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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Cross-cultural Comparison"”.
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Depressive Symptoms and Subclinical Vascular Disease: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
While rates of depression are similar across ethnic groups, severity of symptoms and disability related to depression are greater in African Americans when compared with other groups (Breslau, Kendler, Su, Gaxiola-Aguilar, & Kessler, 2005). Markers of subclinical cardiovascular disease have been …
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Teachers' concerns about integrative physical education: A cross-cultural comparison
… variables on teachers concerns is affected by cultural differences (e.g., working conditions). However, the theoretical implications for the relationships between concerns, personal variables, and contextual variables appears valid in both countries and not culture specific.
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Cross-cultural comparison and contrast of Americans' and Bulgarians' understanding of forgiveness
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Predicting problem-solving behavior among preschoolers in India: a cross-cultural comparison
… Indian preschoolers (N=66, mean age 54.8). The cross-cultural validity of the measuring instruments has been demonstrated. The lack of age and sex differences was consistent with results found in the U.S. (Moran, Milgram, Sawyers, & Fu, 1983) and in Israel (Milgram, Moran, Sawyers, & Fu, 1987). …
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Competitive advantage through after-sales: A cross-cultural comparison of emerging and established markets.
In recent literature researchers have addressed the creation of competitive advantage for retail firms in the context of home appliances. However, based on a review of the literature the researcher believes that research related to after-sales services in the context of home appliances provides a …
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Scientific text structure awareness: A cross-cultural comparison of tertiary students from different language backgrounds
… text structures found in scientific discourse, comparison/contrast and problem/solution are employed. Meyer’s (1975) hierarchical content structure analysis was used to analyse the texts into top, high, mid and low level ideas corresponding to main and supporting ideas. The research questions …
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NEGOTIATING FACE AND CONFLICT IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF UGANDA AND ETHIOPIA
Using Face Negotiation Theory (FNT) and its associated assumptions to guide the study, the current project addressed the lack of African centered communication research by conducting a mixed-method study in Uganda and Ethiopia regarding how culture and family socialization patterns impact romantic …
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A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON AND EXAMINATION OF WORKPLACE BULLYING IN SINGAPORE AND THE UNITED STATES
This study explored the levels of exposure to workplace bullying in Singapore and the United States and investigated how victims in the two countries coped with the bullying. Furthermore, this study assessed the extent to which face concerns (self-face and other-face) relate to the use of coping …
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Determinants of sales performance in insurance industry:a cross-cultural comparison between the UK and Malaysia
… that predict a successful salesperson, using a cross-cultural comparison of two countries: the UK and Malaysia. Besides collecting quantitative data, qualitative data on organisational, environmental and cultural factors were also collected through interviews, personal and case observations. The …
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A cross-cultural comparison of evaluation in classical concert reviews in British and Hong Kong newspapers
… indicated more similarities than differences cross-culturally. Both groups were predominantly evaluative and contained more praise than criticism; more CRs opened and closed positively; evaluation focused primarily on performance; praise was less mitigated than criticism; Booster was the most …
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A cross-cultural comparison of the requestive speech act realization patterns in Persian and American English
… of this study was to: (a) expand the scope of cross-cultural speech act studies to include a non-western language, (b) to examine similarities and differences in the realization patterns of the speech act of requesting between Persian speakers and American speakers of English, (c) to examine …
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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Parental Perspectives of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cochlear Implants
… using Spearman and point bi-serial correlations. Cross-cultural differences in HRQoL domain scores were computed using one sample t-tests. RESULTS: In this US sample, education and effects of CI domains were rated least positively. Cross-culturally, US parents rated HRQoL more positively than …
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
This study consist of a comparative analysis of the nostalgic female characters in Pai Hsien-yung's two short stories: "Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream," and "A Celestial in Mundane Exile," and Tennessee Williams's two plays: The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Beginning …
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison: Family Drawings of Japanese and American Elementary School Children in the United States
<p>The cross-cultural sensitivity of family drawings as an assessment tool was examined. 39 (13 males, 26 females) 1st generation Japanese elementary school-age children (grade 3-6), and 64 (25 males, 39 females) 3rd generation U.S. elementary school-age children (grade 3-6), both samples residing …
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Cell Phone Interface Design Preferences from the Perspective of Nationality and Disability
… study was Hofstede's (1991) five dimensional cultural model. Various studies have explored cross-cultural interface design and found some relationship of these cultural dimensions with interface design components (Choi et. al., 2005; Marcus, 1999; Marcus and Gould, 2001). This study included …
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Collective Privacy Boundary Turbulence and Facework Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of South Korea and the United States
… of family secretes. The scenarios reflected two cultural-level variables: an in-group and an out-group distinction and hierarchical relationships. The results showed that both Korean and U.S. participants perceived greater face threat when family secrets were disclosed to an out-group member than …
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Collective Privacy Boundary Turbulence and Facework Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of South Korea and the United States
… of family secretes. The scenarios reflected two cultural-level variables: an in-group and an out-group distinction and hierarchical relationships. The results showed that both Korean and U.S. participants perceived greater face threat when family secrets were disclosed to an out-group member than …
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