Table 9.
Descriptive data for Chinese and American participants' own motivations.
| Motivation | Relative importance | t(271) | Cohen's ds | Importance rating | t(271) | Cohen's ds | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | China | US | China | |||||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |||||
| Desire | 30.19 | 16.48 | 23.96 | 12.45 | 3.52** | 0.425 | 5.07 | 0.95 | 4.78 | 0.85 | 2.65** | 0.319 |
| Obligation | 21.77 | 15.56 | 23.56 | 12.76 | −1.04 | −0.125 | 4.84 | 1.03 | 5.27 | 0.75 | −3.98*** | −0.481 |
| Self–protection | 48.04 | 23.16 | 52.47 | 17.04 | −1.80 | −0.217 | 5.26 | 1.01 | 5.74 | 0.58 | −4.76*** | −0.575 |
| Punishment | 2.79 | 1.52 | 3.35 | 1.41 | −3.15** | −0.381 | ||||||
| Authority | 3.73 | 1.52 | 4.11 | 1.45 | −2.13* | −0.258 | ||||||
*
p < 0.05,
**
p < 0.01,
***
p < 0.001.