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Velichko Fetvadjiev

Dr Velichko Fetvadjiev

Velichko Fetavadjiev

velichko.fetvadjiev@gmail.com

Background

Velichko Fetvadjiev (PhD, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; until 2014 publishing by the surname of Valchev) lectured in cross-cultural psychology in the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand from 2015 to 2016. His interests are in the broad domains of personality, language, and values in cross-cultural context. His main research so far has addressed topics of personality structure, expression, assessment, and predictive validity across cultural groups. One common thread is the question, how adequate are the established Western models of personality, such as the Big Five, for a comprehensive representation of personality in non-Western contexts? His studies use a range of both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Areas of interest

Velichko’s current research projects address the following topics:

  • behaviour predictability and consistency across cultural groups
  • the underlying structure of observed behaviours across situations
  • language effects on personality perception and expression
  • self- and other-perspectives on personality
  • interpersonal relations in the family context
  • implicit motives
  • an integration of the domains of personality and values

Selected publications

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Fetvadjiev, V. H., Meiring, D., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Nel, J. A., Sekaja, L., & Laher, S. (in press). Personality and behavior prediction and consistency across cultures: A multimethod study of Blacks and Whites in South Africa. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. doi:10.1037/pspp0000129

He, J., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Fetvadjiev, V. H., Dominguez Espinosa, A. d. C., Adams, B. G., Alonso-Arbiol, I., … Zhang, R. (2017). On enhancing the cross-cultural comparability of Likert-scale personality and value measures: A comparison of common procedures. European Journal of Personality, 31, 642–657. doi:10.1002/per.2132

Wilson, J., Ward, C., Fetvadjiev, V. H., & Bethel, A.(2017). Measuring cultural competencies: The development and validation of a revised measure of sociocultural adaptation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48, 1475–1506. doi:10.1177/0022022117732721

Fetvadjiev, V. H., Meiring, D., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Nel, J. A., & Hill, C. (2015). The South African Personality Inventory (SAPI): A culture-informed instrument for the country’s main ethnocultural groups. Psychological Assessment, 27, 827–837. doi:10.1037/pas0000078

Valchev, V. H., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Meiring, D., Nel, J. A., Laher, S., Hill, C., & Adams, B. (2014). Beyond Agreeableness: Social-relational personality concepts from an indigenous and cross-cultural perspective. Journal of Research in Personality, 48, 17–32. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2013.10.003

Valchev, V. H., Nel, J. A., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Meiring, D., De Bruin, G. P., & Rothmann, S. (2013). Similarities and differences in implicit personality concepts across ethnocultural groups in South Africa. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44, 365–388. doi:10.1177/0022022112443856

Valchev, V. H., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Nel, J. A., Rothmann, S., & Meiring, D. (2013). The use of traits and contextual information in free personality descriptions across ethnocultural groups in South Africa. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 1077–1091. doi:10.1037/a0032276

Nel, J. A., Valchev, V. H., Rothmann, S., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Meiring, D., & De Bruin, G. P. (2012). Exploring the personality structure in the 11 languages of South Africa. Journal of Personality, 80, 915–948. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00751.x

Valchev, V. H., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Nel, J. A., Rothmann, S., Meiring, D., & De Bruin, G. P. (2011). Implicit personality conceptions of the Nguni cultural-linguistic groups of South Africa. Cross-Cultural Research, 45, 235–266. doi:10.1177/1069397111402462

Book Chapters and Encyclopaedia Entries

Fetvadjiev, V. H., Meiring, D., Nel, J. A., Hill, C., & Van de Vijver, F. J. R. (2017). Indigenous personality structure and measurement in South Africa. In A. T. Church (Ed.), The Praeger handbook of personality across cultures (pp. 137–160). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Fetvadjiev, V. H., & Van de Vijver, F. J. R. (2017). Cross-cultural research. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences (pp. 1–12). New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1294-1

Cheung, F. M., & Fetvadjiev, V. H. (2016). Indigenous approaches to testing and assessment. In F. T. L. Leong, D. Bartram, F. M. Cheung, K. F. Geisinger, & D. Iliescu (Eds.), The ITC international handbook of testing and assessment (pp. 333–346). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Fetvadjiev, V. H., & Van de Vijver, F. J. R. (2015). Five Factor Model of personality, Universality of. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2nd ed., Vol. 9, pp. 249–253). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.25067-8

Fetvadjiev, V. H., & Van de Vijver, F. J. R. (2015). Measures of personality across cultures. In G. J. Boyle, D. H. Saklofske, & G. Matthews (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological constructs (2nd ed.) (pp. 752–776). London, UK: Academic Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-386915-9.00026-7