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The Importance of Psychological Traits. A Cross-Cultural Study.
Williams, John E.; Satterwhite, Robert C. (Georgia Institute Of Technology, Atlanta, Usa); Saiz, Jose L. (Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile)
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Hardback. Presents an examination of the relative importance and favorability assigned to different psychological characteristics in a variety of cultural settings. This text calculates the importance ratings in a worldwide sample of twenty countries, and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of ten. Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMS; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 1050.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
Series
The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306458897
SKU
V9780306458897
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Reviews for The Importance of Psychological Traits. A Cross-Cultural Study.
From the reviews: "This is an important book for transcultural psychiatry. … The authors of this book summarize research over a number of years designed to determine the cross-cultural consistency of trait dimensions. … One of the unique aspects of this study concerned measures of the relative favorability and the psychological importance of traits." (Joel ... Read more