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. 2015 Nov 30;112(50):15348–15353. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1509839112

Table S5.

Cultural differences in the attitude and behavioral measurements

Attitude and behavioral measurements Mean t(48)
United States China United States vs. China
Latitude vs. constraint in daily life 4.17 4.80 −5.20***
Importance of territorial defense 5.84 6.68 −3.01**
Cultural superiority 3.68 4.59 −2.93**
Self-control 2.38 2.43 −0.30
Creative performance 4.70 3.72 2.07*
Social economic status 5.96 5.16 1.99*

The first two columns show mean scores of the attitudinal and behavioral measurements for the United States and China, respectively. The last column shows independent-sample t values (degrees of freedom) of comparisons for each scale between the United States and China. Higher scores of the following scales indicate greater tightness, more importance of territorial defense, higher cultural superiority, higher self-control, better creative performance, and higher social economic status, respectively.

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P < 0.1; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.