
Catalin Mosoia
Romanian Academy, RomaniaPresentation Title:
Characteristics of the social axioms: A study on temporal stability performed on a group of Romanian participants
Abstract
This study investigates the stability of social axioms in time for a group of Romanians living in Romania. A sample of N = 501 participants, females and males aged 12 to 94 (M = 43.58, SD = 15.243), filled in an online survey between 22 May 2019 and 13 February 2021. A subgroup of 51 participants aged 17 to 94 years (M = 51.35, SD = 14.055), 29 females (M = 49.72, SD = 11.774) and 22 males (M = 53.50, SD = 16.644), college graduates in their vast majority, answered the questionnaire for three times: the first time in 2019, between 22 May and 23 October 2019, the second time in 2020, between 19 May and 19 November 2020, and the third between 20 November 2020 and 13 February 2021. In this study, we used the Social Axioms Survey II (Leung et al., 2012), which measured social cynicism, reward for application, social complexity, fate control and religiosity; the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale General Measure (Chen et al., 2015), which measured the basic psychological needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence; the five-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index, WHO-5 (1998), which measured the subjective well-being. ANOVA with repeated measures was used to understand whether there was a difference in social axioms amongst the 51 participants over the three investigation periods. The dependent variable was the social axiom, whilst the independent variable was time. The repeated measures analysis of variance results indicated no statistically significant difference in social axioms amongst participants. However, significant differences between social axioms resulted between female and male participants. The present study contributes to a better understanding of social axioms and their relevance to basic psychological needs and human behaviour.
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