Non-Western Identity: Research and Perspectives

Byron G. Adams is currently an Assistant Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. During the production of this book, he also held an Assistant Professorship at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a Visiting Professorship at Ghent University in Belgium. His general research focuses on themes of identity as a broad construct and its relation with acculturation, inclusion, diversity, and psychosocial functioning across cultures, within different life domains and lifespans. He currently serves on the Governing Council for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA) and is a board member of the committee Cultural Diversity (NIP).

Fons (A) J. R. van de Vijver (1952–2019) held the chair in cross-cultural psychology atTilburg University in the Netherlands and extraordinary chairs at North-West University in South Africa, the University of Queensland in Australia, and the Higher School of Economics in Russia. He (co-)authored more than 500 publications, mainly in the domain of cross-cultural psychology. The main topics in his research involve bias and equivalence, psychological acculturation and multiculturalism, cognitive similarities and differences, response styles, translations, and adaptations. He was the former editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, the former president of Division 2 (Assessment and Evaluation) of the International Association of Applied Psychology, the European Association of Psychological Assessment, and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. In 2013, he was the recipient of the International Award of the American Psychological Association (for his contributions to international cooperation and the advancement of knowledge of psychology)