中、加两国青少年回答“个别差异问卷”的跨文化研究

A Cross-Cultural Study of Chinese and Canadian Early and Middle Adolescents' Performance in the Individual Differences Questionaire

对857名加拿大维多利亚和900名中国上海的早期和中期青少年实施佩维奥和哈希曼的个别差异问卷(修订版)调查。结果在加拿大样组中重复发现了他们研究中的三个表象因素和三个言语因素,在中国样组中则重复出现主要的表象因素和言语因素。然而,两样组均表现出思维的表象方式超出言语方式,这和佩维奥和哈希曼研究中关于加拿大成人思维偏爱言语而非表象的结果不同。

A revised version of the IndividualDifferences Questionaire(Paivio & Harsh-man,1983)was administered to 857 earlyand middle adolescents in Victoria,Canadaand was translated into Chinese and given to600 early and middle adolescents in Shang-hai,China.The findings of three imaginaland three verbal factors in Canadian samplereplicated the Paivio and Harshman study;the two major imaginal and verbal factorswere replicated in the Chinese sample.Boththe Chinese and Canadian adolescent samples,however,indicated an endorsement of imag-inal styles of thinking over verbal styles,a finding incongruent with the Paivio andHarshman research measuring Canadianadults who demonstrated a verbal rather thanan imaginal preference.