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The Development Of An Undergraduate Study Abroad Program: Nicaragua And The Psychology Of Social Inequality, Ellen I. Shupe
The Development Of An Undergraduate Study Abroad Program: Nicaragua And The Psychology Of Social Inequality, Ellen I. Shupe
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In its recent report outlining principles for teaching undergraduate students in psychology, the American Psychological Association Board of Educational Affairs recommended including experiential learning in the curriculum and identified study abroad opportunities as being particularly valuable. Unfortunately, although American universities offer hundreds of faculty-led study abroad programs, only a handful of the programs offer coursework in psychology. In this article, I describe a program in Nicaragua on the psychology of social inequality I developed and have been leading for the past 10 years. I begin by describing the structure of the program and discuss my pedagogical approach and goals for …
Is There Cultural Change In The National Cultures Of Indonesia?, Wustari L. H. Mangundjaya
Is There Cultural Change In The National Cultures Of Indonesia?, Wustari L. H. Mangundjaya
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Understanding of the national culture as well as the local culture can give people an advantage in understanding and developing intercultural knowledge and skills. It is also useful for achieving a successful life in this challenging global world. In order to understand a nation’s people it is important to understand their values and culture. Indonesia consists of thousands of islands and people of various ethnicities, which consequently affect Indonesia’s culture as a whole nation. This research was done at one of Indonesia’s stateowned companies. It comprised 2025 respondents from various ethnic backgrounds such as: Balinese, Batak, Javanese, Minangkabau, Sundanese and …
Attitudes Towards Youth Suicide: A Comparison Between Italian, Indian And Australian Students, Erminia Colucci, Harry Minas
Attitudes Towards Youth Suicide: A Comparison Between Italian, Indian And Australian Students, Erminia Colucci, Harry Minas
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There is a paucity of cross-cultural research on youth suicidal behaviour. An understanding of the cultural aspects of suicidal behaviour is essential for the development of culturally appropriate suicide prevention and intervention strategies. In this study, meanings, cultural representations, attitudes, values and beliefs regarding youth suicide were explored in 700 young Italians, Indians and Australians. Participants were University students (18-24 years old) from Italy, India and Australia. Participants had to be at least second generation, i.e. both they and their parents were born in the countries included in the study. Data collection was through completion of a questionnaire with structured …
Development Of Theory Of Mind In English-Speaking Chinese Singaporean Preschoolers, Li Qu, Pinxiu Shen, Fan Qianqian
Development Of Theory Of Mind In English-Speaking Chinese Singaporean Preschoolers, Li Qu, Pinxiu Shen, Fan Qianqian
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The current study examines Theory of Mind (ToM) development in English-speaking ethnically Chinese 3- to 6-year-old children raised in Singapore, a country influenced by both eastern and western cultures. All tasks were administered in English. Study 1 investigated the vertical development of ToM in 3- to 6-year-olds (N = 65) with five tasks, including diverse desires, diverse beliefs, knowledge access, content false-belief, and explicit false-belief tasks. Results revealed that like English-speaking preschoolers growing up in the West, English-speaking Chinese Singaporean preschoolers develop the understanding of diverse desires and diverse beliefs earlier than the understanding of knowledge access and false beliefs; …
Arts-Based Research In Cultural Mental Health, Erminia Colucci
Arts-Based Research In Cultural Mental Health, Erminia Colucci
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Arts can be employed as a powerful tool to elicit thinking and discussion (thus generating and gathering data), as well as a means to report and disseminate findings. The arts have been used for decades in research and practice and they are increasingly being used, also because of a counter-movement to the dominance of positivist epistemologies. However, health sciences continue to be reticent toward embracing the application of art in research. This has resulted in limited art use even in disciplines such as Psychiatry and Psychology, which could arguably benefit most from such practices.
Building A Culturally Appropriate Intervention Program To Assist Children’S Rehabilitation After The Sichuan Earthquake Of 12 May, 2008, Melissa Gao, Daphne Keats, Shuguang Wang
Building A Culturally Appropriate Intervention Program To Assist Children’S Rehabilitation After The Sichuan Earthquake Of 12 May, 2008, Melissa Gao, Daphne Keats, Shuguang Wang
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Based on the findings of the survey and the interviews, the work in this stage of the research was to build a culturally acceptable program to aid the children’s recovery. The study was conducted in three project sites of a village, a large school and a hospital, all in the same locations as the baseline research. A group-based participatory approach is being employed to develop a variety of activities, in progressive steps dealing with children’s themes of rehabilitation in their own contexts. The total program includes a range of activities differing according to age, category, and site. To ensure comparability, …
Relation Between Self-Esteem Instability And Expectation And Motivation After Failure Among Japanese University Students, Ai Fukuzawa, Susumu Yamaguchi
Relation Between Self-Esteem Instability And Expectation And Motivation After Failure Among Japanese University Students, Ai Fukuzawa, Susumu Yamaguchi
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Previous studies have shown that people with unstable self-esteem react to failure in extrapunitive ways (Kernis, Cornell, Sun, Berry, & Harlow, 1993; Kernis, Grannemann, & Barclay, 1992). However, competitive situations in daily life often involve several tasks. Therefore, not only the relation between self-esteem instability and the reaction after one failure, but the relation between self-esteem instability and expectation and motivation for future tasks should also be examined. In addition, because extrapunitive reactions such as excuse making are not appropriate in Japanese culture, self-esteem instability may not be related to excuse making in this culture and may instead be related …
Argumentation Among Family Members In Italy And Switzerland: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Francesco Arcidiacono, Antonio Bova
Argumentation Among Family Members In Italy And Switzerland: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Francesco Arcidiacono, Antonio Bova
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The main goal of this study is to analyze to what extent family members engage to resolve differences of opinion during everyday interactions at home. Our aim is to point out the importance of the context in the analytical reconstruction of argumentation carried out by parents and children at dinnertime. Trough the examination of everyday interactions, we analyze qualitatively how argumentation shapes the communicative practices of Italian and Swiss family members and how it can foster a critical attitude in their processes of decision-making. We integrate two theoretical and methodological approaches: the first one is the model of the critical …
Work Motivation, Personality, And Culture: Comparing Australia And India, Trishita C. Mathew, Richard E. Hicks, Mark Bahr
Work Motivation, Personality, And Culture: Comparing Australia And India, Trishita C. Mathew, Richard E. Hicks, Mark Bahr
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The influences of motivation and personality in relation to performance have been examined extensively in the research literature, but there has been only limited attention given to the influence of these facets on performance across cultures. There is an increasing use of international resources and alliances aimed at better economic management in many global companies, but more needs to be known about how cultural issues are related to individual motivation, personality and perceptions of performance. Moreover, there are several theories of motivation, but the transferability of these theories to different cultures has been questioned. Thus, a model of motivation, personality …
The Explanations For Unemployment Scale: An Eight-Country Study On Factor Equivalence, Kostas Mylonas, Adrian Furnham, Emmanouil Konstantinidis, Sofia Papazoglou, William Divale, Cigdem Leblebici, Sonia Gondim, Angela Moniz, Hector Grad, Jose Luis Alvaro, Romeo Zeno Zeno, Anna Filus, Pawel Boski
The Explanations For Unemployment Scale: An Eight-Country Study On Factor Equivalence, Kostas Mylonas, Adrian Furnham, Emmanouil Konstantinidis, Sofia Papazoglou, William Divale, Cigdem Leblebici, Sonia Gondim, Angela Moniz, Hector Grad, Jose Luis Alvaro, Romeo Zeno Zeno, Anna Filus, Pawel Boski
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Explanations for Unemployment have been studied through a 20-item scale created by Furnham (1982) on three theoretical dimensions: the individualistic, the societal, and the fatalistic. In this study we revised this scale to co-ordinate it with contemporary social and economic facts and through metric testing-adjustments and multivariate statistical analysis we arrived at a 19-item scale retaining eight of the original scale items. This revised scale was statistically and theoretically valid as its factor structure closely resembled the original factor structure Furnham had described. For the second stage of the study, data were collected from eight countries and multilevel covariance structure …
Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchanges With Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, E. S. Jaya, W. L. Mangundjaya
Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchanges With Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, E. S. Jaya, W. L. Mangundjaya
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An organization’s success is influenced by its performance and one way of enhancing organizational performace is by improving the workers’ rate of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). In this regard, most research on OCB has beeb done in the West and there has been litte research on Indonesian specific OCB, even though Organ, Podsakoff, & MacKenzie (2006) have stated the frailness of OCB theory in the face of cultural differences. Consequently, Team 9 compiled a set of Indonesian specific dimensions if OCB in 2009 from both the Western (Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Paine, & Bachrach, 2000) and Eastern dimensions (Farh, Earley, & Lin, …
Worker Wellbeing In Malaysia: Prediction Of Wellbeing From Psychosocial Work Environment, Organizational Justice And Work Family Conflict, R Zirwatul Aida R Ibrahim, Keis Ohtsuka
Worker Wellbeing In Malaysia: Prediction Of Wellbeing From Psychosocial Work Environment, Organizational Justice And Work Family Conflict, R Zirwatul Aida R Ibrahim, Keis Ohtsuka
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The current study investigates if psychosocial work environment, organizational justice and work family conflict predict Malaysian workers’ wellbeing. The current study expands previous research by assessing wellbeing using composite measures of job satisfaction, life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect as well as job affective wellbeing, psychological and spiritual wellbeing. One thousand one hundred and sixty five Malaysian workers in the manufacturing sector (551 men, 614 women, age range: 18-59 years) answered questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that psychosocial work environment, organizational justice and work family conflict predicted wellbeing. With regard to ethnic and cultural differences in wellbeing, Indian-Malaysians …
Time Horizon In German Management: Goal-Orientated Helix, Erich Hölter
Time Horizon In German Management: Goal-Orientated Helix, Erich Hölter
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Business Planning can be viewed either from a long-term orientated perspective as strategic planning or from a short-term orientated perspective as operative planning. For both levels of planning, the factor of time is crucial with respect to a process-related analysis. This is especially captured in the four approaches to a continuous improvement process focusing on employees, on costs, on time, or on quality.
The Effectiveness Of Two Treatments To Enhance Academic Self-Concept Among Low-Achieving Secondary School Students In China, Lan Yang, David Watkins
The Effectiveness Of Two Treatments To Enhance Academic Self-Concept Among Low-Achieving Secondary School Students In China, Lan Yang, David Watkins
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The present research focused on investigating the effectiveness of two treatments to enhance academic self-concept among low-achieving junior middle school students, who continue their learning in the secondary vocational education (SVE) system of China. The results demonstrated that the intervention delivered in natural classroom settings significantly enhanced English self-concept, the targeted facet of the academic self-concept. Moreover, the intervention did not change Chinese and Mathematics self-concepts (two control facets of academic self-concept) significantly, lending support to the multidimensional conceptualization of self-concept. It should be noted that the improvement in English achievement among the two experimental classes was statistically significant as …
A Psycholexical Study Of Personality Trait Structure Of Hindi Speaking Indians, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Girishwar Misra
A Psycholexical Study Of Personality Trait Structure Of Hindi Speaking Indians, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Girishwar Misra
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This study adopted a psycholexical approach to uncover the personality trait structure of Hindi speaking Indians. The endorsement for personality descriptive adjectives was obtained from young adults (n=240) using a Likert-type 5-point rating scale. The principal component analysis using varimax rotation revealed a six-factor structure comprised of (I) rajasic (passion and mobility), (II) sattvic (goodness and harmony), (III) tamasic (dullness and inertia), (IV) competence, (V) neuroticism, and (VI) extraversion. The six-factor structure of personality in Hindi language has broader psycholexical space than what is proposed in the “Big Five” personality theory.
The Impact Of Social Context On Preschoolers’ Flexibility, Li Qu, Lin Shuhui Audrey, Low Pei Jun, Ng Hui Qun
The Impact Of Social Context On Preschoolers’ Flexibility, Li Qu, Lin Shuhui Audrey, Low Pei Jun, Ng Hui Qun
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The current study investigates whether social interaction without communication between partners may influence preschoolers’ flexibility. Fifty-three 5 year old Singaporean children were randomly assigned to three conditions of a block sorting task (Fawcett & Garton, 2005): playing individually, cooperating with another player, and competing against another player. To control for individual differences, before the block sorting task children were given four cognitive tasks testing vocabulary, short-term memory, and executive function, as well as two affective scales on mood and motivation. Separate one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) showed that although they performed the same on the cognitive tasks and the affective …
The Relationship Between Collectivism And Climate: A Review Of The Literature, Alfred Presbitero, Peter H. Langford
The Relationship Between Collectivism And Climate: A Review Of The Literature, Alfred Presbitero, Peter H. Langford
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Collectivism is one of the well-researched dimensions of culture that pertains to an individual’s relationship to an in-group. Organisational climate, on the other hand, is predominantly defined as the shared perceptions of employees about their working environment. In spite of the long tradition of both constructs in the literature, the conceptual relationship between collectivism and climate has oftentimes been neglected. This paper explores this relationship by presenting (1) the conceptual overlap between culture and climate; (2) the congruence between collectivism and climate in terms of levels of conceptualisation and analysis; (3) the apparent influence of collectivism on organisational processes and …
Does Tolerance Reflect A More Inclusive Self-Construal? A Comparison Of Poland, East And West Germany, Maja K. Schachner, Toby Robertson, Fons Van De Vijver, Friedrich Funke, Dorota Brzezinska
Does Tolerance Reflect A More Inclusive Self-Construal? A Comparison Of Poland, East And West Germany, Maja K. Schachner, Toby Robertson, Fons Van De Vijver, Friedrich Funke, Dorota Brzezinska
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Past research suggests that Poland and Germany differ in the inclusiveness of their “moral universe”, i.e. the breadth of the community to which people apply moral values and rules of fairness (Schwartz, 2007). It seems likely that this difference is reflected in a more or less inclusive definition of one’s ingroup. The present study investigated (1) whether there are indeed differences in ingroup inclusiveness as manifested in differential construals of the self in East and West Germany and Poland and (2) whether those differences are reflected in differences in tolerance. As expected, participants in West Germany had the most inclusive …
Transmission And Regeneration Of Sikh Self: Culture In The Making, Preeti Kapur, Girishwar Misra
Transmission And Regeneration Of Sikh Self: Culture In The Making, Preeti Kapur, Girishwar Misra
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The Sikh cultural narrative was explored using social representations in the public sphere. To this end textual analysis of newspaper articles (N=200) published from January 2003 to April 2005 was done. These analyses addressed four major domains: religio-cultural, political identity, contemporary trends, and redressing self-perception. The emerging themes evinced negotiation for creating a distinct space within the multicultural society of India. The task of putting one’s self-identity together, of making it coherent and presenting it to others as ‘their culture’, was warranted for making the boundaries of their community distinct from other existing groups. Bonding with the group emerged as …
Social, Cultural, And Environmental Drivers Of International Students’ Fear Of Crime: A Cognitive Behavioral Perspective, Lin Xiong, Kosmas X. Smyrnios
Social, Cultural, And Environmental Drivers Of International Students’ Fear Of Crime: A Cognitive Behavioral Perspective, Lin Xiong, Kosmas X. Smyrnios
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This investigation develops and tests an hypothesised Cognitive Behavioral Fear of Crime Model. Mass media reports of crimes against international students have raised public awareness, questions about racially-oriented victimization, and the need for appropriate preventative strategies. Drawing upon Culture Shock Theory, this study proposes that international students are a vulnerable group, showing elevated levels of fear of crime, perceived risk, and avoidance behaviors. Five-hundred and ninety-one international students across four universities participated in either an online or hardcopy questionnaire survey, the measures of which were adapted from related studies. Structural Equation Modelling demonstrates a nonrecursive relationship between perceived risk, fear …
A Comparison Of Chinese And Western Interpretations Of Cause, Will, And Free Will, Martin E. Mort
A Comparison Of Chinese And Western Interpretations Of Cause, Will, And Free Will, Martin E. Mort
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A cross-cultural comparison of how constructs overlapping with cause, will (human cause), and free will (human cause of a controversial kind) have evolved from concrete origins reflected by Chinese pictographs and the Indo-European etymologies of Greek written words. Cause-related constructs compared are Zhang Dainian’s 元 (yuán), 因 (yīn), 故 (gù), and 所以 (suóyǐ) and the Greek terms aitia (αιτια; “cause”), archē (αρχε; “origin”) and genesis (γενεσις, “genesis”). 因 (yīn) is said, for example, to show a man enclosed (by determinants, possibly prison walls), while aitia (“cause”) is said to be related to aisa (“fate”) and ultimately to the Indo-European root …
Development Of Theory Of Mind In English-Speaking Chinese Singaporean Preschoolers, Li Qu, Pinxiu Shen, Fan Qianqian
Development Of Theory Of Mind In English-Speaking Chinese Singaporean Preschoolers, Li Qu, Pinxiu Shen, Fan Qianqian
Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences
The current study examines Theory of Mind (ToM) development in English-speaking ethnically Chinese 3- to 6-year-old children raised in Singapore, a country influenced by both eastern and western cultures. All tasks were administered in English. Study 1 investigated the vertical development of ToM in 3- to 6-year-olds (N = 65) with five tasks, including diverse desires, diverse beliefs, knowledge access, content false-belief, and explicit false-belief tasks. Results revealed that like English-speaking preschoolers growing up in the West, English-speaking Chinese Singaporean preschoolers develop the understanding of diverse desires and diverse beliefs earlier than the understanding of knowledge access and false beliefs; …
Task Switching In English-Chinese Bilinguals: A Life Span Approach, Li Qu, Joel J. W. Low, Pei Shan Chong, F. F. E. Keren-Happuch
Task Switching In English-Chinese Bilinguals: A Life Span Approach, Li Qu, Joel J. W. Low, Pei Shan Chong, F. F. E. Keren-Happuch
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The current study investigated the developmental trajectory of 124 English-Chinese Singaporean bilinguals (41 6-9-year-olds, 44 18-26-year-olds, and 39 55-79-year-olds) with the Standard (SD), Total Change (TC), Positive Priming (PP), and Negative Priming (NP) versions of the Computerized Dimensional Change Card Sort task. Tasks were administrated in either English or Chinese. Additionally, participants were tested with both English and Chinese versions of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Separate curve fitting indicated that significant quadratic trends appeared in the local switch costs for accuracy only in the SD and the PP versions. Children had significantly larger local switch costs in all the …
Does Importing Of Everyday Mathematics To The Classroom Guarantee Better Mathematics Learning? Lessons From A Study Of Ngoni/Tumbuka Learners In Zambia, Zanzini B. Ndhlovu
Does Importing Of Everyday Mathematics To The Classroom Guarantee Better Mathematics Learning? Lessons From A Study Of Ngoni/Tumbuka Learners In Zambia, Zanzini B. Ndhlovu
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The present research paper comprises of two parts. Part I discusses the difference between the epistemic basis of everyday practices of Ngoni/Tumbuka children and the school mathematics practices in Zambia and the embedded nature of everyday and school mathematics concepts in the respective discursive practices. The second part looks at the mathematics pedagogy of Grade I and VI. The analyses show that the teachers in Grade I brought in a lot of everyday examples, materials and ideas to teach the young children the number concept, place value, concept of zero etc. In contrast, the teachers in Grade VI used very …
Ensuring Rigor In Qualitative Research Within The Field Of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Carolin Demuth
Ensuring Rigor In Qualitative Research Within The Field Of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Carolin Demuth
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Within recent years, there has been an increasing call for qualitative research in cross-cultural psychology. Despite this general openness, there seems to be some confusion about how to evaluate the quality of such research. This has been partly due to the heterogeneity of the field and the epistemological underpinnings of qualitative research that do not allow for standard criteria of rigor as in the traditional psychological research. Nevertheless, there is an emerging canon of recognized standards of good practice in qualitative research which the present paper will briefly discuss. The paper aims at motivating cross-cultural psychologists to produce high quality …
Situational Analysis From Two Studies Facilitating The Development Of A Psycho- Cultural Rehabilitation Program For Children Affected By The 12 May 2008 Earthquake In Sichuan, China, Shuguang Wang, Daphne Keats, Melissa Gao, S. Zhang, Xian Gui Yang, S. Chai
Situational Analysis From Two Studies Facilitating The Development Of A Psycho- Cultural Rehabilitation Program For Children Affected By The 12 May 2008 Earthquake In Sichuan, China, Shuguang Wang, Daphne Keats, Melissa Gao, S. Zhang, Xian Gui Yang, S. Chai
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The data presented are from two field studies: (1) a survey of 2234 current children’s caregivers; and (2) interviews with 1200 children, evaluating the children’s social, psychological and behavioural situation after the devastating Sichuan earthquake in the hard-hit Qiang ethnic community. Insights from the findings will be used to develop an evidence-based, culturally appropriate approach on the best use of cultural resources to facilitate the children’s post-disaster rehabilitation. Evidence from the first study indicated that the disaster had a significant impact on the ethnic Qiang children and their families in regard to personal loss, physical injury, social relationships and psychological …
A Qiang Perspective On Promoting The Rehabilitation Of Children Affected By The Earthquake, S. Chai, Xian Gui Yang, Shuguang Wang
A Qiang Perspective On Promoting The Rehabilitation Of Children Affected By The Earthquake, S. Chai, Xian Gui Yang, Shuguang Wang
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The Qiang ethnic minority had a population of around 300,000 at the time of the earthquake. The Qiang mostly inhabit the poorest and most socially disadvantaged remote rural mountainous areas of the Wen Chuan and Mao Wen Qiang Autonomous Counties of Sichuan. The Qiang have a continuous cultural history dating from the Diqiang groups of the Xia Dynasty (16th to 11th century BC). They have their own language and animistic belief system, and have developed their own traditional ways of dealing with disasters. The Qiang’s myth of “Bubita” (God) and the legend of “Mutazhu and Douanzhu” (a heroic story) are …
A Psycho-Cultural Program Of Research To Assist Children Affected By The Sichuan Earthquake, China, 12 May, 2008, Daphne Keats
A Psycho-Cultural Program Of Research To Assist Children Affected By The Sichuan Earthquake, China, 12 May, 2008, Daphne Keats
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Introduction: Steering The Cultural Dynamics, Yoshihisa Kashima, Emiko S. Kashima, Ruth Beatson
Introduction: Steering The Cultural Dynamics, Yoshihisa Kashima, Emiko S. Kashima, Ruth Beatson
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No abstract provided.
The Background To The Research: Cultural, Theoretical And Methodological Issues, Daphne Keats, Shuguang Wang
The Background To The Research: Cultural, Theoretical And Methodological Issues, Daphne Keats, Shuguang Wang
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The disastrous earthquake of 12 May, 2008 had its greatest impact on the Qiang people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan at the earthquake’s epicentre. Over 80,000 people died, over a million were injured or missing, most buildings collapsed and most homes were demolished under the avalanches. Thousands of children were evacuated to safety, some moved to far distant locations. The research team from the University of Newcastle responded to the plea of the Qiang leaders to help the children. In cooperation with the China-Australia Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, a three stage psycho-cultural research program was …