Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- PART 1 Setting the stage
- PART 2 Explanation of cross-cultural differences
- PART 3 Methods for studying culture
- 7 A fourfold conceptual framework for cultural and cross-cultural psychology: relativism, construct universalism, repertoire universalism and absolutism
- 8 About chicken and eggs: four methods for investigating culture–behaviour links
- 9 Qualitative and mixed methods research in cross-cultural psychology
- 10 Bias and real differences in cross-cultural differences: neither friends nor foes
- PART 4 The role of development
- PART 5 Concepts of culture
- PART 6 Conclusion
- Index
- References
10 - Bias and real differences in cross-cultural differences: neither friends nor foes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- PART 1 Setting the stage
- PART 2 Explanation of cross-cultural differences
- PART 3 Methods for studying culture
- 7 A fourfold conceptual framework for cultural and cross-cultural psychology: relativism, construct universalism, repertoire universalism and absolutism
- 8 About chicken and eggs: four methods for investigating culture–behaviour links
- 9 Qualitative and mixed methods research in cross-cultural psychology
- 10 Bias and real differences in cross-cultural differences: neither friends nor foes
- PART 4 The role of development
- PART 5 Concepts of culture
- PART 6 Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Though the difficulty of establishing comparability is widely acknowledged, the challenge is more often ignored than met.
(Smith, 2003, p. 69)The chapter starts from the above quotation by Tom Smith, who complained in a book on cross-cultural survey methods that comparability issues in cross-cultural surveys are more often mentioned than addressed. In a similar vein, Bollen, Entwistle and Alderson (1993) found in a meta-analysis of macrocomparative studies that equivalence is infrequently addressed. The situation in cross-cultural psychology is not much different; there is a widely acknowledged, shared awareness of potential pitfalls of direct cross-cultural score comparisons, but the sensitivity for the issue is insufficiently accompanied by tests of instrument adequacy in a specific study. It was argued in the first chapter by the editors that method issues are at the core of cross-cultural psychology. This chapter discusses one specific method issue, namely possible sources of bias in cross-cultural studies and the ramifications of bias for the cross-cultural comparability of scores. The editors mentioned in their chapter that the methodological problems of cross-cultural studies were already described seventy years ago and that many empirical researchers, methodologists and psychometricians have tried to tackle these problems. The question is addressed here to what extent we have advanced in this field. The present chapter deals with the question of how we should evaluate the current situation with regard to the study of bias.
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