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An experiment on Chinese subjects (residents in Romania) confirmed our hypothesis about the
relation between the Heymans-Le Senne typology and Asian typologies. By an experiment based
on the relations male rationality-yang, female rationality-yin, male irrationality-male in excess,
female irrationality-yin in excess have been discovered the fundamental archetypes (male and
female) common for both major typologies. We conceived a psychological test, based on these
typologies, for rapid identification of the type the subject belongs to.
4028.7 Cross-cultural impact on personality and subjective well-being, Tanmay Bhattacharya,
India
Subjective well-being (SWB) or happiness comprises people’s longer-term levels of pleasant
affect. It displays moderately high levels of cross-situational consistency and temporal stability.
The paper attempts an empirical analysis of the Cross-Cultural Personality and Subjective
Well-Being of Indian and German adults. The NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae 1998) and Cognitive
and Hedonic components of Subjective Well-Being (Diener 1991) was administered. It is argued
that (a) one set of traits influence positive affect or satisfaction or dissatisfaction; (b) the former set
of traits can be viewed as components of extraversion, and the latter as components of
neuroticism.
4028.8 Self-perceived mental health in relation to culturally mediated coping behaviour, Xiulan
Han 1 , Peter Wilhelm 2 , Meinhad Perrez 2 , 1 No, China; 2 Germany; 2 Switzerland
we supposed that Chinese and Swiss are culturally different in their values, coping styles and
self-perceived mental health. The findings reveal that Swiss show more conflict between their
desired values and their coping behaviour in reality. Active influence on the stressful events is
their dominant coping strategy. Chinese coping options in different from Swiss are palliation and
searching for information which reflect the typical influence of Chinese culture. Two cultures are
different in their self-perceived mental health which Chinese are higher than Swiss.
4028.9 Categorical effects on stimulus judgment in American and Chinese students, Yiner Ya 1 ,
Shinobu Kitayama 2 , 1 Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; 2 University
of Michigan, USA
To investigate if cognitive processes involved in a perceptual assimilation effect might vary across
cultures, the author tested American and Chinese university students in the US and China
(American in the US, Chinese in the US & Chinese in China) in a category induction task. Result
indicated that all three cultural groups demonstrate an assimilation effect. Importantly, however,
this assimilation effect was largest for Chinese in China and smallest for Americans in the US,
with Chinese in the US falling right in-between. Implications for the role of culture in basic
cognition are discussed.
4028.10 The psychological research on the consumption of books of the different nationalities of
Xinjiang, Weiqin Li, Xinjiang People's publishing House, China
The research’s target nationality groups are Han, Uygur, Kazak, Mongl, Kirgiz and Sibo in
Xinjiang. The study analyses psychological factors of the target groups in the whole process of
book consumption, including value preference and mental feature of their book reading, and
behavior pattern of their book consumption. Researcher hopes to get an objective and clear
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