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Mechanisms of the national character stereotype: How people in six neighbouring countries of Russia describe themselves and the typical Russian

  1. Anu Realo1,*,
  2. Jüri Allik1,
  3. Jan-Erik Lönnqvist2,
  4. Markku Verkasalo2,
  5. Anna Kwiatkowska3,
  6. Liisi Kööts4,
  7. Maie Kütt4,
  8. Rasa Barkauskiene5,
  9. Alfredas Laurinavicius6,
  10. Konstantin Karpinski7,
  11. Alexandr Kolyshko7,
  12. Sandra Sebre8,
  13. Viesturs Renge8

Article first published online: 8 APR 2009

DOI: 10.1002/per.719

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European Journal of Personality

European Journal of Personality

Special Issue: Personality and Culture

Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 229–249, May 2009

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Realo, A., Allik, J., Lönnqvist, J.-E., Verkasalo, M., Kwiatkowska, A., Kööts, L., Kütt, M., Barkauskiene, R., Laurinavicius, A., Karpinski, K., Kolyshko, A., Sebre, S. and Renge, V. (2009), Mechanisms of the national character stereotype: How people in six neighbouring countries of Russia describe themselves and the typical Russian. Eur. J. Pers., 23: 229–249. doi: 10.1002/per.719

Author Information

  1. 1

    University of Tartu and The Estonian Center of Behavioral and Health Sciences, Estonia

  2. 2

    University of Helsinki, Finland

  3. 3

    Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

  4. 4

    University of Tartu, Estonia

  5. 5

    Vilnius University, Lithuania

  6. 6

    Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania

  7. 7

    Grodno State University, Belarus

  8. 8

    University of Latvia, Latvia

*Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tiigi 78, Tartu 50410, Estonia.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 8 APR 2009
  2. Article first published online: 8 APR 2009
  3. Manuscript Revised: 21 FEB 2009
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 21 FEB 2009
  5. Manuscript Received: 3 DEC 2008

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Abstract

Altogether, 1448 individuals from six neighbouring countries of Russia in the Baltic Sea region (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Belarus) described a ‘typical’ member of their own nation and a ‘typical’ Russian, as well as rated their own personality, using the National Character Survey (NCS). Results suggest that national character stereotypes are widely shared, temporally stable and moderately related to assessed personality traits, if all assessments are made using the same measurement instrument. In all studied countries, agreement between national auto-stereotypes and assessed personality was positive and in half of the samples statistically significant. Although members of the six nations studied had a relatively similar view of the Russian national character, this view was not related with self-rated personality traits of Russians but moderately with the Russian auto-stereotype. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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