Personality Development in Two Cultures

Thomae, Hans

doi:10.1159/000272451

Human Development

1979

DOI: 10.1159/000272451

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Personality Development in Two Cultures

Hans Thomae¹

Abstract: A selective review of studies comparing personality development in two cultures. Different aims, strategies and theoretical implications are stressed. Finally, some major issues in research on acculturation are discussed.

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Theoretical Perspectives on Chicano Personality Development

Garza

Lipton

1982

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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The vast majority of the empirical research dealing with personality development in Mexican-Americans has focused on the measurement of specific variables like cognitive style, cooperation-competition, need for achievement, selfconcept, and locus of control. While the level of methodological sophistication in cross-cultural psychology has improved dramatically in recent years, few advances have-been made at the theoretical level. Traditional theories of personality development are critically examined with specific emphasis on their applications to Mexican-Americans. The need for a theoretical model that can incorporate the interactive effects of culture and personality within a multicultural context is stressed. A preliminary framework for an interactional model of multiculturalism and personality development which can synthesize and integrate the effects of Chicano culture on the development of personality is proposed and discussed.

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Theoretical Perspectives on Chicano Personality Development

Garza

Lipton

1982

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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Stress, Coping, and Mexican American Mental Health: A Systematic Review

Cervantes¹,

Castro

1985

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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While there has been a rapid growth in mental health research which focuses on the Mexican American population, differences in theoretical formulations and consequent research methodologies have led to a host of conflicting findings. These conflicting findings are then often difficult to translate into useful clinical applications which would make clinical services more relevant and acceptable to this growing population. One suggested solution to the problem has been to develop more systematic theoretical frameworks for guiding Mexican American mental health research. In this vein a new theoretical model was presented. The model is based upon recent concepts regarding the relationship between psychological stress and consequent physical and/or psychological illnesses. This model includes some important intervening or mediating variables which may serve to aggravate or buffer the aversive impact of exposure to potential stressors. Examination of these intervening variables is of clinical importance in promoting a better understanding of the experience of stress and its relationship to various forms of psychopathology. The model allows for critical examination of those intervening variables which are particularly relevant to Mexican Americans. In addition to presenting this stress-mediation-out-come model, an attempt was made to synthesize extant Mexican American mental health research within the framework of the proposed model. This synthesis served as a basis for identifying conceptual and methodological problems in past research, as well as for identifying current gaps in this large body of research. Finally, an attempt was made to delineate new lines of mental health research which are more consistent with the postulated stress-mediation-outcome model.

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English/Japanese literal and free translation versions of the M-G Personality Questionnaire

1986

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Each Form S represented self-cultural context (SCC) and Form H hetero-cultural context (HCC). Americans exhibited social-maladjustment in SCC and personal-adjustment in HCC whereas Japanese exhibited positive, dissimulating and socially-adjusted-tendencies differently in HCC and SCC. Among Americans, personal-maladjustment tendency decreased and social-adjustment tendency increased when Forms H and S were repeated. American personality characteristic (positivism) correlated negatively with Japanese mode of behavior, and Japanese personality characteristic (cooperativeness) with Western mode of behavior. A distance (D) calculated in each subject between the profiles of the scores in the 13 scales of J-H and J-S, or E-H and E-S constituted a measure of the level of intercontextual matching of responses (ICM). Pearsonian correlations indicated that the smaller the D (i.e., the greater the ICM) of Americans and Japanese, the greater the selfefficacy for behaving in HCC. Such an ICM (or flexibility) increased through repeated alternate experiences in SCC and HCC. Americans were more stereotyped, whereas Japanese were more flexible, intercontc_xtually.

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Personality Development in Two Cultures

Abstract: A selective review of studies comparing personality development in two cultures. Different aims, strategies and theoretical implications are stressed. Finally, some major issues in research on acculturation are discussed.

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

Theoretical Perspectives on Chicano Personality Development

Theoretical Perspectives on Chicano Personality Development

Stress, Coping, and Mexican American Mental Health: A Systematic Review

English/Japanese literal and free translation versions of the M-G Personality Questionnaire

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