Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Attitudes, Values and Social Axioms
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editors
Interests: values; attitudes; stereotypes; social axioms; attitudes towards high ability; giftedness identification beliefs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore how social axioms, attitudes and values interact with and define individual behavior in all aspects of life as it stands within the current turmoil due to the constant shifting of environmental, societal, economic, political and personal demands, at the individual and cultural level.
Based on one’s ability and tendencies, it is assumeed that an individual will to apply their personal assets in the pursuit of an optimal way of life, while managing both environmental and personal constraints, so that everyone involved may experience positive outcomes within various social and cultural surroundings. Life satisfaction, well-being, personal thriving, psychological flexibility, self-awareness and self-efficacy entail the perception of achieving valued goals while interacting with any given social and cultural setting. What is valued and needed for any individual varies over time and across social/cultural situations. The cognitive interplay between the subjectively perceived environmental and personal constraints is critical to the methods applied in meeting one’s goals. Given that valued goals are socially and culturally embedded and undergo severe alterations, it is crucial to take into consideration cultural, as well as the cross cultural, perspectives on the matter.
This Special Issue addresses how much—if any—personal values and social axioms contribute to the persuit of an optimal way of life, as well as what indivuals value as optimal, so that a “win-win” outcome may be reached, without harming others. We expect to shed some light on the choices people make when it comes to their academic, professional, social, political, personal and familial choices. By considering what is thought of as constructing, gratifying and valued, we hope to contribute to inhibiting the climbing percentage of NEETs (not in education, employment or training) and amount of aggression seen among adolescents.
Prof. Dr. Gari Aikaterini
Dr. Penny Panagiotopoulou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- attitudes
- values
- social axioms
- life satisfaction
- well-being
- self-efficacy
- self-awareness
- self-construal
- psychological flexibility
- personal thriving
- cultural dimensions
- cross-cultural dimensions
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