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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Cross-cultural psychology"”.
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Religious Belief, Coping, and Mental Health in Seventh-day Adventists
… in 401 Seventh-day Adventists. Based on cross cultural psychology guidelines, Adventist Sabbath and eschatology belief measures were created and integrated into a religious coping framework. Sabbath and eschatology belief measures, the brief RCOPE, two social support scales, and the …
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The Effects of Individualism Vs. Collectivism on Learner's Recall, Transfer and Attitudes Toward Collaboration and Individualized Learning
… achievement between groups exhibiting different cultural dimensions in a particular online instructional environment. Variables were measured concerning the relationship between instructional environments, cultural dimensions and online learner preference. The subjects of this study were a …
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Competitive personality and work outcomes: A meta-analysis and scale development
… as it emerged in four adjacent subfields within psychology (i.e., health psychology, psychology of gender, cross-cultural psychology, and psychoanalysis). Third, I compile the most-used measures of competitive personality (most of which have not been labeled “competitive personality”), and …
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The Cultural Shaping of Depression: A Qualitative Investigation Into Afghan Women’s Perspectives on Depression
… the most widely researched areas in the field of cross-cultural psychology. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the number of people diagnosed as having this disorder has increased substantially not only in Western cultures, but also in Asian cultures. While much literature focuses on the …
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Testing the Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Using Incentivised Behavioural Tasks
… by evidence from political, social, moral, and cross-cultural psychology, less work has examined the essential nature of the two dimensions or asked why this particular two-dimensional structure organises political attitudes and values. In this thesis, I outline a dual evolutionary theoretical …
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Establishing Cultural Relevance and Measurement Equivalence Using Emic and Etic Items (cross-Cultural, Philippines, Job Satisfaction)
A basic concern of cross-cultural research is to be able to document cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes of individuals across a variety of cultural settings. This type of research involves gathering data in different cultural settings. In an effort to maintain standardization, measures …
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Cross-Cultural Study of Procedural Fairness and Disputing Behavior (Collectivism, Justice)
Research in cross-cultural psychology and anthropology has suggested that cultural collectivism is a useful dimension for categorizing cultures and that different levels of collectivism may be related to different styles of dispute processing. With subjects from Hong Kong and the U.S., three …
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Sojourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students
… an examination of theoretical frames: from the cultural shock literature, acculturative stress literature, to atheoretical studies; and from cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, to indigenous psychology. Methodologically, this study is qualitative in nature, utilizing interview data …
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
In this dissertation, I examine cultural differences in perceptions of time looking at intertemporal decisions, social norms, policy preferences, and behaviors in the environmental domain. Looking closely at the environmental domain allows for a unique opportunity to examine whether or not cultural …
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Subjective Culture, Perceived Social Support, and Adaptive Coping: A Multi-Ethnic Study of the Transition to College
… analyzed to investigate the combined effects of cultural collectivism-individualism, acculturation, and perceived social support on psychological and academic adjustment. Psychometric analyses revealed that the measures assessing the major variables of interest were reliable for all ethnic …
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The influence of individualist and collectivist attributes on responses to Likert-type scales
Collectivism and individualism are culturally-related psychological structures which have been used to distinguish people within and across various societies. From a review of the literature, it is argued that the most salient feature of individualism is valuing personal independence, which …
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Intra-individual and Extra-individual predictors of text anxiety in Indian children: A cross-cultural perspective
… study examined the nature of test anxiety from a cross-cultural perspective, with a specific reference to children in the Indian culture. In particular, the present study investigated the role of intra-individual variables (fear, anxiety, depression, and somatization) and extra-individual …
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The establishment of implicit perspectives of personality among Zulu-speaking people in South Africa
… and valid picture of personality for all cultural (language) groups living in South Africa. With South Africa's new Constitution in 1994 came stronger demands for the cultural appropriateness of psychological tests. The implicit perspectives of personality of Zulu-speaking South Africans …
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Decolonizing Psychic Space: Remembering the Indigenous Psychology Movement in Taiwan
… of the historical struggle of the indigenous psychology movement in Taiwan. It turns a critical gaze back upon the movement itself in order to decolonize it from colonial cultural imaginary. The contribution of this project is two-fold. First, on the theoretical level, it introduces a critical …
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Chinese parenting and children's compliance to adults: a cross-cultural comparative study
… regarding their acculturation and parenting. Cultural differences were found between groups in reported as well as observed parenting and children’s compliance. The Taiwanese mothers reported greater use of Chinese-specific parenting and physical coercion and were observed to use more (gentle …
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The Treaty of Waitangi and Asian Immigrants in Aotearoa: A Reflective Journey
… undisturbed possession of natural and cultural resources, and citizenship. However, these commitments were reneged upon and were largely discarded over the next century, including devastating confiscations of land and other natural resources, undignified treatment of Māori culture and …
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Lotus Pond, Bicultural Ripples: The Psychological Orientations of Korean-Canadian Practitioners of Buddhism
… and/or promote a Korean and/or Canadian cultural prism for next-generation Korean Buddhist practitioners in Toronto, Canada. I define Korean and Canadian cultural prisms based on the cross-cultural psychological framework of Individualism-Relational Collectivism (I-RC) and …