1. THE CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE IN ROMANIAN PSYCHOLOGY.
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Van de VIJVER, Alfonsius Josephus Rachel
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PSYCHOLOGICAL research , *BINARY principle (Linguistics) , *CROSS-cultural studies , *SELF-evaluation - Abstract
An overview is presented of issues relevant for cross-cultural research in Romanian psychology. It is first observed that Romania is not well presented in large-scale cross-cultural studies such as studies on (workrelated) values and that the scarce data do not present a consistent picture. The paper then continues by presenting relevant topics for the fledgling cross-cultural research in psychology in Romania. The first is the need to go beyond the emic--etic dichotomy; the second is the seemingly ubiquitous presence of response styles in self-reports in cross-cultural studies; the third refers to acculturation psychology. It is concluded that cross-cultural psychology is relevant for three domains in cross-cultural psychology in Romania: the place of Romania in the psychological map of the world, Romanians in the Diaspora, and diversity (multiculturalism) within Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016