Cultural differences in estimation of other people's self-construals: Comparison of Korea and USA

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 208-213

  Park, Hee Sun ^a   Ahn, Ji Young ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Estimation; Self construal; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249133698     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2008.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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