Table 7 Canonical correlations between competence and control beliefs and social axioms.

From: On whom do you rely—me, myself, and I? competence and control beliefs applied to the related personality model

Variables sets

 

Germany

Kenya

Canonical variables

1

r

1

r

2

r

1: Competence and control beliefsa

 Self-concept of own competence

–0.01

–0.50

0.32

0.77

–0.79

–0.37

 Internality

 

–0.23

–0.66

0.78

0.95

0.48

0.18

 Powerful others

 

0.24

0.79

0.21

–0.02

–0.04

–0.46

 Chance

 

0.63

0.93

–0.10

–0.19

–0.80

–0.76

 % redundancy

 

26.7

 

9.8

 

5.2

 

2: Social Axiomsb

 Social cynicism

0.46

0.51

–0.08

0.16

–0.09

–0.27

 Reward for application

–0.12

–0.09

0.92

0.99

–0.59

–0.04

 Social complexity

–0.15

–0.29

0.19

0.67

0.44

0.23

 Fate control

0.86

0.83

0.02

–0.24

–0.89

–0.82

 Religiosity

–0.14

–0.06

–0.05

0.24

0.40

0.31

 % redundancy

10.2

 

8.1

 

3.9

 

 Canonical correlation CR (CRT)

0.70 (0.80)

 

0.51 (0.57)

 

0.47 (0.53)

 

 Significance test F(p)

2.17 (0.005)

 

2.57 ( < 0.001)

 

2.31 (0.009)

 

 % of variance

49.1

 

25.8

 

21.7

 
  1. r = canonical loading.
  2. aI-SEE (Greve et al., 2001; Krampen, 1991).
  3. bSAS II short (Barnard et al., 2017; Bierbrauer and Klinger, 2001; Leung et al., 2012).