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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"cultural study"”.
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A cross-cultural study of coping
The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of cultural factors, such as self-construal, and social beliefs, on coping for U.S. and Chinese college students. Data from 325 U.S. and 321 Chinese college students were used for the analyses. It was found that independent …
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Cultural study of Attributions of Sports Fans
Cultural differences in the attributions of sports fans in the US have not been sufficiently explored. Studies have shown that individualists have the tendency to make more internal attributions compared to collectivists (Kashima & Triandis, 1986; Al-Zahrani & Kaplowitz, 1993; Cha & Nam, 1985; …
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Gender and homosexual sterotypes: A cross-cultural study
Sexual stereotyping -- United States and Spain -- Attitudes toward homosexuality and gender.
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Gender and homosexual sterotypes: A cross-cultural study
Sexual stereotyping -- United States and Spain -- Attitudes toward homosexuality and gender.
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Dimensions of clothing interest: a cross-cultural study
The purpose of this research was to determine and compare the dimensions of clothing interest between Afrikaans female clothing and textile students at The University of Pretoria and female clothing and textile students at Virginia Tech. An additional objective was to test the validity of the …
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A cross-cultural study of prospect-refuge theory
… have been identified: biological perspective and cultural explanation. This study is developed to validate one of the major theories in the biological perspective to landscape perception-- prospect-refuge theory. The theory postulates that landscapes with opportunities to see (prospect) and places …
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Passenger Knowledge of Airline Safety Icons: A Cultural Study
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Japanese, Korean, and American cultures in their ability to comprehend icons used in airline passenger safety information. The 116 subjects were outbound international airline passengers traveling from San Francisco International …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Communication via Facial Expressions
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Customer Perceptions of Restaurant Cleanliness: A Cross Cultural Study
… were used to evaluate its cleanliness. This study attempts to investigate the customers' perceptions of restaurant cleanliness. Understanding what customers consider when they evaluate a restaurant's cleanliness can be beneficial for hospitality managers who can use the information to …
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A cross-cultural study on complaint letters : Australian and Korean
The aim of the study is to examine the cross-cultural features of Australian and Korean complaint letters. The point of view adopted is that cultural barriers generate difficulties to producing efficient and successful intercultural communication in addition to linguistic barriers. Although the …
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Paying the minstrel: a cultural study of B.L.MS Harley 913
To date no inclusive study of the contents of British Library MS Harley 913 has been undertaken, despite the prevalence of scholarly opinion attesting to the manuscript's importance. In the absence of a facsimile or edition of Harley 913 it may be difficult for others to "visualize" the manuscript …
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Two tests of perceptual motor development: a cross-cultural study
The present study is a cross cultural investigation of two tests of perceptual motor development. The tests in question, the Bender Gestalt Test and the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration are widely used clinically in South Africa despite the limited information regarding their …
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Taking Care of Heroes: A Cultural Study of Health Policy Formation
… examines the formation of health policy as a cultural process in a large federal bureaucracy in the United States, namely the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The everyday experience of bureaucrats working in the VA is used to answer the question: why does the VA fail to meet veterans’ …
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A cross-cultural study of calling between the U.S. and Korea
… studies were conducted to investigate the cross-cultural validity of the construct of career calling among Korean college students using the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ). In Pilot Study 1, three Korean faculty members and three graduate students in counseling psychology concluded the …
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Children's Preference for Compositional Balance: A Developmental and Cross-Cultural Study
… that the second developmental spurt, the cultural difference, and the gender difference are more likely emotional than cognitive.
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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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