The Importance of Psychological Traits
A Cross-Cultural Study
Seiten
1998
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2002 ed.
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
9780306458897 (ISBN)
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
9780306458897 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.1998 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Springer Series in Social /Clinical Psychology |
| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 193 p. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780306458897 / 9780306458897 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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