Pattern of Social Interaction in Societies of the Asia-Pacific Region
Author(s)
Dadkhah, Ashgar; Harizuka, Susumu; Mandal, Manas K.
Abstract
The major purpose of the study was to create a data base in terms of the dominant domains in the social interactional patterns of collective cultures. We found that the interpersonal domain of social interaction was the most dominant among our samples, followed by the personal domain.The authors developed an 18-item Social Interaction Inventory that yielded a factorial structure based on the 3 domains of social interaction: interpersonal, personal, and extrapersonal. They administered the inventory to samples from 15 countries of the Asia–Pacific region (N = 146). The participants in the different cultural groups preferred to interact more within the interpersonal (in-group) domain as compared with the personal (individual) and extrapersonal (out-group) domains. The findings reflect a collective pattern, rather than an individualistic pattern, of social interaction in the societies of the Asia–Pacific region.
