MULTI-CULTURAL CORRELATIONS OF LIFE CHANGE SCALING - AMERICA JAPAN DENMARK AND SWEDEN

Life changes scaling results were compared in terms of their rank ordering between seven different cultural and American subculture groups. The overall coefficients of correlation (Spearman) between individual groups ranged between +0.629 and +0.943. All these correlations were statistically significant at the 0.0005 level of confidence. It is apparent that despite many cross-cultural differences, similarities between twentieth century cultures are far more pronounced. © 1969.