Subjective and Objective Hierarchies and Their Relations to Psychological Well-Being: A U.S./Japan Comparison

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 855-864

  Curhan, Katherine B ^a   Levine, Cynthia S ^a   Markus, Hazel Rose ^a   Kitayama, Shinobu ^b   Park, Jiyoung ^b   Karasawa, Mayumi ^c   Kawakami, Norito ^d   Love, Gayle D ^e   Coe, Christopher L ^e   Miyamoto, Yuri ^e   Ryff, Carol D ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

culture and self; culture ethnicity; emotion; hierarchy; interdependence; social status; well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910069210     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614538461     Document Type: Article

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