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Jian Yang
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 14
Citations - 946
Jian Yang is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Personality Assessment Inventory. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 12 publications receiving 863 citations. Previous affiliations of Jian Yang include Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & University Health Network.
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The cultural shaping of depression: Somatic symptoms in China, psychological symptoms in North America?
Andrew G. Ryder,Jian Yang,Xiongzhao Zhu,Shuqiao Yao,Jinyao Yi,Steven J. Heine,R. Michael Bagby +6 more
TL;DR: Psychological symptom effects were larger and more consistent than somatic symptom effects; because other studies have confirmed the ubiquity of somatic presentations worldwide, these results suggest that Western psychologization may be more culturally specific than is Chinese somatization.
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Cross-cultural personality assessment in psychiatric populations: The NEO-PI—R in the People's Republic of China.
TL;DR: The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) as mentioned in this paper is a measure of the 5-factor model developed on volunteer samples in the United States and was used for assessment of personality among Chinese psychiatric patients.
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The Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Axis-II Constructs: An Evaluation of Two Personality Disorder Assessment Instruments in the People's Republic of China
TL;DR: Examination of Chinese adaptations of Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire and Personality Disorders Interview suggested that conceptions and measures of DSM-IV personality disorders are cross-culturally generalizable to Chinese psychiatric populations.
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Somatization vs. Psychologization of Emotional Distress: A Paradigmatic Example for Cultural Psychopathology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the developing area of cultural psychopathology, an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on the ways in which cultural factors contribute to the experience and expression of psychological distress.
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Adult Age Differences in Personality Traits in the United States and the People's Republic of China
TL;DR: An FFM Age-Relatedness Index based on American data accurately predicted CPI age correlations not only in the US but also in the PRC sample, consistent with the hypothesis that there are universal intrinsic maturational changes in personality.