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Cultural Dimensions, Gender, and the Nature of Self-concept: A Fourteen-country Study

David Watkins Adebowale Akande James Fleming Maznah Ismail Kent Lefner Murari Regmi Sue Watson Jiayuan Yu John Adair Christopher Cheng Andres Gerong Dennis McInerney Elias Mpofu Sunita Singh-Sengupta Habtamu Wondimu
Pages 17-31 | Published online: 21 Sep 2010

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