Belief in Intentional Worlds Scale

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.

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Purpose: The belief in intentional worlds scale assesses participants’ endorsement of the notion of intentional worlds.

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Korean Translation by Sungik Hu