Postawy wobec kultury i tradycji narodowej i ich osobowościowe uwarunkowania

Abstract

The main aim of this research is investigation of attitudes towards national culture and tradition. It was assumed that these attitudes depend on personality traits, like empathy and machiavellism guilt. The study group consisted of 325 students. The Empathic Understanding of Others Questionnaire (Węgliński) and Mach V Scale (Christie and Geis) were used. The attitudes were diagnosed on the basis of the set of views (two pairs of statements from the publication edited by Reykowski). The results show that national culture and tradition are valued by students having higher empathy indices and lower machiavellism indices. Students having higher machiavellism indices and lower empathy indices accept cultural integration with Western countries.