Understanding Regional Cultural-Psychological Variations and Their Sources in China: A Comprehensive Examination of Relevant Theories

作者：Huajian Cai, Li‐Jun Ji, Han‐Wu‐Shuang Bao, Ziyan Yang, Y D Xie, Xiaoou WANG, Mingyang Zhang, Huijun ZHU, Zhan Su, Zhou Wan, Jun Chen, Ying Yang, Zhijuan Liang, Jinbo Chen, Wenting Zheng, Xiaochong Zhao, Shanming Zhang, Baorui Chang, Hongmin Bai, Defang Mu, Xiting Guan, Xin-qiang Wang, Xi Zhang, Haiya Ye, Feng Yu, Ji Jing, Jing Jie, Xiaowei Wang, Chaofeng He, Chundong Hao, Juan Fang, Guangjun Gong, Kaiyun Li, Fengxun Lin, Yang Yang, Zhenyong Lyu, Siyang Luo, Yong Liu, Shaohong Yong, Mantuan Yao, Du Guang, Xueqin Sun, Anguo Fu, Bin Yin, Gang Dou, Hongxiu Tan, Datao Wang, Qing-peng Zhang, Baocui Hu, Cangyun Zhang, Hsiang-Mei Chen, Yan Wang, Ning He, Zhicheng Li, Shijie Shang, Duan Huang, Kaibin Zhao, Hui Yang, Yang Yang, Xiuhui Dou, Weiqi Zheng, Chao S. Hu, Jung-Hsiang Hsueh, Lei Wang, Yansong Li, Wei Zhou, Qianwei Jin, Yanhui Xi, Lihui Huang, Lingjuan Zeng, Zhechen Wang, Pei Li, Kexin Wang, Xiaoli Liu, Mia Ye, Chunlei Liu, Bin‐Bin Chen, Jianjun Zheng, Yao Wang, Chunliang Yang, Michael Wu, Guanglin Liu, J Li, Guoshuai Fu, Yu Li, Zhen Yu, Chunli Wei, Xiaoyun Chen, Sun Juncai, J Li, Qing-Lan Liu, Yihan Wu, Zhen Wu, Zhongyao Xie, Cheng Liang, Mengxue Zhao, Yang Wang, Congjiao Jiang, 子华明, Zhuoqing Shen, Shuo Geng, Xu Zheng, Kuankuan Shi, Jing-Xi Lin, Wu Que, Jun Yan, Tonggui Li, Fen Yu, Liuna Geng, Xiujuan Wen, Yan Wang, Hongmin Fan, Xi Yang, Dongling Zhang, Yuanbing Deng, Siyi Hao, Xiaoming Wang, Yan-Hong Wang, Lina Ha, Xifeng Geng, Min Guo, Yanhong Zhang, Qian Yang, Na Lv, Youting Wang, Menglin He, Yiming Jing · 发表于：Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.1177/00220221261418017 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Cultural Differences and Values、Social Representations and Identity、Categorization, perception, and language

This research comprehensively examined regional variations in individualism and collectivism within China and the explanatory power of 20 potential factors derived from the existing cultural psychological theories, including socioecological (e.g., climates, subsistence activities, and modernization) and population (e.g., ethnicity, genetic and linguistic features) ones. Three large-scale studies were conducted. In Study 1 ( N = 18,606), we assessed 11 markers of individualism-collectivism. In Studies 2 and 3, we evaluated whether the main findings of Study 1 could be replicated in two large community samples ( N = 8,167 and 20,590, respectively) when perceived cultures of individualism and collectivism were considered and when the pandemic of COVID-19 was going on, respectively. Three studies consistently showed that (1) systematic East-West differences in individualism and collectivism existed, with higher individualism and lower collectivism in Eastern China than in Western China; meanwhile, there was some suggestive evidence of North-South differences, with higher individualism and lower collectivism in Southern China than in Northern China; (2) among the predictive socioecological (e.g., pathogen prevalence, modernization) and population factors (e.g., ethnicity, genetic and linguistic relatedness), modernization was the most potent and robust predictor of individualism and collectivism; (3) regional cultural variations often arose from the combined influences of multiple...