An Exploration of Chinese-Russian Youth Humanistic Exchanges and Cooperation Based on VAR Modeling

Abstract

In the cross-cultural context, interpersonal trust and cooperative behaviors become more complex due to mutual adaptation, communication and interaction between different cultures and races. This study explores the self-perception and materialism of Chinese and Russian youth in humanistic exchanges and the impact on interpersonal trust and cooperation behavior. This paper constructs a humanistic exchange and cooperation evaluation model based on VAR. We apply the panel data clustering method based on structural relationships to model and analyze heterogeneous and cross-sectionally independent PVAR. The variable coefficient PVAR is divided into K classes according to the structural relationship aggregation to reduce the number of parameters estimated by the model. The model estimation method of PVAR based on relational clustering in the case of cross-section independence is proposed. Among the various scores of humanistic exchanges between Chinese and Russian youths, the academic self dimension score of self-perception is positively proportional to the materialistic desire dimension score of materialism, with a correlation coefficient of 0.376. From the test of the differences in interpersonal trust and cooperative behavior between Chinese and Russian youths, Chinese youths’ interpersonal trust (M=5.36) and collective behavior (M=36.18) are higher than those of Russian youths’ interpersonal trust (M=4.27) and cooperative behavior (M=33.94). The combined results show that there is still a need to improve the cross-cultural adaptation of Russian youth coming to China and to enhance cooperative behavior with others.