Acculturation of Personality: A Three-Culture Study of Japanese, Japanese Americans, and European Americans

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 701-718

  Güngör, Derya ^a   Bornstein, Marc H ^b   De Leersnyder, Jozefien ^a   Cote, Linda ^b,c   Ceulemans, Eva ^a   Mesquita, Batja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acculturation; cultural fit; Japanese Americans; personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878769869     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022112470749     Document Type: Article

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