IACCP 2014 Abstract Submission [604727]
IACCP 2014 Abstract Submission
Cultural change
IACCP14-1250
Cultural dimensions, social axioms and attributional pattern in an intergenerational analysis in Romanian
educational environment
Alin I. Gavreliuc*
Preferred presentation method: Oral or poster
Are you submitting an abstract for the Witkin-Okonji Award ?: No
Abstract: We have realized an intergenerational analysis in terms of cultural dimensions, social axioms and attributional patterns, in
Romanian educational environment. The sample of our study is composed of 522 subjects, teachers from Timisoara, the Western part
of Romania, from high-schools (N=253) and universities (N=269). We have applied: Values Survey Module 94 of Geert Hofstede,
Social Axioms Survey of Kwok Leung and Michael Harris Bond and Locus of Control Scale of J. Rotter. The global portrait is
characterized by high scores of power distance, collectivism, feminity, uncertainty avoidance and a pronounced short term
perspective (for Hofstede model), relatively high scores of social cynicism, reward for application, social complexity, fate control and
religiosity (for social axioms model), and predominant externalist attributional style. One-way ANOVAs with cohorts as independent
variable found statistically significant intergenerational differences regarding locus of control, power distance, social cynicism, social
complexity, fate control and religiosity. We found a younger generation with a problematic profile (highest scores in power distance,
social cynicism, fate control and religiosity) and externalist attributional style, describing a controversial social portrait, different than
the most part of precedent studies associated with this cohorts belonging. All of these trends suggest the presence of a truly insightful
and inertial process of contamination at the level of social cognition for the Romanian younger social strata generated by the older
cohort socialized in communism. Thus, the younger cohorts developed a more fatalistic and duplicitous strategies, even if the younger
are expected to be more self-determined and opened. Our paper has also analysed the implications of this alarming conclusion,
because the tendency is proved to be intense in a social environment (represented by education) that is traditionally associated with
promotion of social responsibility and communitarian involvement. For that reason, beyond of appearances (institutional acquisition
and behavioural modifications), the societal change in Romania realized through a democratic pattern become a problematic one as
well, and the thesis of relational modernization in Romanian educational organizations should be treat with precautions.
Keywords: attributional patternsHofstede’s cultural dimensionsintergenerational comparisonsocial axioms
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