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Are Indigenous Chinese Personality Dimensions Culture-Specific?

An Investigation of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory in Chinese American and European American Samples

Ellen Jia-Ling Lin

A. Timothy Church

Washington State University

The cross-cultural generalizability of Chinese personality dimensions—in particular, the Interpersonal Relatedness dimension of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI)—was investigated in samples of Chinese Americans (n= 201) and European Americans (n= 236). Four CPAI factors, including Interpersonal Relatedness, replicated very well in a Chinese American sample and fairly well in a European American sample, indicating that these dimensions are not unique to Chinese populations. Lowacculturation Chinese Americans, but not high-acculturation Chinese Americans, averaged higher than European Americans on the Interpersonal Relatedness dimension. This suggested that the Interpersonal Relatedness dimension, although not culture-unique, is more salient in or characteristic of individuals who retain or identify with traditional Chinese culture. Contrary to previous interpretations of the Interpersonal Relatedness dimension in terms of interdependent self-construals, the dimension was only modestly correlated with relational and collective aspects of self, two aspects of interdependent self-construals.

Key Words: indigenous psychology • personality structure • personality assessment • cross-cultural • acculturation

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 5, 586-605 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022104268390
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