Fitting in or Sticking Together: The Prevalence and Adaptivity of Conformity, Relatedness, and Autonomy in Japan and Turkey

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1374-1389

  Güngör, Derya ^a   Karasawa, Mayumi ^b   Boiger, Michael ^a   Dinçer, Duygu ^c   Mesquita, Batja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

autonomy; conformity; cultural models of agency; face culture; honor culture; Japanese culture; relatedness; self construal; Turkish culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906726543     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022114542977     Document Type: Article

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