Standard Back-Translation Procedures May Not Capture Proper Emotion Concepts: A Case Study of Chinese Disgust Terms

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 703-711

  Barger, Brian ^a   Nabi, Robin ^b   Hong, Liang Yu ^c  

^a US Peace Corps   (China)

^b ZUNYI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Backtranslation; Cross cultural; Disgust; Emotion; Translation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN;

CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 78249268241     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021453     Document Type: Article

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