Big five personality and cultural relocation factors in Vietnamese Australian students' intercultural social self-efficacy

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 181-201

  Mak, Anita S ^a   Tran, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big five personality factors; Cross cultural adaptation; Ethnic identity; Immigration; Social self efficacy; Sociocultural factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035285547     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-1767(00)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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