Literacy, negotiable fate, and thinking style among low income women in India

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 880-893

  Chaturvedi, Avinish ^a   Chiu, Chi yue ^b   Viswanathan, Madhubalan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fate belief; Low literacy; Negotiable fate; Poverty; Thinking style

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350127946     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022109339391     Document Type: Article

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