The Cross-Cultural World-Mindedness Scale evaluates attitudes toward race, religion, immigration, patriotism, economics, war, world government, and global education. The scale is used by study-abroad pre-departure programs. The tests consist of 26-items for which the respondents use a 6-point Likert-style response from “disagree strongly” to “agree strongly”. Example statements regarding world-mindedness are “Our country should have the right to prohibit certain racial and religious groups from entering to live.” and “The primary goal of my country’s foreign policy should be to promote peaceful resolutions of international conflicts.”
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Validity and Reliability
According to data taken from a survey conducted by 10 nations, the Cross-Cultural World-Mindedness Scale internal reliability varied between countries from .69 (India) to .90 (England). The alpha coefficients showed more consistent result with .80 to .85.
Obtaining the Cross-Cultural World-Mindedness Scale
The author makes it available in pdf format on his website: http://faculty.ulv.edu/~derkarab/surveys.php
Relevant References
Der-Karabetian, A. (1984). Nationalism and worldmindedness: Japanese verses American comparison. La Verne, CA: University of La Verne. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED236104).
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Der-Karabetian, A., & Metzer, J. (1993). The cross-cultural world-mindedness scale and political party affiliation. Psychological Reports, 72, 1069-1070.
Der-Karabetian, A., Mangarai, L., Uvias, E., & Watanabe, A. (1994). World-mindedness and the nuclear threat: A four nation test of the superordinate goal hypothesis. Psychologia, 37, 59-65.
Der-Karabetian, A., Stephenson, K., & Poggi, T. (1996). Environmental risk perception, activism and world-mindedness among samples of British and U. S. college students. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 83, 451-462.
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Horvath, A. M. (1997). Ethnocultural identification and the complexities of ethnicity. In K. Cushner & R. Brislin (Eds.), Improving intercultural interactions: Modules for cross-cultural traing programs (Vol 2) (pp. 165-183). Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage.
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