#3366. What Are Friends for in Russia Versus Canada?: An Approach for Documenting Cross-Cultural Differences

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Abstract:
Most research on friendship has been grounded in Western cultural worlds, a bias that needs to be addressed. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on culture, we assessed cultural models of friendship in three inter-related ways: by (1) deriving people’s mental maps of close interpersonal relationships; (2) examining the factor structure of friendship; and (3) predicting cultural group membership from a given person’s friendship model. The notions of trust and help in adversity emerged as defining features of friendship. Different friendship models seem to be prevalent in these two cultural worlds. The roadmap described in the current research documents these varying intersubjective representations, showcasing an approach that is portable across contexts and relies on well-established methods.
Keywords:
cultural models; friendship; intersubjective culture; methods

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