The Praeger Handbook of Personality Across Cultures

This important multivolume work sheds light on current-and future-research on cultural universals and differences in personality in their evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts. How does culture impact personality traits? To answer that question, the three volumes in this set address current theory and research on culture and personality in an effort to determine how people differ-and how they are alike. Detailed chapters by scholars from around the world unveil a fascinating picture of the relationship between culture and important aspects of personality. They also address the accuracy or meaningfulness of trait comparisons across cultures and the methods and limitations of research on the subject. As most psychological research is conducted on participants from Western industrialized countries, a work that includes a wide range of cultures not only fosters a more complete understanding of human personality, but also broadens perspectives on value systems and ways to live. Each of the three volumes concentrates on distinct areas of research, exposing the reader to the diverse theoretical and empirical approaches and topics in the field. Volume 1 focuses on the cross-cultural study of personality dispositions or traits. Volume 2 examines the relationship between culture and other important aspects of personality, including the self, emotions, motives, values, beliefs, and life narratives, as well as aspects of personality and adjustment associated with biculturalism and intercultural competence. Volume 3 looks at evolutionary, genetic, and neuroscience perspectives on personality across cultures along with ecological and cultural influences. In addition to providing readers with a thorough analysis of current and future directions for research, this unrivaled work brings together multiple perspectives on personality across cultures, thereby promoting a more integrative understanding of this important topic.

A. Timothy Church, PhD, is professor emeritus of counseling psychology at Washington State University, Pullman.

Volume 1 Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 Personality across Cultures: Historical Overview and Current Topics A. Timothy Church CHAPTER 2 The Five-Factor Model across Cultures Robert R. McCrae CHAPTER 3 Personality Structure and Assessment in French-Speaking African Cultures Jérôme Rossier, Abdoulaye Ouedraogo, and Donatien Dahourou CHAPTER 4 Indigenous Measurement of Personality in Asia Fanny M. Cheung, Weiqiao Fan, and Shu Fai Cheung CHAPTER 5 Indigenous Personality Structure and Measurement in South Africa Velichko H. Fetvadjiev, Deon Meiring, Jan Alewyn Nel, Carin Hill, and Fons J. R. van de Vijver CHAPTER 6 Psycholexical Studies of Personality Structure across Cultures Boele De Raad and Boris Mlacic CHAPTER 7 How Valid Are Culture-Level Mean Personality Scores? Jüri Allik and Anu Realo CHAPTER 8 Regional Differences in Personality: Causes and Consequences Peter J. Rentfrow and Markus Jokela CHAPTER 9 Bias and Equivalence in Cross-Cultural Personality Research Fons J. R. van de Vijver and Jia He CHAPTER 10 Trait Consistency and Validity across Cultures: Examining Trait and Cultural Psychology Perspectives A. Timothy Church and Marcia S. Katigbak CHAPTER 11 Toward a Psychology of Situations across Cultures Esther Guillaume, Nick Stauner, and David C. Funder About the Editor, Advisory Board, Contributors, and Additional Reviewers Index Volume 2 Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 Cultural Models of Self: East-West Differences and Beyond Susan E. Cross and Ben Chun Pan Lam CHAPTER 2 Cultural and Genetic Influences on Emotion: The Role of Motivational Processes in Gene-Culture Interactions Hyunji Kim, Khalidha Nasiri, and Joni Y. Sasaki CHAPTER 3 Culture and Motivation Beth Morling and Jeong Min Lee CHAPTER 4 Culture and Autonomy Valery Chirkov CHAPTER 5 Individual Values across Cultures Shalom H. Schwartz CHAPTER 6 Culture, Personality, and Religiosity Vassilis Saroglou CHAPTER 7 The Cultural Shaping of Life Stories Dan P. McAdams and Jen Guo CHAPTER 8 Resilient, Undercontrolled, and Overcontrolled Personality Types across Cultures Guido Alessandri and Michele Vecchione CHAPTER 9 Personality and Adjustment in Bilingual and Bicultural Contexts Sylvia Xiaohua Chen and Algae K. Y. Au CHAPTER 10 Personality and Intercultural Competence Karen van der Zee and Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven About the Editor, Advisory Board, Contributors, and Additional Reviewers Index Volume 3 Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 An Evolutionary Life History Perspective on Personality and Mating Strategies Jeffry A. Simpson, Vladas Griskevicius, Ohad Szepsenwol, and Ethan Young CHAPTER 2 Adaptive Personality Differences Revealed by Small Island Population Genetics: Testing the Personality Gene Flow Hypothesis Andrea S. Camperio Ciani CHAPTER 3 Cultural Neuroscience Insights to Individual Differences and Personality Nicholas O. Rule, Raymond A. Mar, and R. Thora Bjornsdottir CHAPTER 4 Pathogens, Personality, and Culture Damian R. Murray and Mark Schaller CHAPTER 5 Climato-Economic Pressures on Cultural Identity Evert Van de Vliert CHAPTER 6 Individualism-Collectivism: Implications for Personality and Identity Peter B. Smith and Matthew J. Easterbrook CHAPTER 7 The Yin-Yang of Personality: Implications of Naïve Dialecticism for Social Cognition, the Self-Concept, and Well-Being Helen C. Boucher and Tammy English CHAPTER 8 Cultural Tightness-Looseness: Ecological Affordances and Implications for Personality Michele J. Gelfand, Jesse R. Harrington, and Jessica R. Fernandez CHAPTER 9 The Self in Face and Dignity Cultures Young-Hoon Kim, Heewon Kwon, Minjae Seo, and Dasom Seo CHAPTER 10 Personality, Character, and Cultural Differences: Distinguishing Enduring-Order versus Evolving-Order Cultures Gerard Saucier About the Editor, Advisory Board, Contributors, and Additional Reviewers Index