Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology

by Fons J. R. van de Vijver

Book Overview

Cross-cultural research is now an undeniable part of mainstream psychology and has had a major impact on conceptual models of human behavior. Although it is true that the basic principles of social psychological methodology and data analysis are applicable to cross-cultural research, there are a number of issues that are distinct to it, including managing incongruities of language and quantifying cultural response sets in the use of scales. Cross-Cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521758424
• ISBN13: 9780521758420
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"