Increasing Individualism and Collectivism

Individual Difference Clinical Trial

Official title:

Increasing Individualism or Collectivism on Amazon Mechanical Turk Participants

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03429725
• Other study ID #: HSS-1502-P02-03
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 24, 2017
• Last updated: February 11, 2018
• Start date: September 17, 2017
• Est. completion date: October 23, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: February 2018
• Source: Yale-NUS College
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

An online survey is conducted on MTurk populations from India and USA. Participants were assigned either a condition with primes of individualism or one with primes of collectivism, before responding to a scale on culture and indicating details of their demographics.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 495
• Est. completion date: October 23, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: October 23, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 21 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• above age 21

Exclusion Criteria:

• below age 21

• not able to make decisions for self

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Individual Difference

Intervention

Other:
• Online prime (statements writing)
Participants to write statements describing themselves or their similarities to their community.
• Online prime (circling)
Participants to circle either pronouns denoting themselves or pronouns denoting others.
• Online prime (Sumarian Warrior)
Participants read a passage which described the factors that led to his success in a war.
• Online prime (all)
Participants wrote statements, circled pronouns, as well as read the Sumarian Warrior passage.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Singapore	Yale-NUS College	Singapore

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Yale-NUS College

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Singapore, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Higher collectivism or individualism level	Individualism and collectivism levels will be measured by Triandis & Gelfand (1998)'s "Culture Orientation Scale". This is a 16-item scale designed to measure: 1) Vertical Collectivism (VC) - seeing the self as a part of a collective and accepting hierarchy and inequality within that collective; 2) Vertical Individualism (VI) - seeing the self as fully autonomous, but recognizing and accepting the existence of inequality; 3) Horizontal Collectivism (HC) - seeing the self as part of a collective but viewing all the members of that collective as equal counterparts; and 4) Horizontal Individualism (HI) - seeing the self as fully autonomous, and believing in equality amongst individuals.; All items are answered on a 5-point scale, ranging from 1= never or definitely no and 5 = always or definitely yes. Each dimension's items are summed up separately to create a VC, VI, HC, and HI score to reflect the level of collectivism and individualism in the sampled group.	10 minutes