Thanks for introduction to the tightness-looseness culture. Actually, this is one of the important reasons for my mother immigrating to the U.S. because her openess to new experiences is considered against the normal ways of living accroding to her friends in China. Interestingly, from time to time, she complains about many U.S. colleagues regularly breaking work rules and regulations.
Besides, when I am doing questionnaire evaluating the level of tightness-losseness, I found many items are about "self-discipline" and "tolerance to uncertainty". I am not sure if they have construct validity problem as I assume self-organized according to rules and routines set by the individual themselves may not necessarily relate to the conformity/obedience to norms set by the culture and society. There are many very oragnized persons around me who are used to doing reflections systematically on the norms people surrounded take granted to. Take the interesting example of dishwasher^_^: there exist good and bad ways to load dishwasher, but the way indicated by your mother or the instruction book might not be the best one.
For me, I scored 56 as moderately loose. I consider myself strictly following the rule and regulations when they are justifable (like just laws to prevent harm, or rules of a card game to keep the game going), esepcially when someone explains the rules and their reasonings beforehand. However, I am very doubtful when norms are debatable, esepcially when someone impose norms on others without offering persuasive reasonings (e.g., you should get married because this is what most people do). Therefore, I may be a weird case to put into the binary classification.
Thanks Zifan! Interesting to hear about your experiences and how some folks--especially cultural transplants (like your mom), might find themselves between tight and loose. And good points about the operationalization--there's always tradeoffs with any items.
Thanks for introduction to the tightness-looseness culture. Actually, this is one of the important reasons for my mother immigrating to the U.S. because her openess to new experiences is considered against the normal ways of living accroding to her friends in China. Interestingly, from time to time, she complains about many U.S. colleagues regularly breaking work rules and regulations.
Besides, when I am doing questionnaire evaluating the level of tightness-losseness, I found many items are about "self-discipline" and "tolerance to uncertainty". I am not sure if they have construct validity problem as I assume self-organized according to rules and routines set by the individual themselves may not necessarily relate to the conformity/obedience to norms set by the culture and society. There are many very oragnized persons around me who are used to doing reflections systematically on the norms people surrounded take granted to. Take the interesting example of dishwasher^_^: there exist good and bad ways to load dishwasher, but the way indicated by your mother or the instruction book might not be the best one.
For me, I scored 56 as moderately loose. I consider myself strictly following the rule and regulations when they are justifable (like just laws to prevent harm, or rules of a card game to keep the game going), esepcially when someone explains the rules and their reasonings beforehand. However, I am very doubtful when norms are debatable, esepcially when someone impose norms on others without offering persuasive reasonings (e.g., you should get married because this is what most people do). Therefore, I may be a weird case to put into the binary classification.
Thanks Zifan! Interesting to hear about your experiences and how some folks--especially cultural transplants (like your mom), might find themselves between tight and loose. And good points about the operationalization--there's always tradeoffs with any items.