Independence and interdependence predict health and wellbeing: Divergent patterns in the United States and Japan

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2010, Pages

  Kitayama, Shinobu ^a   Karasawa, Mayumi ^b   Curhan, Katherine B ^c   Ryff, Carol D ^d   Markus, Hazel Rose ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Health; Independence; Interdependence; Japan; Self; US; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866755761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00163     Document Type: Article

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