The cross-cultural application of the social axioms survey in The South African police service

Barnard, A. C.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Meiring, Deon

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“…Social Complexity and Fate Control had shown marginal reliability as some previous researches [ 17 ]. The Social Complexity factor thus remains problematic; this is the same factor from the original social axioms survey that Barnard et al [ 4 ] were unable to replicate in their South African study.…”

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Social axioms on high school students in the North African context: Validation and fit of the SAS-II

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Social axioms or general social beliefs represent people’s cognitive map of their social world acquired through social experiences. Empirical research has related the central constructs in the study of psychology and social axioms, establishing a broad nomological network in various cultural settings. This paper studies the validity of the Social Axioms Survey II (SAS-II) short form, Spanish version, on the individual level in Melilla as North Africa´s borderland. Participants were 410 high school students from 14 to 18 years of age. The reliability analysis, the discriminant validity analysis, and the confirmatory factor analysis through the structural model equation, showed similar results to previous studies in other contexts and allowing the use of the survey in Melilla. In addition it is presented a fitted model that improves the psychometric results showing significant differences with the initial model. The confirmatory multi-group analysis of the fitted model shows measurement invariance across educational centers, allowing new research possibilities in the cultural context of Melilla.

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Social axioms on high school students in the North African context: Validation and fit of the SAS-II

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“…Evidence from South Africa Barnard, Meiring and Rothmann (2008) investigated the SAS's construct equivalence, item bias and reliability in the South African context using a sample drawn from the South African Police Service (SAPS). They reported that only four interpretable factors were consistent with Barnard et al's (2008) study the SAS construct of Social Complexity also did not replicate. Hence these two scales (Fate Control and Social Complexity) needed to be improved (Leung et al, 2012).…”

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The factor structure of the Social Axioms Survey II (SASII) in the South African context

Barnard

Meiring

Rothmann

2017

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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The objective of this study was to validate the new Social Axioms Survey (SASII). The study sample comprised university students (n = 793) as well as their family members and friends (n = 645). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) following and an initial exploratory factor analysis yielded a five-factor model: Social Cynicism, Social Complexity, Reward for Application, Religiosity and Fate Control. The findings of this study support the use of the new SASII in South Africa for research purposes.

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“…Drawing on Rotter's (1966) characterisation of locus of control, Leung and Bond conceptualise social axioms as generalised expectancies about the world and how it works, typically taking the form A  B and may be causal or correlational. Beginning with qualitative research in Hong Kong and Venezuela and using some items culled from the literature, their collaborative team developed a measurement scale, collected data in over 40 cultures and identified social axiom dimensions at the levels of individuals and nations, which include South Africa (university students, Bond & Leung, 2009;Bond, Leung, Au, Tong, De Carrasquel et al, 2004) and (police recruits, Barnard, Rothmann & Meiring, 2008).…”

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Social axioms: A new culture measure for South African business research

Burgess

2011

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This study is intended to introduce social axiom theory to South African business researchers and, in this process, to provide new empirical evidence pertinent to the South African context. We examine social axioms in the largest and most representative national metropolitan population ever studied, providing scores for social axiom dimensions at the individual-level and nation-level, as well as assessments of relations with sociodemographics, values, personality and life satisfaction. The results support the convergent validity, discriminant validity and composite reliability of the 25-item brief version of the Social Axioms Scale. We extend prior research on social axioms and personality by examining relations with optimum stimulation level (OSL), an important personality construct studied in marketing and human resource management. A hierarchical regression model illustrates the power of social axioms in predicting life satisfaction, over and above the effects of sociodemographics, values and optimum stimulation level. Several points of departure for fruitful business research are identified.

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The cross-cultural application of the social axioms survey in The South African police service

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Social axioms on high school students in the North African context: Validation and fit of the SAS-II

Social axioms on high school students in the North African context: Validation and fit of the SAS-II

The factor structure of the Social Axioms Survey II (SASII) in the South African context

Social axioms: A new culture measure for South African business research

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