Survey of Chinese University Students on Power Orientation and Conflict Attitudes

A survey of 393 Chinese university students examines the links between power orientations and attitudes toward international conflict, with national security anxiety as a mediator. The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) and published by Yuchen Xiao on figshare in April 2026. The study bridges international relations theory and political psychology at the individual level.

Use Cases

• Testing mediation models based on the described relationships between power orientation, anxiety, and conflict attitudes.
• Analyzing survey-based psychological predictors of support for militarized versus diplomatic responses.
• Replicating structural equation modeling (SEM) on the association between cooperative orientation and preference for peaceful approaches.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a specific survey of 393 participants.
• Analysis employs structural equation modeling (SEM) to test a proposed theoretical framework.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The sample is limited to Chinese university students, which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Survey of university students.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 11:25:03; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China