Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology articles from January 1997

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology archives from January 1997

Adolescent intimacy: a cross-cultural study.
January 1, 1997... Intimate close friendships, found across the life span, make their first appearance during early adolescence. These friendships are distinct from those involving younger children. Among young children, friendship provides a playmate with whom...

Urban stressors in South Asia: impact on male and female pedestrians in Delhi and Dhaka.
January 1, 1997... Over the past two decades, the major cities in South Asia have become overwhelmed by rural migrants, rapid industrialization, and motorized vehicles. These pressures have strained the infrastructures of these centuries-old cities and have...

Testing the effects of vertical and horizontal collectivism: a study of reward allocation preferences in China.
January 1, 1997... As a cultural construct, individualism-collectivism (I-C) has long been of interest to scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Triandis's (1990) review found I-C being proposed for understanding and explaining economic development (Adelman &...

Factors of marital satisfaction among African American couples and Nigerian male/African American female couples.
January 1, 1997... Researchers have produced copious amounts of literature in the area of marital satisfaction over the past 25 years. The interest and concern in this topic are a result of increased attempts to delineate the immense variability within marital...

Sex differences in visual-spatial performance among Ghanian and Norwegian adults.
January 1, 1997... Sex differences in visual-spatial abilities, when and why they appear, their magnitudes, and their consequences are hot issues in contemporary psychology (Halpern, 1992). Despite disputes regarding the nature and definition of spatial abilities...

Observer mood and cross-racial recognition of faces.
January 1, 1997... Laboratory evidence shows that same-race identifications tend to be more accurate than cross-race identifications (Chance, Goldstein, & McBride, 1975; Galper, 1973; Malpass & Kravitz, 1969). Two meta-analyses of 14 and 18 laboratory studies...

The effects of language and priming on the relative accessibility of the private self and the collective self.
January 1, 1997... Several researchers (e.g., Greenwald & Pratkanis, 1984; Trafimow, Triandis, & Goto, 1991; Triandis, 1989) have argued for a distinction between the private self and the collective self. The private self includes cognitions that involve traits,...

Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients: A Practical Guide.
January 1, 1997... By Freddy A. Paniagua. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994, 160 pp. ISBN 0-8039-5495-6 ($38.95), ISBN 0-8039-5496-4 ($17.95). Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients: A Practical Guide takes a refreshing approach to guiding clinicians...

Acquisition of managerial values in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong. (Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, vol. 26, no. 3, May 1995)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 1997... In the article "Acquisition of Managerial Values in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong," by Philip H. Birnbaum-More, Gilbert Y. Y. Wong, and Nils-Goran Olve, in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Volume 26, Number 3 (May 1995),...