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12 - Psychological Assessment In and Over Time: Challenges of Assessing Psychological Constructs and Processes in Cultural Dynamics

from Part 3 - Culture and Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

By
Yoshihisa Kashima
Edited by
Michael Bender  and
Byron G. Adams
Michael Bender
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Byron G. Adams
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Summary

Cross-cultural methodology has made significant progress. Yet, research methodology is in part a response to the challenges posed by research agendas given the intellectual and technological resources available at the time. Just as the contemporary achievements in cross-cultural research methodology are a response to the necessity of the synchronic cross-cultural research in the globalizing world of the late 20th century, the changing cultural landscape of the early 21st century demands a diachronic research agenda – cross-temporal research of psychological phenomena in human populations. Meaning equivalence and autocorrelation are highlighted as major challenges to both synchronic and diachronic approaches in cross-cultural psychology. Researchers need to meet these challenges in the future.

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cross-cultural psychologycross-cultural research methodcross-temporal researchcultural dynamicsautocorrelationGalton’s problem
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Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology , pp. 255 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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