1981 Volume 8 Issue 9 Pages 65-80
A questionnaire on interpersonal attitudes was administered to university students majoring engineering in Singapore, Thailand, and Japan. Examination of responses to individual questions was followed by classification of response types by means of POSA, by characterization of the attitude structure by Quantification III, and by characterization of individual respondents by means of matrices of respondents by item categories, arranged in the order of individual scores and item scores, respectively. It was found that the dimension of attitudes of friendliness to others in general was common in all samples, while attitudes to specific others in specific situations were differently related to each other and to general attitudes in each sample. Inconsistency of unfriendly specific attitudes to each other was noted in every sample, suggesting that transition to an individualistic attitude structure is far from completion.
