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Allik, Jüri, Realo, Anu and McCrae, Robert R. (2023) Conceptual and methodological issues in the study of the personality-and-culture relationship. Frontiers in Psychology, 14 . 1077851. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1077851 ISSN 1664-1078.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1077851
Abstract
Culture-and-personality studies were central to social science in the early 20th century and have recently been revived (as personality-and-culture studies) by trait and cross-cultural psychologists. In this article we comment on conceptual issues, including the nature of traits and the nature of the personality-and-culture relationship, and we describe methodological challenges in understanding associations between features of culture and aspects of personality. We give an overview of research hypothesizing the shaping of personality traits by culture, reviewing studies of indigenous traits, acculturation and sojourner effects, birth cohorts, social role changes, and ideological interventions. We also consider the possibility that aggregate traits affect culture, through psychological means and gene flow. In all these cases we highlight alternative explanations and the need for designs and analyses that strengthen the interpretation of observations. We offer a set of testable hypotheses based on the premises that personality is adequately described by Five-Factor Theory, and that observed differences in aggregate personality traits across cultures are veridical. It is clear that culture has dramatic effects on the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors from which we infer traits, but it is not yet clear whether, how, and in what degree culture shapes traits themselves.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Personality, Culture | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Frontiers in Psychology | ||||||
Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation | ||||||
ISSN: | 1664-1078 | ||||||
Official Date: | 28 March 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||||
Article Number: | 1077851 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1077851 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 March 2024 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 March 2024 | ||||||
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