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Are Western tests and intervention programs useful beyond their culture of origin |
MENA Dubai 2003 Abstract
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Ype Poortinga
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Two important tools of psychologists are psychometric tests and intervention programs. The question is addressed to what extent such tools can be transferred to other societies as the one in which they were developed.
Three points are discussed:
- Answers to the lead question often depend on notions about psychological differences between cultures, currently often conceptualized in schools of universalism and relativism.
- Levels of transfer need to be distinguished that coincide with levels of equivalence of data.
- Evidence on the equivalence of three categories of variables is examined: context variables, person characteristics, and situation (stimulus, item) characteristics.
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