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OSWALD

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Identify the four general issues that Chen (2008) specified as being important with respect to making comparisons across cultures in survey research.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What are the advantages of a literature review of research related to your own investigations?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

a. Problems in translation from one language to another
b. The possibility that an item does not measure the same construct across different cultures
c. Varying response styles across cultures
d. Issues of social desirability

Answer to Question 2

a. you can learn what experts in the area are interested in
b. you can get clues about how to conduct your own study, avoiding mistakes that might have beset earlier researchers
c. you can see how other researchers have defined their concepts and made their measurements



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