Marlies de Groot at the IACCP 2018 Conference

Marlies de Groot co-organized (with Yvette van Osch, Tilburg University) a symposium at the 2018 Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) in Guelph, Canada. The aim of the well-attended symposium was to obtain a better understanding of what honor is and how it can be measured. In her talk, Marlies presented results from a pilot study across eight countries (Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States), in which an adapted version of the honor-dignity-face scale (originally developed by Severance et al., 2013) was administered. She found low reliability scores across all three dimensions. The results in combination with various discussions with local academics also suggested poor cross-cultural construct validity. Emic definitions of honor, face, and dignity did not fully correspond to academic definitions and imply more interplay and overlap between the various categories. Marlies reflected upon these findings and discussed an alternative approach that builds on a more continuous view of the original categorical trichotomy.