Shame, personality, and social anxiety symptoms in Chinese and American nonclinical samples: A cross-cultural study

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 449-460

  Zhong, Jie ^a   Wang, Aimin ^b   Qian, Mingyi ^a   Zhang, Lili ^a   Gao, Jun ^a   Yang, Jianxiang ^b   Li, Bo ^c   Chen, Ping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

American; Chinese; Personality; Shame; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMPIRICISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; SHAME; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SHAME; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL VALUES; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449121855     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20358     Document Type: Article

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