Buch, Englisch, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1050 g
A Cross-Cultural Study
Buch, Englisch, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1050 g
Reihe: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
ISBN: 978-0-306-45889-7
Verlag: Springer US
All traits were not created equal. —WORCHEL AND COOPER (1983, p. 180) This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance ofdifferent psychological traits in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. While the work is devoted primarily to professionals and advanced students in the social sciences, the relatively nontechnical style - ployed should make the book comprehensible to anyone with a general grasp of the concepts and strategies ofempirical behavioral science. The project grew out of discussions between the first author and third author while the latter was a graduate student at Wake Forest University, U.S.A., in 1990. The third author, a native of Chile, was studying person-descriptive adjectives composing the stereotypes - sociatedwiththe Chilean aboriginal minority knownas Mapuche (Saiz &Williams, 1992). Asweexaminedthe adjectives usedinthisstudy,it was clear that they differed in favorability and also on another dim- sionwhichwe latertermed "psychologicalimportance," i.e., the degree to which adjectives reflected more "central," as opposed to more "- ripheral,"personality characteristics. More important descriptors were those which seemed more informative or diagnostic ofwhat a person "wasreally like"and, hence, might be ofgreater significance in und- standing and predicting an individual’s behavior.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Concepts and Issues Incross-Cultural Psychology.- Psychological Importance, the Five Factor Model, and Transactional Analysis Theory.- The Relative Favorability of Psychological Traits a 10-Country Study.- Psychological Importance Method and Gender Analyses.- Psychological Importance Item Level Analyses.- Psychological Importance Theory Level Analyses.- Psychological Importance Relations to Cultural Comparison Variables.- Summary and Integration of Findings.- Retrospect and Prospect a Broader View.
