The Problem of Metaphorical Nonequivalence in Cross-Cultural Survey Research
Comparing the Mental Health Statuses of Hmong Refugee and General Population Adolescents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2315901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Dunnigan (University of Minnesota, corresponding author), Miles Mcnall (University of Minnesota), Jeylan T Mortimer (0000-0001-9192-1873, University of Minnesota) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 344-365 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022022193243005 |
| OpenAlex | W2162639829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 15 |
The use of questionnaire data to compare the mental health of Hmong refugee and general population high school students demonstrates the difficulty of translating between investigator and subject lexicons and, consequently, of equating the conceptual systems they signify. Whether particular psychosocial variables that are standardized for a general population can be used to study the adjustment of linguistically unassimilated ethnic minorities depends on the nature of the semantic discontinuities that exist between the source and target languages. Metaphorical nonequivalence significantly affected the responses of a subset of Hmong subjects to English survey items
Classification of discontinuities · Developmental psychology · Equating · Ethnic group · Geography · Linguistics · Population · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Refugee · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Computer Science · Demography · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2020 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |