Instructions: Please rate your agreement with the following items.
1. What people think of as essentially “them” is a reflection of what their culture values and desires.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
2. By engaging in everyday behaviors people are reinforcing the behaviors that are desired by my culture.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
3. People in one’s culture value certain behaviors that other people reproduce in everyday interactions.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
4. National identity is created by previous generations of people.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
5. Prior generations of people have unknowingly constructed a world that is full of patterns of behavior.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
6. People live in culturally created worlds that prior generations of people have built.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
7. People do not simply do what their culture tells them to; they have the ability to change their culture.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
8. People’s everyday actions can influence others and modify the culture.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
9. People can pick and choose what aspects of their culture they enact in their daily lives.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
10. An individual’s subjective experience of reality differs from everyone else’s experience of the world.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
11. Everyone inhabits different cultures and has different views of the world.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
12. There is no such thing as “objective reality” because everyone experiences the world differently.
Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Strongly Agree
Cite: Reysen, S., & Katzarska-Miller, I. (2013). Intentional worlds and global citizenship. Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education, 3, 34-52.
Purpose: The belief in intentional worlds scale assesses participants’ endorsement of the notion of intentional worlds.
Rich Text Format Version of the measure is below.
Korean Translation by Sungik Hu
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