| The Importance of Psychological Traits: A Cross-Cultural Study 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Williams, John E. (Author), Satterwhite, Robert C. (Author), Saiz, José L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306458896 ISBN-13: 9780306458897 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: This valuable text presents an exhaustive examination of the relative importance and favorability assigned to different psychological characteristics in a variety of cultural settings. Importance ratings in a worldwide sample of twenty countries, and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of ten, are calculated in terms of the Five-Factor Model of personality and other scoring systems. One noteworthy chapter summarizes findings from previous cross-cultural studies evaluating gender and age stereotypes and self concepts. A unique feature is the extensive set of appendices, of which two let readers test hypotheses of their own devising and provide the individual item values for the Five-Factor Model scoring system. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Psychology | Clinical Psychology - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 155.23 |
| LCCN: 98041543 |
| Series: The Springer Social Clinical Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.05 lbs) 193 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: All traits were not created equal. -WORCHEL AND COOPER (1983, p. 180) This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance ofdifferent psychological traits in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. While the work is devoted primarily to professionals and advanced students in the social sciences, the relatively nontechnical style - ployed should make the book comprehensible to anyone with a general grasp of the concepts and strategies ofempirical behavioral science. The project grew out of discussions between the first author and third author while the latter was a graduate student at Wake Forest University, U.S.A., in 1990. The third author, a native of Chile, was studying person-descriptive adjectives composing the stereotypes - sociatedwiththe Chilean aboriginal minority knownas Mapuche (Saiz &Williams, 1992). Asweexaminedthe adjectives usedinthisstudy, it was clear that they differed in favorability and also on another dim- sionwhichwe latertermed "psychologicalimportance," i.e., the degree to which adjectives reflected more "central," as opposed to more "- ripheral,"personality characteristics. More important descriptors were those which seemed more informative or diagnostic ofwhat a person "wasreally like"and, hence, might be ofgreater significance in und- standing and predicting an individual's behavior. |