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Article: Cross-cultural studies of self-esteem, self-differentiation and stress in school students
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- Research in Education
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Manchester University Press Nov 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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CROSS-CULTURAL SELF-CONCEPT, SELF-APPRAISAL AND SELF-ESTEEM
For too long psychology has been dominated by North American concepts and models, which often ethnocentrically assume that the world, psychologically speaking, is like America, and that US psychological measures and concepts can be exported and applied in other cultures. Counter to these ideas, the discipline of cross-cultural psychology has emerged, distinguishing emic and etic concepts.These concepts apply respectively to psychological concepts, measures and processes which are more or less specific to particular cultures (emic), and to culturally universal concepts which have psychological validity for human beings in a variety ...