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THE IMPORTANCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS
A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY |
| By: |
John E. Williams, Robert C. Satterwhite, Jose L. Saiz |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£99.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0306458896 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780306458897 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 1998 |
| Edition: |
2002 ed. |
| Series: |
The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology |
| Pages: |
193 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
XIII, 193 p. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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