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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Cross-cultural studies"”.
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"""Civil"" Societies and ""Evil"" States: Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Patriarchy in Post -Soviet Ukraine"
"This work articulates to ongoing studies of civil society and social organizations that examine the range of informal interpersonal practices that configure new social orders in post-Soviet countries. My dissertation adds to studies of local organizational practices, transnational interventions, …
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Maternal autonomy support and control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ behavioral regulation
There has been a long-standing debate over cultural commonality versus specificity regarding implications of maternal autonomy support and control on children’s self-regulation and adjustment. Cross-cultural studies have mainly focused on early adolescence, and the studies in early childhood are …
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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: FAMILIAL EXPECTATIONS IN THREE MULTICULTURAL NOVELS
By using the commonality of family, this cross-cultural investigation hopes to highlight some of the similarities and differences among three vastly different cultures with the hope that readers discover the ways in which their cultures are alike and different from those represented in this paper. …
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The Culture of the Reader, the Origin of the Text, and How Children Predict as They Read
… which are stored and structured as knowledge. Cross-cultural studies, particularly of children, are few, and generally focus on the subject's recall of text. This is a study in which four groups of children, Americans in the United States, Americans who lived in India, Indians in India, and …
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Help-seeking intention among college students: Cross-cultural study between East Asian international students and domestic students in the Unites States
… this finding draws our attention to the further cross-cultural studies about the reason for this discrepancy. Implications for theory, research, and practice are addressed.</p>
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Assessing the development of intercultural sensitivity gained through the domestic experiences of first year students
… and behavioral skills to aide in successful intercultural interactions. Using the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and the theory of Cultural Intelligence as frameworks, this research attempts to assess the effect of domestic experiences on intercultural competency and cultural …
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Monkey see, monkey do? An intercultural exploration of the dynamics between humans and non-human primates in a professional animal research setting
… is a novel investigation in the field of intercultural relations, exploring the values and beliefs of a group of research employees, and the intercultural competence and sensitivity these employees model in their interactions with the animals they work with. A focus group was conducted at the …
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Attitudes Toward Robots among a Japanese and U.S. University Faculty using Implicit and Explicit Measures
… However, there have been relatively few cross-cultural studies to examine Japan's robot-oriented culture, and the studies there have been tend to su er from a self- selection bias by sampling among participants who are visiting robotics exhibits or robot-related news groups. In addition, …
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The Development of Theory of Mind and Social Competence in Young Pakistani Children
… In recent years researchers have identified cultural variations in the onset of ToM understanding in collectivist and individualist cultures. However, the findings of cross-cultural studies regarding these variations are inconsistent. The major aim of this innovative research was to …
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Individualism/Collectivism, Psychological Processes, and Styles of Conflict Resolution
… al., 1991, Pearson et al., 1998) has focused on cultural groups in order to explain conflict resolution styles. The current study analyzed conflict resolution styles (using the ROCIII) in relation to antecedent variables of culture, measured by the Collectivism and Individualism scale (Thandis …
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Personality Resources for Higher Levels of Subjective Well-being and Health Promotion // Личностни ресурси за по-високи нива на субективно благополучие и промоция на здравето
… the established for the age group level in cross-cultural studies with Subjective Happiness Scale. It has been found that people with an internal locus of control feel much happier, healthier and more satisfied with life. The hidden mechanism strengthening the influence of the internal locus …
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Investigating the Construct of Psychopathy in Lebanese and American Adults
… and psychiatric populations in North America. Cross-cultural studies, mainly conducted in Europe, have shown disparities in psychopathy scores and the measures’ psychometric properties, which raise the issue of cultural factors, such as individualism-collectivism, values, and different ways of …
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The role of social robots in fostering human empathy : a cross-cultural exploration
… emotional states, and to act accordingly. Recent studies show how levels of empathy, particularly across young populations in the United States, are on a steady decline (Konrath, O'Brien, & Hsing, 2011). Although numerous interventions to address this issue have been tested, to the best of my …
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Global leadership and the development of intercultural competency in U.S. multinational corporations
… addresses the challenges of developing the intercultural competency of global leaders within the context of the U.S. multinational corporation (U.S.M.C.). This research seeks to examine how organizations develop managers capable of leading in a pluralistic work environment and the implications of …
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The perceived fairness of ethnic ties-based hiring and promotion in Chadian PSOs
… for jobs and career opportunities. Furthermore, cross-cultural studies on informal ties add to this nuanced view of social ties by highlighting its cultural and institutional embeddedness (e.g., Wasta). Hence, while research points to their constructed nature in different cultural settings, the …
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Finding oneself far from home: identity construction in contemporary US migrant women’s fiction
… ‘third space’ and hybridity, and Young Yun Kim’s cross-cultural adaptation theory. The thesis also engages with the extant scholarship on this topic. The goal of this thesis is to bridge a gap in the fields of literary and cross-cultural studies, immigrant women studies, and comparative studies, …
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Interaction in musical time
… a range of options from circular statistics to cross-recurrence analysis to various correlation-based analyses. Through a number of pilot studies, I developed a cooperative tapping setup for studying rhythmic entrainment in dyads. Using this setup, I compared human–human interaction to …
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Cultural fluency in the eye of the storm : a mediation case study
… has advocated for a more holistic, relational, culturally inclusive approach to the mediation process. Such an approach requires conflict fluency as well as cultural fluency for effective mediation. This thesis explores how the intervention strategies of mediation may be enhanced through …
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Expectations of student achievement among primary school teachers in Togo, West Africa: An analysis of beliefs and cultural values
… study was to analyze and explore the beliefs and cultural values that influence teacher expectations of student achievement in Togo, West Africa. A census was conducted of 93 teachers from the faculties of 15 Christian primary schools partnered with a U.S. based Baptist missions organization. …
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