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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Biculturalism"”.
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Biculturalism and Identity in Contemporary Gullah Families
… of racism on identity and its relationship to biculturalism was discussed. Biculturalism appeared to be strongly related to survival as well as being an integral part of the participants' identities.
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Development of the American Indian Biculturalism Inventory - Northern Plains
… data for the refining of the American Indian Biculturalism Inventory-Northern Plains (AIBI-NP). The AIBI-NP was designed to measure participants perceived level of cultural identification within both American Indian and Majority Culture perspectives.</p><p>Results of Factor and Item Analyses …
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Biculturalism in post-secondary aboriginal education : an Inuit example
This study surveys a group of first semester post secondary (CEGEP) Inuit students living and studying outside their home communities in the Montreal area. It sheds light on their social and academic adaptation to Southern Canadian post secondary education and society by addressing their own …
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Do Multicultural Experiences and Biculturalism Promote Creativity in International Students?
… creativity and the variables that contribute to biculturalism (i.e. multilingualism, country of origin's cultural orientation, time lived in the U.S). The link between creativity achievements as a result of proper adjustment (i.e. acculturative stress, GPA, social support, multicultural campus …
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Biculturalism And Native American College Students' Performance On The WAIS-III
… for future research to examine the effects of Biculturalism on IQ performance in an environment that may be more generalizable. More research needs to be conducted to learn how Biculturalism can impact IQ performance on assessment measures.</p>
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The Effect of Biculturalism on Depression in Northern Plains Native American College Students
… of this study was to examine the effect of biculturalism on depression in a propsed sample of 52 Northern Plains Native American College students (32 female, 20 male). This study tested the applicability of the Orthogonal Theory of Biculturalism (Oetting and Beauvais, 1992). Subjects …
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Convergent And Discriminant Validity of Biculturalism And Depression Among Northern Plains American Indians
… order to further develop the Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory-Revised into a more valid and reliable research instrument for providing data regarding cultural orientation and identification among Northern Plains American Indians, convergent and discriminant validity was investigated. …
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The Impact Of Biculturalism On Human Learned Helplessness With Northern Plains Native Americans
… ethnicity and appearance. Participant level of biculturalism was assessed using the Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory (NPBI), a 30 item questionnaire which assesses the degree of cultural competence on two orthogonally related cultural dimensions. Learned helplessness effects were inferred …
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Development of Biculturalism In Cross-Cultural Managers In Multinational Corporations: A Cultural Participation Approach
… and to coordinate culturally diverse subunits. Biculturalism, understood as the internalization of two cultural meaning systems, addresses this issue by focusing on how individuals use and cognitively manage two cultures. Building on research on cultural-cognition in sociology, this dissertation …
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The Effect Of Biculturalism On Self-Esteem In Northern Plains Native American College Students
… of this study was to examine the effect of biculturalism on self esteem in a sample of 51 Northern Plains Native American college students (29 females, 22 males). Subjects completed the Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory (NPB1; Allen & French, 1994) and the Index of Self-Esteem (ISE; …
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Social Attention in Diverse Social Worlds: Biculturalism, Racial Diversity, and Regional Culture Shape Gaze Cueing Behaviour
… context). In this dissertation, I unpack how biculturalism, racial diversity, and regional cultures can influence the extent to which gaze cueing from a focal gaze is interrupted by gazes in the social context. This dissertation uses a multi-gaze cueing task, in which a central foreground gaze …
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Convergent and discriminate validity of acculturation and eating disorders measures in Northern Plains Native Americans
… particular. Similarly, the Orthogonal Theory of Biculturalism (Oetting & Beauvais, 1990) suggests those more Bicultural minority-culture members (i.e. culturally competent in both realms) will experience greater life success, less psychopathology, and better physical health. Despite a great deal …
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Developing a framework for researching ethnicity and multiculturalism in New Zealand
… exists alongside the country’s constitutional biculturalism, it is argued that the de facto version of multiculturalism exhibits the characteristics of commercial and conservative multiculturalisms which fail to address the problem of racism. A liberal form of multiculturalism, it is …
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Bicultural Development of Students in a Dual Language Program
… their perceptions on their current level of biculturalism and the extent to which their participation in the dual language program shaped it. The results of this study revealed that biculturalism is a possible outcome for dual language students. Through the implementation of a Bicultural …
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SCREAM IF YOU CAN
… themes of family, trauma, and perseverance. Biculturalism and disability are explored alongside the use of education to make a better life for oneself.</p>
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Investigating Social Mobility: Cultural Frames and Cultural Frame Switching in First-Generation College Students
… social classes 1) experience social class biculturalism, and 2) engage in social class cultural frame switching. I explore these questions using first-generation college students (FGs), who move from working-class communities into middle-class universities. Studies 1-2b document social …
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Culture and collaborative conservation? Inter-cultural difference and the Maungatautari Project
… the role of sociocultural difference and biculturalism in the Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain project, a multi-stakeholder community-based biodiversity conservation project in the Waikato region of New Zealand’s North Island. In the project, Mana Whenua (local indigenous Māori groups) and …
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Construct Validation of the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites Scale for Ashkenazic Jews in the United States
… descent) American Jews. While Jewish-American biculturalism has been explored at length, there is a dearth of psychological research on Jewish-White biculturalism (Langman, 1999). Furthermore, the literature has yet to explore the impact of Jewish religious diversity on Ashkenazic-American …
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