Comparative psychosemantic distances between the term I and other terms related to responsibility – an exploratory study
Comparative psychosemantic distances between the term I and other terms related to responsibility – an exploratory study

Summary/Abstract: The categorical structure of the term “responsibility” and its relations with the concept of self were revealed in a study conducted with 57 English-speaking participants with different native languages. 30 words were extracted from dictionaries and encyclopedias and the psychosemantic distances between them were measured by means of the free classification method. It seems that people perceive responsibility as relatively distant from their Selfconcept. They relate it more to the narrow social sphere, and less to the wider social sphere, more to terms with a locus of responsibility closer to personality (e.g. “will”), and less – to terms with a locus of responsibility farther from personality (e.g. “obligation”), more with positive and neutral prerequisites and consequences of responsibility, and less with its negative prerequisites and consequences. Sex and native language influence the categorical structure of responsibility to some extent.

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