Self-concept consistency and short-term stability in eight cultures

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 556-570

  Timothy Church, A ^a   Alvarez, Juan M ^a   Katigbak, Marcia S ^a   Mastor, Khairul A ^b   Cabrera, Helena F ^c   Tanaka Matsumi, Junko ^d   Vargas Flores, José de Jesús ^e   Ibáñez Reyes, Joselina ^e   Zhang, Heng Sheng ^f   Shen, Jiliang ^f   Locke, Kenneth D ^g   Ortiz, Fernando A ^h   Curtis, Guy J ⁱ   Simon, Jean Yves R ^j   Ching, Charles M ^a   Buchanan, Amy L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS   (Philippines)

^d KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^h GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

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Author keywords

Consistency; Culture; Dialecticism; Self concept; Self construals; Tightness looseness; Within individual variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865764582     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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