Are indigenous Chinese personality dimensions culture-specific? An investigation of the Chinese personality assessment inventory in Chinese American and European American samples

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 586-605

  Lin, Ellen Jia Ling ^a,b   Church, A Timothy ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Cross cultural; Indigenous psychology; Personality assessment; Personality structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344712993     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022104268390     Document Type: Article

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