THE PROTESTANT WORK-ETHIC IN BARBADOS

This study first reviewed previous research on the cross-cultural differences in the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE) as measured by psychometric questionnaires. Second, it reported on a study of adolescents in Barbados, where over four hundred children completed eight different measures of the PWE. The different measures were shown to be modestly significantly correlated, suggesting that they were measuring different dimensions of the PWE. Whereas there were no clear relationships between age, class position, and urban-rural residence in PWE scores, girls tended to have higher scores than boys. Overall, this sample of Barbados adolescents appeared to have higher PWE scores than comparable groups from developed countries. © 1991 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.