When Personality and Culture Clash: ThE Psychological Distress of Allocentrics in an Individualist Culture and Idiocentrics in a Collectivist Culture

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 331-361

  Caldwell Harris, Catherine L ^a   Ayçiçegi, Ayse ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

collectivism; individualism; personality; subclinical; well being

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARCISSISM; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOPATHY; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOIDISM; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BOSTON; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NARCISSISM; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; TURKEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749603913     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461506066982     Document Type: Article

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