Emergence and composition of the traditional-modern bicultural self of people in contemporary Taiwanese societies

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 167-175

  Lu, Luo ^a   Yang, Kuo Shu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT   (Taiwan)

^b Fo Guang College of Humanities and Social Sciences   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bicultural self; Traditional Chinese self; Western self

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750538685     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2006.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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