TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural influences on personality
AU - Triandis, Harry C.
AU - Suh, Eunkook M.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Ecologies shape cultures; cultures influence the development of personalities. There are both universal and culture-specific aspects of variation in personality. Some culture-specific aspects correspond to cultural syndromes such as complexity, tightness, individualism, and collectivism. A large body of literature suggests that the Big Five personality factors emerge in various cultures. However, caution is required in arguing for such universality, because most studies have not included emic (culture-specific) traits and have not studied samples that are extremely different in culture from Western samples.
AB - Ecologies shape cultures; cultures influence the development of personalities. There are both universal and culture-specific aspects of variation in personality. Some culture-specific aspects correspond to cultural syndromes such as complexity, tightness, individualism, and collectivism. A large body of literature suggests that the Big Five personality factors emerge in various cultures. However, caution is required in arguing for such universality, because most studies have not included emic (culture-specific) traits and have not studied samples that are extremely different in culture from Western samples.
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135200
DO - 10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135200
M3 - Article
C2 - 11752482
AN - SCOPUS:0036405938
SN - 0066-4308
VL - 53
SP - 133
EP - 160
JO - Annual Review of Psychology
JF - Annual Review of Psychology
ER -