Table 6 Descriptive statistics of the three assessments on the three aesthetic dimensions for Chinese art as well as the Cronbach’s indices (α) of the two participant groups´ internal consistency.
From: On the universality of aesthetic preference and inference: a cross-cultural (Chinese–German) study
Chinese art | ||||||||||
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Self-assessment | Chinese-assessment | German-assessment | ||||||||
Subjects | BD | AD | CD | BD | AD | CD | BD | AD | CD | |
Chinese participants (n = 43) | M (SD) | 54.3 (12.9) | 2.24 (12.6) | 58.6 (6.32) | 57.2 (15.3) | 5.04 (14.2) | 61.2 (6.31) | 52.8 (9.64) | 1.55 (10.3) | 57.4 (5.27) |
α | 0.83 | 0.74 | 0.83 | 0.85 | 0.80 | 0.87 | 0.83 | 0.85 | 0.93 | |
German participants (n = 40) | M (SD) | 50.9 (15.0) | 0.34 (12.4) | 49.7 (11.1) | 60.3 (10.8) | 5.00 (13.0) | 57.3 (6.65) | 51.0 (11.9) | −0.70 (11.7) | 51.5 (8.48) |
α | 0.75 | 0.67 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.76 | 0.85 | 0.74 | 0.71 | 0.78 | |
