Study of the adjustment of Western expatriates in Taiwan ROC with the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-170

  Van Oudenhoven, Jan Pieter ^a   Mol, Stefan ^b   Van der Zee, Karen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural adjustment; Expatriate adjustment; Expatriates; Multicultural effectiveness; Multicultural Personality Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142023235     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-839X.t01-1-00018     Document Type: Article

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