The Importance of Psychological Traits - A Cross-Cultural Study (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Release date:	October 1998
First published:	2002
Authors:	John E. Williams • Robert C. Satterwhite • Jose L. Saiz
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	193
Edition:	2002 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-45889-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	0-306-45889-6
Barcode:	9780306458897

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