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Interdependence As A Mediator Between Culture And Interpersonal Closeness For Euro-Canadians And Turks, Ayse K. Uskul, Michaela Hynie, Richard Lalonde
Interdependence As A Mediator Between Culture And Interpersonal Closeness For Euro-Canadians And Turks, Ayse K. Uskul, Michaela Hynie, Richard Lalonde
Ayse K Uskul
The present study examines cross-cultural differences in interpersonal closeness to different people and whether these differences can be explained by independent and interdependent self-construal. Turkish and Euro-Canadian samples of university students were asked to indicate how close they feel and how close they ideally would like to be to family members, romantic partners, friends and acquaintances. As predicted, Turkish participants scored higher on interdependent self-construal, whereas there was no culture difference on independent self-construal scores. Turkish participants rated their actual and ideal closeness with others higher than Euro-Canadian participants did. Both Turkish and Euro-Canadian participants reported feeling closest and ideally …
Women’S Menarche Stories From A Multicultural Sample, Ayse K. Uskul
Women’S Menarche Stories From A Multicultural Sample, Ayse K. Uskul
Ayse K Uskul
This paper reports on the findings of a focus group study that examines how women experienced menarche at the personal level and in relation to the larger cultural, religious, and societal environment. Fifty-three women from 34 different countries were recruited in 13 focus groups. At the personal level, menarche stories shared in this study revealed salient themes concerning feelings experienced at the time of menarche, the importance of mother’s reactions to their daughter’s first menstruation, difficulties around understanding the meanings attached to menarche by others, managing menstrual products, and making sense of formal education related to menstruation, and finally the …