Cross-cultural research of social loafing
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Keywords:
social loafing, cross-cultural research, oriental and occidental cultures, individualism/collectivism, social compensationAbstract
The article touches upon cross-cultural researches on social loafing. Particularly, the authors analyze the relationship between social loafing and such cross-cultural characteristics as individualism/collectivism, power distance and religious beliefs, namely Confucius' moral phylosophy and Protestant work ethic. The article also presents short history of researches in the influence of cross-cultural factors on the extent of social loafing and the opposite phenomenon of social compensation. Furthermore, the authors analyze results which were already found by foreign researchers. On the basis of this theoretical review the authors have come to the conclusion that social loafing together with other sociopsychological phenomena arises due to plenty of cultural factors interlacing with each other. Despite the fact that the cross-cultural aspect of social loafing has been fairy thoroughly explored by foreign social psychologists there still remain some particular issues, while the answers to them can be found only by means of further empirical researches. The authors also outline variants of further (and probable) researches on the problem considered.References
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