The role of culture and self-construal in autobiographical memories of US and Turkish college students

Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1004-1017

  Sahin, Basak ^a   Mebert, Carolyn J ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Cross cultural differences; Earliest childhood memories; Individuation; Relatedness; Self construal

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPISODIC MEMORY; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTHER; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; STUDENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MOTHERS; ORIENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIALIZATION; STUDENTS; TURKEY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888011075     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.774418     Document Type: Article

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