Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology articles from March 1998

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology archives from March 1998

Scenarios for the measurement of collectivism and individualism.
March 1, 1998... Kagitcibasi and Berry (1989) identified individualism and collectivism as one of the major themes of cross-cultural psychology in the 1980s. Implicit was the suggestion that some other theme might emerge in the 1990s. Yet, the 1990s are proving...

Romance across the social status continuum: interracial marriage and the ideological asymmetry effect.
March 1, 1998... Interracial marriage and other forms of long-term, socially sanctioned interethnic relations between persons from very different levels of the social status hierarchy are relatively rare in human societies. For example, in the United States,...

Lovesongs in the United States and China: on the nature of romantic love.
March 1, 1998... To an American in love, his/her emotions tend to overshadow everything else.... To a Chinese in love, his/her love occupies a place among other considerations. (Hsu, 1983, p. 50) Two conceptual distinctions that have...

The role of culture, violence, and personal factors affecting dream content.
March 1, 1998... The question about the primacy of, and interaction between, biogenetic and cultural development of different conscious states is crucial in dream research. Cultures give different meanings to dreaming and they therefore may facilitate or...

Cultural orientation and alcohol-type preferences among adolescents in four sociocultural subgroups in Zimbabwe.
March 1, 1998... Important contributions to the theoretical rationale for conceptualising the global-local cultural dimension are found within contemporary anthropological literature (Appadurai, 1990; Chung, 1996; Friedman, 1994; Hannerz, 1992; Kearney, 1995)....

The developement of understanding moods metaphorically expressed in pictures: a cross-cultural comparison.
March 1, 1998... Pictures are common in the everyday lives of children and serve for both enjoyment and education. Indeed, research has confirmed that pictures are useful in language development (e.g., Ninio & Bruner, 1978; Whitehurst et al., 1988)....

Individualism and Islamic work beliefs.
March 1, 1998... Research on work values in a wide range of cultural settings indicates that they are key constructs in the socialization process and reflect conditions of education, occupation, politics, religion, culture, and the family milieu (Elizur, Borg,...