National personality characteristics: II. Adaption-innovation in Canadian, American, and British samples.

Publisher: SAGE Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0376475 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0033-2941 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00332941 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Rep Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2016- : Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE
Original Publication: Louisville, Ky. : Southern Universities Press,

Adaptation, Psychological* ; Culture* ; Personality Inventory*; Personality Disorders/*diagnosis ; Personality Disorders/*epidemiology; Adolescent ; Adult ; Canada/epidemiology ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Reproducibility of Results ; Risk-Taking ; United Kingdom/epidemiology ; United States/epidemiology

On the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory 1,106 Canadians scored as more adaptive than American and British standardization samples. Means for Canadian females and males were congruent with those in national samples from six other countries.

Comment in: Psychol Rep. 2005 Aug;97(1):107-8. (PMID: 16279311)

Date Created: 20030404 Date Completed: 20030425 Latest Revision: 20191210

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10.2466/pr0.2003.92.1.21

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