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A landmark collection of both theory and applications in cross-cultural psychology, Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology offers a new and revealing perspective--the Asian sociocultural context. This team of notable international contributors offers rich source material on a wide range of compelling issues, among them, the impact of culture on socialization and development of the self, cognitive and achievement processes, and cross-cultural adjustment. A cross-cultural examination of entrepreneurship, unemployment, and aging also augments this valuable compilation. Taken together, the chapters reveal that for a more complete understanding of human nature, and for planned intervention to solve problems, the sociocultural context must be taken into serious consideration. Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology is an important resource for both researchers and students in cross-cultural psychology, personality and developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and sociology as well as practitioners working in multicultural contexts in the wide range of human services.