Increasing Individualism and Collectivism
Increasing Individualism or Collectivism on Amazon Mechanical Turk Participants
1 other identifier
interventional
495
1 country
1
Brief 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.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Sep 2017
Shorter than P25 for not_applicable
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
September 17, 2017
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
October 23, 2017
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
October 23, 2017
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
November 24, 2017
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
February 12, 2018
CompletedFebruary 13, 2018
February 1, 2018
1 month
November 24, 2017
February 11, 2018
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
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
Study Arms (2)
Individualism
EXPERIMENTALParticipant will be randomly allocated to either the individualism condition or the collectivism condition. For individualism condition, participant is tasked to write statements relating to his/her differences from the his/her immediate community, circle pronouns that relate to the self, and read passages related to individualism.
Collectivism
EXPERIMENTALParticipant will be randomly allocated to either the individualism condition or the collectivism condition. For collectivism condition, participant is tasked to write statements relating to his/her similarities to the his/her immediate community, circle collective pronouns, and read passages related to collectivism.
Interventions
Participants to write statements describing themselves or their similarities to their community.
Participants to circle either pronouns denoting themselves or pronouns denoting others.
Participants read a passage which described the factors that led to his success in a war.
Participants wrote statements, circled pronouns, as well as read the Sumarian Warrior passage.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- above age 21
You may not qualify if:
- below age 21
- not able to make decisions for self
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Yale-NUS Collegelead
Study Sites (1)
Yale-NUS College
Singapore, 138527, Singapore
MeSH Terms
Interventions
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- DOUBLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
- Purpose
- HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
November 24, 2017
First Posted
February 12, 2018
Study Start
September 17, 2017
Primary Completion
October 23, 2017
Study Completion
October 23, 2017
Last Updated
February 13, 2018
Record last verified: 2018-02