Adopting Basic Principles of the United Nations Academic Impact Initiative (UNAI): Can Cultural Differences Be Predicted from Value Orientations and Globalization?
| Autor: | Martin Nechtelberger, Walter Renner, Soňa Chovanová Supeková, Maria Hadjimarkou, Chino Offurum, Birgit Senft, Andrea Nechtelberger, Panchalan Ramalingam, Kylie Redfern |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Value (ethics)
Higher education lcsh:BF1-990 050109 social psychology Globalization Cultural diversity 0502 economics and business Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Slovak cultural virtues Social science China General Psychology Original Research business.industry 05 social sciences Moral foundations theory moral foundations theory Variance (accounting) United Nations Academic Impact Initiative language.human_language lcsh:Psychology Law higher education language business 050203 business & management globalization |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 8 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| Popis: | © 2017 Nechtelberger, Renner, Nechtelberger, Supeková, Hadjimarkou, Offurum, Ramalingam, Senft and Redfern. The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) Initiative has set forth 10 Basic Principles for higher education. In the present study, a 10 item self-report questionnaire measuring personal endorsement of these principles has been tested by self-report questionnaires with university and post-graduate students from Austria, China, Cyprus, India, Nigeria, and Slovakia (total N = 976, N = 627 female, mean age 24.7 years, s = 5.7). Starting from the assumptions of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), we expected that personal attitudes toward the UNAI Basic Principles would be predicted by endorsement of various moral foundations as suggested by MFT and by the individual's degree of globalization. Whereas for the Austrian, Cypriot, and Nigerian sub- samples this assumption was largely confirmed, for the Chinese, Indian, and Slovak sub- samples only small amounts of the variance could be explained by regression models. All six sub-samples differed substantially with regard to their overall questionnaire responses: by five discriminant functions 83.6% of participants were classified correctly. We conclude that implementation of UNAI principles should adhere closely to the cultural requirements of the respective society and, where necessary should be accompanied by thorough informational campaigns about UN educational goals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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