The Importance of Psychological Traits

A Cross-Cultural Study

John E. Williams, Robert C. Satterwhite, José L. Saiz (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

193 Seiten

2010 | 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1999
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
9781441932983 (ISBN)

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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	6.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	The Springer Series in Social /Clinical Psychology
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 193 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
ISBN-13	9781441932983 / 9781441932983
Zustand	Neuware