Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

1. Introduction

   1. Psychometric Approaches to Intergroup Comparison: The Problem of Equivalence

      • Ype H. Poortinga

      Pages 237-257

   2. Stalking the Wily Emic: Alternatives to Cross-Cultural Measurement

      • Joseph E. Trimble, Walter J. Lonner, Jerry D. Boucher

      Pages 259-273

   3. The Structure, Organization, and Correlates of Cognitive Speed and Accuracy: A Cross-Cultural Study Using Computerised Tests

      • J. M. Verster

      Pages 275-292

   4. Conditional Item Bias Methods

      • Gideon J. Mellenbergh

      Pages 293-302

   5. Continuous Work Tests: Their Scope in Cross-Cultural Contexts

      • H. Reuning

      Pages 303-318

   6. Measurement of Spatial Abilities: Some Comments Prompted by Cross-Cultural Studies

      • J. B. Deregowski

      Pages 319-333

2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-335

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   2. The Cross-Cultural Use of Personality Tests

      • Paul Kline

      Pages 337-352

   3. A Dynamic Research Strategy for Universals in the Motivation and Personality Domain

      • D. Munro

      Pages 353-364

   4. The Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Personality Construct Measures

      • Douglas N. Jackson, George M. Guthrie, Estella Astilla, Bettye Elwood

      Pages 365-375

   5. Personality Measurement: Do the Scales Have Similar Meanings in Another Culture?

      • George M. Guthrie, Douglas N. Jackson, Estella Astilla, Bettye Elwood

      Pages 377-392

   6. A Measurement Study of Test Anxiety Emphasizing its Evaluative Context

      • Knut A. Hagtvet

      Pages 393-405

   7. Antecedents to Emotions Across Cultures

      • Jerry D. Boucher

      Pages 407-420

   8. The Cross-Cultural Assessment of Coping Skills

      • Robert Peck

      Pages 421-431

   9. Students’ Perception of What Causes their Achievement in School

      • Gina Ortar

      Pages 433-444

   10. Comparisons of Self-Concept Scores of Children in America and in Taiwan

       • Ernest D. McDaniel, Wanye Soong

       Pages 445-455

3. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 457-457

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   2. The Cross-Cultural Assessment of Normative Concepts: Some Considerations on the Affinity between Methodological Approaches and Preferred Theories

      • Lutz H. Eckensberger, Peter Burgard

      Pages 459-480

   3. Assessment of Values and Attitudes in the Study of Fertility: Problems and Prospects

      • Cigdem Kagitcibasi

      Pages 481-493

   4. The Use of Ambiguous Photographic Stimuli in the Assessment of Attitudes to Children and Family Size in South Asia

      • John Liggett

      Pages 495-502

Against the background of NATO's Istanbul conference of 1971 (Cronbach and Drenth, 1972), the Kingston conference shows that great progress has been made by the community of cross-cultural psychologists. The progress is as much in the psychology of the investigators as in the investigations being reported. In 1971 the investigators were mostly strangers to each other. Behind their reports lay radically different field experiences, disparate research traditions, and mutually contradictory social ideals. Istanbul was not a Tower of Babel, but participants did speak past each other. Now a community exists, thanks to the meetings of NATO and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, to flourishing journals, and the Triandis et a1. (1980) Handbook. The members tend to know each other, can anticipate how their formu­ lations will fallon the ears of others, and accept superficially divergent approaches as making up a collective enterprise. Ten years ago there was open conflict between those who con­ fronted exotic peoples with traditional tests and applied tradi­ tional interpretations to the responses, and the relativists who insisted that tasks, test taking, and interpretation cannot be "standardized" in the ways that matter. Today's investigators are conscious of the need to revalidate tasks carried into alien settings; they often prefer to redesign the mode of presentation and to attune the subject to test taking. They face the diffi­ culties squarely and recognize that even the best means of coping are only partially successful.

• Hunting
• Motivation
• behavior
• environment
• fertility
• iron
• perception
• psychology
• social behavior
• society
• structure

• Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth, Devon, UK

  S. H. Irvine

• Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

  John W. Berry

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