Differences in American and Korean evaluations of one-year age differences

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 349-364

  Lim, Tae Seop ^a   Giles, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cross cultural gerontology; Holism; Intergenerational communication; Relativistic culture; South Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249150546     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jmmd496.1     Document Type: Article

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