affective needs A cross cultural content analysis
Katya Stoycheva, Todd Lubart, Franck Zenasni, Kalina Popova
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