Urbanization, Culture, and Helpfulness: Cross-Cultural Studies in England and the Sudan.

Yousif, Yousif; Korte, Charles

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ERIC Number: EJ517199

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Publication Date: 1995

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Urbanization, Culture, and Helpfulness: Cross-Cultural Studies in England and the Sudan.

Yousif, Yousif; Korte, Charles

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, v26 n5 p474-89 Sep 1995

Studies the "urban unhelpfulness" effect in England and the Sudan and the validity of cultural and dispositional explanations that have been put forward to explain it. Responses from 270 participants show the urban unhelpfulness effect to be quite equivalent in both countries. Additionally, the dispositional explanation was not supported in light of the poor correspondence between the behavioral and attitudinal data. (GR)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship, Research, Rural Areas, Social Attitudes, Social Behavior, Social Psychology, Social Science Research, Urban Areas, Urbanization

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Sudan; United Kingdom (England)

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