A Reconsideration of Hofstede’s Fifth Dimension: New Flexibility Versus Monumentalism Data From 54 Countries

Hofstede’s “long-term orientation” (LTO) may be one of the most important dimensions of national culture, as it highlights differences on a continuum from East Asia to Africa and Latin America, strongly associated with differences in educational achievement. However, LTO’s structure lacks theoretica...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cross-cultural research 2018-07, Vol.52 (3), p.309-333
Hauptverfasser: Minkov, Michael, Bond, Michael H., Dutt, Pinaki, Schachner, Michael, Morales, Oswaldo, Sanchez, Carlos, Jandosova, Janar, Khassenbekov, Yerlan, Mudd, Ben
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Zusammenfassung:Hofstede’s “long-term orientation” (LTO) may be one of the most important dimensions of national culture, as it highlights differences on a continuum from East Asia to Africa and Latin America, strongly associated with differences in educational achievement. However, LTO’s structure lacks theoretical coherence. We show that a statistically similar, and theoretically more focused and coherent, dimension of national culture, called “flexibility versus monumentalism,” or vice versa, can be extracted from national differences in self-enhancement and self-stability or self-consistency, as well as a willingness to help people. Using data from nearly 53,000 respondents recruited probabilistically from 54 countries, we provide a new national flexibility-versus-monumentalism index that measures key cultural differences on the world’s East–West geographic axis and predicts educational achievement better than LTO or any other known dimension of national culture.
ISSN:1069-3971
1552-3578
DOI:10.1177/1069397117727488