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The Questionnaire Construction Of Social Exchange Resources And Its Status Quo Investigation

Posted on:2012-05-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S DaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330338968575Subject:Psychology
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Sociality is human's basic attribute. Human's essence is the sum of all social relations. Social exchange theory holds the opinion that all human behaviors are built on the basis of rationalization choice, but the behavior of people always tends to maximized rationalization, that is, to obtain the biggest reward with the minimum price. Scholars in China and other countries have done a lot of research on social exchange resources, which is mostly based on theoretical and transcendental inference. Empirical studies related to social exchange resources, however, always try to explain the organization relationship of enterprise and relevant main resources of this kind.This study aims at exploring the content of social exchange resources in the process of interactive communication among people. In all kinds of relationships, what could you pay and also what do you hope to get from others when contacting and interacting with different people? This paper defines exchange resources as the actor's ability, property and other attributes that can reward or punish others concerned. It discusses about the specific content and characteristics of social exchange resources theoretically; This study is based on the social exchange resources theory regarding adults as research objects;. This research preliminarily puts forward the conception model of Chinese social exchange according to the results of interviews and half-open questionnaires, and finally get topics under this model; then determines rational construction for Chinese social exchange resources based on the analysis results from exploratory factor of prediction questionnaire and confirmatory factor of formal questionnaire; uses organizational Chinese social exchange resources questionnaire to measure the objects under different demography; studies the current situation of the surveyed group social exchange resources based on testing results.Result:1.The social exchange resources questionnaire has 26 items, composed of five factors: emotional needs, emotional pay, information exchange, connections resources and material resources. This questionnaire has a clear structure and favorable reliability and validity.2.People living in midland and coastland have significant difference on emotional exchange and connections resources. People of midland have more emotional needs and emotional pay; The adults who are different gender and different rank of income have differences in the exchange of information. There are significant differences on material between students and non-students, among different ages and different income level. Compared with non-students, students pay more attention to emotional exchange and less to material exchange.
Keywords/Search Tags:social exchange, exchange resources, questionnaire construction
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