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A COMPARISON OF RESPONSES BETWEEN INDIAN AND EUROPEAN SOUTH AFRICANS TO THE TMAS
Author(s) -
Spinks Peter M.,
Moerdyk Alwyn P.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598008246980
Subject(s) - humanities , psychology , political science , sociology , philosophy
Cross‐cultural anxiety research has generally used translated forms of inventories such as Taylor's M.A.S. and Spielberger's S.T.A.I., checking only for semantic equivalence and ignoring the problems of item content and typical response modes. In order to clarify this approach, the 50 item M.A.S. was administered to groups of South African Europeans and South African Indians, both of which were varied on an educational dimension. Results suggest that the two groups vary in response, but that this variation decreases with educational level.