Why Is It So Difficult to Create a Truly Global

question 25

Multiple Choice

Why is it so difficult to create a truly global measure of personality?

• A) Because the different languages in different cultures do not always have words that can be translated equivalently and thus there is no way to measure personality uniformly across cultures.
• B) Because there are fundamental differences in the way Western and non-Western cultures understand personality that are influenced by various cultural factors.
• C) Because concepts like self-efficacy, unconditional positive regard, and reciprocal determinism have been found to have no statistical validity in any culture outside of the United States of America.
• D) Because the theories of Sigmund Freud created such a backlash against American personality theorists in the early 1900s that there has been no reconciliation of theories from different cultures.

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