WORLD VIEWS OF WHITE AMERICAN, MAINLAND CHINESE, TAIWANESE, AND AFRICAN STUDENTS - AN INVESTIGATION INTO BETWEEN-GROUP DIFFERENCES

Using an existential perspective, world views of White Americans, main land Chinese, Taiwanese, and Africans were investigated. Mainland Chin ese, Taiwtnese, and African international students differed from White American students in perceiving human relationships as lineal-hierarc hical and collateral-mutual, human nature as evil, nature as controlla ble, and the doing modality as valuable. White Americans gave primacy to individual goals in interpersonal relationships and preferred the b eing modality. Some international students' world views were also diff erent from traditional values of their respective cultures, reflecting possibly the changing perceptions of modernizing societies with chang ing political situations. Suggestions are made for a modernization mod el of world views across cultures. Implications for applied psychology are discussed.