Cultural self-construals of Mexican, Spanish, and Danish college students: Beyond independent and interdependent self

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 471-477

  Santamaría, Andrés ^a   de la Mata, Manuel L ^a   Hansen, Tia G B ^b   Ruiz, Lucía ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c University of Tamaulipas   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Culture; Independent self; Interdependent self; Relatedness; Self description; TST

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950987733     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022109359694     Document Type: Article

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