The Importance of Psychological Traits

A Cross-Cultural Study

• Author(s): John E. Williams, Robert C. Satterwhite, José L. Saiz,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 193
• ISBN_10: 0306471523
  ISBN_13: 9780306471520
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / Clinical Psychology , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Psychology / Personality , Psychology / Applied Psychology ,

Description:... 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.