The Importance of Psychological Traits: A Cross-Cultural Study / Edition 1

by John E. Williams, Robert C. Satterwhite, Josï L. Saiz

Overview

This valuable text presents an exhaustive examination of the relative importance and favorability assigned to different psychological characteristics in a variety of cultural settings. Importance ratings in a worldwide sample of twenty countries, and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of ten, are calculated in terms of the Five-Factor Model of personality and other scoring systems. One noteworthy chapter summarizes findings from previous cross-cultural studies evaluating gender and age stereotypes and self concepts. A unique feature is the extensive set of appendices, of which two let readers test hypotheses of their own devising and provide the individual item values for the Five-Factor Model scoring system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306458897
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/31/1998
Series:	The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

Reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance of different psychological traits in 20 countries, and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. The psychological characteristics studied are the 300 items of the Adjective Check List (Gough & Heilbrun, 1980). Concepts, methodology, and interpretation are fully presented. In addition, the appendices enable interested readers to test hypotheses of their own. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

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 Paris, Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 41 (3), 2004)

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