Spanish American Customs, Culture and Personality

Consumption symbols as carriers of culture: a study of Japanese and Spanish brand personality constructs.

This research argues that the meaning embedded in consumption symbols, such as commercial brands, can serve to represent and institutionalize the values and beliefs of a culture. Relying on a combined emic-etic approach, the authors conducted 4 studies to examine how symbolic and expressive attributes associated with commercial brands are structured and how this structure varies across 3 cultur...

Personality, Culture, Language

English translation © 2006 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Russian text “Lichnost’, kul’tura, iazyk,” in Iazyk i rechevaia deiatel’nost’ v obshchei i pedagogicheskoi psikhologii (Moscow and Voronezh: IPO MODEK, 2001), pp. 119–28. Published with the permission of Dmitry A. Leontiev. Translated by Nora Favorov. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, vol. 44, no. 3, May–June 2006, pp. 47–56....

Personality and Culture Revisited: Linking Traits and Dimensions of Culture

Personality disorders and smoking in Spanish general and clinical population.

BACKGROUND There is consistent evidence about the relationship between smoking and mental health. This study compares the relationship between tobacco use and personality disorders (PDs) in Spanish adults from general and clinical population, taking into account nicotine dependence (ND), and the presence of any mental disorder. METHOD The sample was made up of 1,079 smokers (519 from general ...

Association between personality traits and substance use in Spanish adolescents.

Substance use is considered one of the most frequent risk behaviors during adolescence. Personality factors are linked to consumption during adolescence. Although there are studies on personality and consumption among Spanish adolescents, some outcomes are contradictory, and more studies including larger samples and using validated measures are needed. The aim of this study is to analyze the re...