Review article
Contemporary Approaches to Cross-Cultural Research of Personality
Iris MARUŠIĆ
Abstract
Cross-cultural research has in recent years become one of
the central topics of personality psychology. According to
numerous authors such research has been given new
momentum by the appearance of the Big-Five personality
model whose development and promotion has been
contributed to by researchers from many countries. An array
of data speaking in favour of the cultural universality of the
five dimensions proposed, as well as the possibility of their
being validly measured in different cultures encouraged
considerable cross-cultural comparison within the approach
called today cross-cultural personality psychology based on
personality traits. According to McCrae (2000), this research
can be divided into three levels: the transcultural level,
dealing with universal traits, intercultural level, dealing with
cultural differences, and intracultural level engaged in
culturally specific expressions of certain traits. The second
very important approach is cultural psychology, which
questions the western concept of personality traits itself and
represents the viewpoint that culture and personality are
inseparable. Today's trends of development indicate that
cross-cultural personality psychology will probably offer in
the future a synthesis of these two approaches as well as new
solutions to methodological limitations in this increasingly
important research area.
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Hrčak ID:
19666
URI
Publication date:
31.10.2002.
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