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Showing 1 to 20 of 245 for “"Cultural influences"”.
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Capsule Education: Cultural Influences in Education Provision
The genesis of the study was an observation that contemporary culture seems to encourage consumers to purchase capsule products, such as food, holidays and decor, where the product is shaped by the provider and the input of the consumer is very limited. Anecdotal information would suggest that …
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Multi-National Project Team Communications and Cultural Influences
… satisfaction as influenced by the project team's cultural attribute of power distance. Utilizing a exploratory case study, semi-guided interview research approach, ordinal scale data and open-ended contextual based question responses was obtained. This data was gathered from United States---Russia …
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Cultural influences on coping with parent-child conflict
The present study tested the role of traditional family values (familism) on the processes associated with coping with parent-child conflict among Mexican and Mexican American college students. It was hypothesized that traditional family values would moderate: 1) the relation between parent-child …
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Cultural Influences in Representation, Management and Prevention of Illness
Due to the cultural diversity, there might be cross-cultural differences in self-regulation of health and illness. People might represent illness threat, and the strategies they adopt to cope with an existing or potential illness threat differently. However, very limited attention has been given to …
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The Effects of Cultural Influences on Achievement in Language Usage
It is the purpose of this study (1) to evaluate the results of certain standardized achievement tests given in the Selah, Washington school system; and (2) to attempt to explain why this school district consistently produced a pattern of relatively low achievement in the area of language usage.
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A new voice: Australian guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences
… a repertoire of guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences. Based on ethnomusicological research, these creative works will weave together Vietnamese social-cultural contexts and musical materials with Western art music styles, exploring and enhancing the musical-technical possibilities …
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A new voice: Australian guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences
… a repertoire of guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences. Based on ethnomusicological research, these creative works will weave together Vietnamese social-cultural contexts and musical materials with Western art music styles, exploring and enhancing the musical-technical possibilities …
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Cultural influences on farm families' responses to difficult life events
… stressful events, particularly the influence of cultural factors as identified by Salamon. This research addressed the following questions: (a) What level of distress is currently experienced by farm families?; (b) What are the differences between men’s and women’s experience of distress?; (c) …
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Cultural Influences and Negotiation: Chinese Conflict Resolution Preferences and Negotiation Behavior
… conducted in this area discusses the fundamental cultural differences between East and West, as well as the difficulties Westerners have in negotiating with the Chinese. Little was written on the actual negotiation behavior itself. This paper is focused on the negotiation behavior between Chinese …
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Cultural influences in research and therapeutic practice: a counselling psychology perspective
This empirical study explores ‘Men’s experiences of being circumcised men’ using the methodological approach of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with eight adult participants. The interview data was analysed using the IPA protocol (Smith, …
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Social and Cultural Influences on Nontraditional Students' Decision to Seek Higher Education
… study was to determine some of the social and cultural influences on nontraditional students' decisions to seek higher education. The thesis of this project is that nontraditional students are reacting to changes in the occupational structure of the United States. The six propositions of social …
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Cultural Influences on Body Size Ideals Among African American Women in the Mississippi Delta
Results: One-on-one interviews yielded 25 cognitive maps. The maps contained a total of 169 concepts with 294 connections among them. The lowest number of variables identified on a participant’s map was 4 and the highest was 11. The lowest number of connections made on a participant’s map was 4 and …
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Cultural influences in crisis decision-making: an emergency operations centre case study in Qatar
… members of a specific group. Thus, the multi-cultural nature of the case site overlays an inquiry of the human factors associated with cognition, cultural diversity, and ideological supports which are representative of decision criteria influencing individual judgement (Ramlall, 2008; Boin & …
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Exploring Cultural Influences and Moral Experiences Behind Mental Illness Stigma in the U.S. Army
During recent conflicts in which the United States military is engaged, research exposed the high number of conflict veterans suffering from behavioral health problems. Existing research primarily focuses on the individual psychological processes of those suffering from mental disorders and the …
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Cultural influences on human resource management practices; Implications for Arab subsidiaries of multinational enterprises
… of adapting human resource practices to the cultural influences on the talent pool rather than to the cultural influences on employees’ workplace practices.
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Human factors and cultural influences in implementing agile philosophy and agility in global software development
… Agile values and principles require a major cultural change for software managers, e.g. collective team responsibility and self-organisation, especially in large organisations with a strong culture of planning and centralised power. In large global organisations, this issue is likely to be …
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Schizotypy: A Multi-Country Study of Psychometrics, Socio-Cultural Influences, Cognitive Processes, and Electrophysiological Markers
… schizotypal measurement across ethno-cultural settings, examining cognitive antecedents and outcomes of schizotypy, and a schizotypal-continuum exploration into electrophysiological function. Studies 1-3 examined the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) as a measurement tool for …
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Socio-Cultural Influences on Adolescent Smoking in Mainland China: The Mediating Role of Smoking-Related Cognitions
… the interplay among multiple systems at the cultural, familial, and personal levels, but few investigations have explored the effects of multiple environments on adolescent smoking behaviors. Survey data were collected from 658 parent-child dyads of Chinese adolescents aged between 14 and 17 …
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Socio-Cultural Influences on Face-to-Face and Electronic Mentoring of New Teachers Learning to Teach
The findings showed that the teachers highly valued the mentors' emotional support and rated their assistance on classroom management, engaging student learning and teaching methods most helpful in both face-to-face mentoring and e-mentoring. The findings also showed that new teachers focused more …
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