Interpreting personality profiles across cultures: Bilingual, acculturation, and peer rating studies of Chinese undergraduates

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1041-1055

  McCrae, Robert R ^a,e   Bond, Michael H ^c   Yik, Michelle S M ^b   Trapnell, Paul D ^b,d   Paulhus, Delroy L ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CANADA; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0032043393     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.4.1041     Document Type: Article

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