Cultural Dimensions: a Factor Analysis of Textor's A Cross-Cultural Summary

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Textor's A Cross-Cultural Summary is a computer-produced compilation of significant relationships between all the extant cross-cultural variables that were available at the time. Together with two coefficients of association (phi and chi-square) and levels of significance, the relationships are also expressed in verbal form. In order, however, to reduce these findings to more manageable form and to obtain basic underlying factor dimensions which account for the relationships between the variables, a principal components analysis and Varimax rotation were conducted. The first 488 variables from the Summary were used. Also included was a review of cross-cultural research to date and the problem of sampling as related to the area.

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