Abstract

This study was conducted to find out what kind of relationship the Korean traditional collectivism has with sex, age, level of education, and type of marriage. This study investigated 580 married men and women between the age of 31 and 65. Equal number of subjects were sampled for each age and sex group. The results showed that there was no significant sex difference in collectivistic tendency. There was, however, a significant difference in collectivistic tendency between age groups. This is, for both men and women, the older the group, the more collectivistic they were. There was a significant difference in collectivistic tendency among educational groups. This is, the higher the level of edcational received, the less collectivistic they were. There was no significant difference between subjects married for love and those whose marriage was arranged. Subjects living with parents and those not-living with parents did not show any significant difference in their tendency of collectivism.