Cross-cultural generalizability of the personality and role identity structural model (prism): Implications for trait and cultural psychology

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 894-907

  Ching, Charles M ^a   Church, A Timothy ^a   Katigbak, Marcia S ^a   Locke, Kenneth D ^b   Vargas Flores, José de Jesús ^c   Ibáñez Reyes, Joselina ^c   Morio, Hiroaki ^d   Wenmei, Sun ^e   Mastor, Khairul A ^f   Roslan, Nurul A ^f   Zhang, Hengsheng ^g   Shen, Jiliang ^g   Alvarez, Juan M ^a   Ortiz, Fernando A ^h  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextualized trait measures; Cultural psychology; Personality and Role Identity Structural Model; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885045379     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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