Ethnicity and Contemporary American Culture: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Horizontal-Vertical Individualism-Collectivism

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-222

  Vargas, Jose H ^a   Kemmelmeier, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural orientation; ethnicity race; horizontal vertical individualism collectivism; meta analysis; sociohistory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869126518     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022112443733     Document Type: Article

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