Measurement Issues across Different Cultures

Videoconferencing across cultures - a conceptual framework for floor control issues

Assessment of psychopathology across and within cultures: issues and findings.

Research based information on the impact of culture on psychopathology is reviewed, with particular reference to depression, somatization, schizophrenia, anxiety, and dissociation. A number of worldwide constants in the incidence and mode of expression of psychological disorders are identified, especially in relation to schizophrenia and depression. The scope of variation of psychopathological ...

Testing the measurement equivalence of personality adjective items across cultures

Although previous research has examined cross-cultural differences in personality, many of these studies neglected to first establish that the measures being used were equivalent in meaning across cultures. Using samples of Chinese, Greek, and American respondents, the measurement equivalence of the Big Five Mini-Markers [Saucier, G. (1994). Mini-markers: A brief version of Goldberg’s unipolar ...

The Effects of Fictitious Customer Testimonials across Different Cultures

Publishing customer testimonials has become a popular technique to promote online businesses and establish reputation. However, the majority of the research focusing on customer testimonials as a mechanism for boosting a website’s trustworthiness has been conducted within North America. Thus, relatively little is known about how customer testimonials influence perceived deception and trust amon...

Allik Personality Dimensions across Cultures Personality Dimensions across Cultures

In order to generalize the dimensional structure of personality—relatively independent groups of covarying traits—across languages and cultures, a large number of cultures must be studied. Until recently only a few worldwide personality datasets have been available. The first large–scale studies indicate that the pattern of covariation between personality traits is universal and is relatively e...