Personal value orientations as mediated predictors of mental health: A three-culture study of Chinese, Russian, and German university students

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 8-17

  Maercker, Andreas ^a   Chi Zhang, Xiao ^b   Gao, Zhihua ^c   Kochetkov, Yakov ^d   Lu, Shan ^e   Sang, Zhiqin ^f   Yang, Shaoqing ^c   Schneider, Silvia ^b   Margraf, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry   (Russian Federation)

^e CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross cultural psychology; Descriptive survey study; Mental health; Personal values; Value orientations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920625497     PISSN: 16972600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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