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Foreword, Leon Jackson, Deon Meiring, Fons Van De Vijver, Erhabor Idemudia, William Gabrenya
Foreword, Leon Jackson, Deon Meiring, Fons Van De Vijver, Erhabor Idemudia, William Gabrenya
Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences
No abstract provided.
Cultural Diversity In Meta-Cognitive Beliefs About Learning: Within-European Similarities And Differences?, Marieke Christina Van Egmond, Ulrich Kühnen
Cultural Diversity In Meta-Cognitive Beliefs About Learning: Within-European Similarities And Differences?, Marieke Christina Van Egmond, Ulrich Kühnen
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Previous work on cross-cultural differences in the domain of education, has primarily studied Western (European) and Asian cultures or comparisons thereof. Current internationalization trends in higher education however call for a greater understanding of possible within-European cultural differences in the domain of learning. The current paper therefore addresses the question how culture influences the beliefs of Western and Eastern European students. The studies are based on the theory that the beliefs of students and faculty in the Western cultural context can be characterized as primarily ‘mind oriented’, whereas previous research has indicated that the beliefs of East-Asian academics has a …
Maternal Expectations Of Child Development In Two Cultural Groups In Germany, Berrin Özlem Otyakmaz
Maternal Expectations Of Child Development In Two Cultural Groups In Germany, Berrin Özlem Otyakmaz
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Cross-cultural research on developmental expectations has shown that the ages mothers expect children can master developmental skills vary according to their cultural background. This study examined the role of culture on developmental expectations by comparing Turkish-German (n = 107) and German (n = 127) mothers with preschool aged children in terms of their estimations regarding children’s mastery on 8 different developmental domains (e.g., cognitive, physical, social). Results have shown that Turkish-German mothers expected children to attain developmental milestones later than German mothers in nearly all domains. But the differences were not quite to the same extent in all domains. Furthermore …
Principles Of Test Development In Papua New Guinea, Sarah Flint, Kristen Pammer
Principles Of Test Development In Papua New Guinea, Sarah Flint, Kristen Pammer
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With over 800 languages and more than 1000 cultural groups, Papua New Guinea (PNG) provides a challenging environment in which to develop culturally appropriate psychometric tests. Consequently, few tests have been specifically developed for parallel-emic research in PNG. This paper proposes a framework in which to develop psychometric tests within PNG. Linguistic, cultural and social factors are all addressed and strategies for working within these cultural boundaries are posited. Models for translation and validation are assessed in light of the unique challenges presented by the linguistic diversity of PNG. An alternative methodology of translation more appropriate for PNG is also …
Intercultural Competence Assessment: What Are Its Key Dimensions Across Assessment Tools?, Alexei V. Matveev, Miwa Yamazaki Merz
Intercultural Competence Assessment: What Are Its Key Dimensions Across Assessment Tools?, Alexei V. Matveev, Miwa Yamazaki Merz
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Prior research has identified different dimensions of intercultural competence (IC). However, its focus remains inconsistent across different disciplines and contexts. Existing assessment tools do not focus on all dimensions of Intercultural Competence. Instead, each focuses only on a subset of the IC dimensions. To fill this gap, this study aims (1) to provide a review of currently available assessment tools for IC and (2) to identify a comprehensive list of the key dimensions of IC. This will help researchers agree on a unified definition of IC and develop a measurement of IC that is applicable across contexts and disciplines. The …
Using Perception Of Guilt To Assess The Level Of Cultural Adoption Of A Transgressor Belonging To An Ethnic Minority: Influence On Sentencing, Christophe Leys, Sarah Miller, Laurent Licata
Using Perception Of Guilt To Assess The Level Of Cultural Adoption Of A Transgressor Belonging To An Ethnic Minority: Influence On Sentencing, Christophe Leys, Sarah Miller, Laurent Licata
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Perception of the feeling of guilt experienced by the defendant is known to affect judicial sentencing. This influence differs depending on the defendant’s ethnic identity. We investigated the hypothesis that the perception of an out-group defendant’s level of host society’s norms adoption could mediate this mechanism. 64 native Belgian participants were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions, which differed in the presence or absence of guilt expressed by an out-group defendant during his audition, in a given scenario. Participants’ impression of the defendant’s social skills (warmth), his level of host’s society norms adoption, and the severity of the sentence they …
Girls’ Plays With Dolls And Doll-Houses In Various Cultures, Anna Chernaya
Girls’ Plays With Dolls And Doll-Houses In Various Cultures, Anna Chernaya
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The article presents an analysis of the historical and contemporary context of girls’ plays with dolls and doll-houses. The anthropological materials about children's plays with dolls and doll-houses help to recreate the doll context as a cultural represent of evolutional development. The archaic functions of the doll used in rituals and traditional ceremonies objectivize the historically inherent cultural status of the doll. In traditional cultures, through dolls plays children who play with their peers and older children, receive relevant information about their natural and social environment, social relationships, symbols, values and ideals of adults’ world. Dolls plays enhance mastering ethical …
Negative Acculturation Conditions, Wellbeing, And The Mediating Role Of Separation In The Workplace, Leon T. B. Jackson, Dudley G. De Koker
Negative Acculturation Conditions, Wellbeing, And The Mediating Role Of Separation In The Workplace, Leon T. B. Jackson, Dudley G. De Koker
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This article reports on the results of research which assessed adverse acculturation conditions in the workplace. Acculturation conditions such as racism, discrimination, segregation and separation were evaluated as predictors to ascertain how they affect acculturation outcomes such as intentions to quit and ill-health, both physical and psychological, of workers in the workplace. A convenience sample (N = 327) was taken from various sectors, for example retail, banking, mining, police service, and the municipality. The study aimed to test the mediating role of separation in the relation between adverse acculturation conditions and wellbeing as measured by ill-health and intentions to quit. …
High Prevalence Of Dissociative Amnesia And Related Disorders In Immigrated People, Angelica Staniloiu, Hans J. Markowitsch
High Prevalence Of Dissociative Amnesia And Related Disorders In Immigrated People, Angelica Staniloiu, Hans J. Markowitsch
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Across various cultures, dissociative amnesic disorders have been shown to be triggered by psychological stress or trauma. In immigrant populations, stressful experiences can arise during pre-emigration, migration or post-migration phase. Preliminary data suggest that stresses related to various phases of migration and acculturation could trigger dissociative amnesic disorders via a dysregulation of hormonal stress responses. These findings are highly relevant in the era of increased globalization and call for culturally sensitive approaches, in order to accurately diagnose and optimally manage these conditions in the future.
Cross-Cultural Psychology In The Rainbow Nation Of Africa – Nurturing Diversity For Sustainable Development, Deon Meiring, Leon Jackson, Erhabor Idemudia, Fons Van De Vijver
Cross-Cultural Psychology In The Rainbow Nation Of Africa – Nurturing Diversity For Sustainable Development, Deon Meiring, Leon Jackson, Erhabor Idemudia, Fons Van De Vijver
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No abstract provided.
The Role Of Spiritual Faith Healers In Reducing Or Reinforcing The Hiv Stigma: A Qualitative Study, Nkeke Lesolang
The Role Of Spiritual Faith Healers In Reducing Or Reinforcing The Hiv Stigma: A Qualitative Study, Nkeke Lesolang
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The role of spiritual faith healers in managing various conditions of ill-health has been studied and debated. The aim of this study was to explore spiritual faith healers’ understanding and conceptualisation of HIV/AIDS stigma and the role they play in reducing or reinforcing HIV/AIDS stigma in their communities. A qualitative approach, and in particular, the grounded theory methodology was used. The application of this methodology included personal interviews with eight practising spiritual faith healers in Limpopo Province (South Africa), while additional information was gleaned from the literature review. The researcher focused on the participants’ conceptualisation of HIV stigma, from the …
Spirituality As A Predictor Of Reduced Suicide Risk In A Religiously And Ethnically Diverse Youth Sample, Jennifer Kyle
Spirituality As A Predictor Of Reduced Suicide Risk In A Religiously And Ethnically Diverse Youth Sample, Jennifer Kyle
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Cross-cultural suicide research on spiritual faith as a protective factor in youth is limited. The aim of this study is to examine spiritual faith as a predictor of passive suicidal ideation in a racially and religiously diverse sample of college-aged youth. Participants (N = 243) completed self-report instruments to assess suicidality, social support, reasons for living as well as existential and religious well-being. Over 50% of the sample reported identifying with a racial group including Asian, Hispanic and Black. Approximately 81% of participants reported they had spiritual beliefs (N = 196) representing a variety of religions, including Catholicism, Judaism and …
The African Conception Of Death: A Cultural Implication, Lesiba Baloyi, Molebogeng Makobe-Rabothata
The African Conception Of Death: A Cultural Implication, Lesiba Baloyi, Molebogeng Makobe-Rabothata
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From an African perspective death is a natural transition from the visible to the invisible spiritual ontology where the spirit, the essence of the person, is not destroyed but moves to live in the spirit ancestors’ realm dead. It signifies an inextricable spiritual connection between the visible and invisible worlds. This chapter focuses on how traditional Africans conceive and deal with the bereavement process. We adopt the African worldview and philosophy as our framework. We dispute the often held view in mainstream psychology that behavior, in this case the concept of death and the bereavement processes have universal applicability, articulation, …
A Psychometric Evaluation Of The Integrity Profile 200 (Ip 200) And The Adaptation Thereof For Use In The South African Police Service, Anton Grobler, Renier Steyn
A Psychometric Evaluation Of The Integrity Profile 200 (Ip 200) And The Adaptation Thereof For Use In The South African Police Service, Anton Grobler, Renier Steyn
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Integrity is an essential element of orderly co-existance and an important facet of professional policing. The objective of this study was to psychometrically evaluate the Integrity Profile 200 (IP 200), an instrument widely used in South Africa, to assess its utility as an integrity measure for use in the South African Police Service. Although the literature indicates that the constructs measured with the IP 200 are sound, an exploratory investigation in the South African Police Service reveals poor reliability and unacceptable inter-item correlations. This suggests poor factorial validity (model fit). Subsequently an exploratory factor analysis (N = 1457) was done …
Goal-Setting And Task Performance Among Nigerian Managers In A Cross-Cultural Context, Andrew A. Mogaji
Goal-Setting And Task Performance Among Nigerian Managers In A Cross-Cultural Context, Andrew A. Mogaji
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This study assessed goal-setting and task performance among Nigerian managers. Data were collected from 521 subjects including 176 Yoruba, 147 Igbo and 198 Hausa/Fulani managerial employees in Lagos, Nigeria. The relevant scales of the 57-item questionnaire designed by Mendonca and Kanungo (1994) were used to obtain measures of the dependent variables. Mean scores in goal setting and performance-intrinsic reward contingency were highest among the Yoruba managers followed by Hausa/Fulani and Igbo managers respectively. Mean score in task significance was highest among the Igbo managers followed by Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani managers respectively. Mean score in performance-extrinsic reward contingency was highest among …
Emotional Display Rules Of Visually And Hearing Impaired Students, Anjali Ghosh
Emotional Display Rules Of Visually And Hearing Impaired Students, Anjali Ghosh
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The objective of the study is to understand the pattern of emotional display rules of visually and hearing impaired students towards different members of the society under two different situations i.e., private and public. This is to be studied for three emotions namely, happiness, sadness and anger. The Display Rule Assessment Inventory of Matsumoto Yoo, Hirayama, and Petrova (2005) was administered on all the participants. The overall expression of emotions varied from target person to target person and also from situation to situation. “Happiness” was observed to be expressed more by visually impaired than hearing impaired students towards parents, friends …
Could The Profile Of Orphans Represent The Javanese Position In The Indulgence Versus Restraint Culture Dimension?, Widya Risnawaty, Sri Tiatri, Tjibeng Jap, Sesilia Monika
Could The Profile Of Orphans Represent The Javanese Position In The Indulgence Versus Restraint Culture Dimension?, Widya Risnawaty, Sri Tiatri, Tjibeng Jap, Sesilia Monika
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Javanese culture (one of the cultural groups in Indonesia) emphasizes the importance of social norms and social consequences as a control to social behavior. The aim of this research is to study the dimension of restraint in the behavior and psychological dynamics of Javanese late adolescents, who live at two orphanages in Central Java. The participants are 40 male adolescents in the care of two public orphanage houses, with the age range between 12 to 19 years. The method used in data retrieval is qualitative, that is through observation, interviews, and drawing test. The results showed that the behavior and …
Acquiescent And Socially Desirable Response Styles In Cross-Cultural Value Surveys, Jia He, Alejandra Del Carmen Dominguez Espinosa, Ype H. Poortinga, Fons J. R. Van De Vijer
Acquiescent And Socially Desirable Response Styles In Cross-Cultural Value Surveys, Jia He, Alejandra Del Carmen Dominguez Espinosa, Ype H. Poortinga, Fons J. R. Van De Vijer
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The present chapter presents two studies examining the differential effects of acquiescence and social desirability on value scores across cultures. In the first study, culture-level acquiescence indexes were extracted from data in eight multinational surveys, and culture-level social desirability scores were obtained from a meta-analysis of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Both types of indexes were correlated with cultural value dimensions reported in the literature and with indicators of affluence. We found that affluence explains a substantial proportion of the variance in the association of response styles with value scores in all the surveys. The second study investigated effects of …
Developing Nations And Developing Surveys: Measuring Inner Wellbeing In Zambia And India, 2010-2013, Stanley O. Gaines Jr., Sarah C. White
Developing Nations And Developing Surveys: Measuring Inner Wellbeing In Zambia And India, 2010-2013, Stanley O. Gaines Jr., Sarah C. White
Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences
In the present chapter, we summarize the results of a programme of research that we have undertaken concerning domains of inner wellbeing (i.e., individuals’ feelings and thoughts about what they can do and be) as experienced by individuals in villages within two nations in the global South (i.e., Zambia and India). Results of confirmatory factor analyses for Zambia at Time 1 (in 2010, n = 361) and for India at Time 1 (in 2011, n = 287) indicated that, although we had expected seven to eight intercorrelated domains to emerge, inner wellbeing was best regarded as a unidimensional construct. However, …
Characteristics Of The Country Of Origin And Immigrant Children’S Psychological And Sociocultural School Adjustment, Maja K. Schachner, Friedrich Schiller, Fons J. R. Van De Vijver, Peter Noack
Characteristics Of The Country Of Origin And Immigrant Children’S Psychological And Sociocultural School Adjustment, Maja K. Schachner, Friedrich Schiller, Fons J. R. Van De Vijver, Peter Noack
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In many Western countries, immigrant children lag behind their native peers in educational attainment, yet there appear to be systematic differences between immigrant groups. We set out to examine (1) if these differential outcomes can be linked to group specific acculturation patterns, following similar processes to those observed at individual level; and (2) to what extent characteristics of the country of origin could help to explain differences in the acculturation process and school adjustment of immigrant children in Germany. In particular, we investigated country-level relationships between children’s acculturation conditions (e.g., perceived parental acculturation expectations and cultural practices in the family), …
Brands Of Gender And Acculturation In Immigration Process Of Second World War Survivors In Southern Brazil, Bruna Krimberg Von Muhlen, Marlene Neves Strey
Brands Of Gender And Acculturation In Immigration Process Of Second World War Survivors In Southern Brazil, Bruna Krimberg Von Muhlen, Marlene Neves Strey
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This study focused on how a migration context drives changes in attitudes and identity. We investigate the process of acculturation of Jewish survivors of the Second World War who immigrated to South of Brazil decades ago. This is a complex immigration because the immigrants who survived the Second World War were more vulnerable to experience stress of acculturation since most of them lost their families, homes, and everything but their lives. This research consisted in a documentary and discourse analysis of interviews made with Jewish survivors’ immigrants performed by the Jewish Cultural Institute Marc Chagall in Porto Alegre, Brazil. As …
Psychological Traits Affecting Both Cultural Adaptation And Foreign Language Acquisition, Timothy Dean Keeley
Psychological Traits Affecting Both Cultural Adaptation And Foreign Language Acquisition, Timothy Dean Keeley
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This empirical study goes a long way in determining the psychometric variables that predict individual differences in terms of the degree of success in both cultural adaptation and foreign language acquisition (FLA). Ever since Schumann (1978) introduced his Acculturation Model, the most well-known attempt to link cultural adaptation with FLA, a number of empirical studies have sought to determine these psychometric variables with mixed results due to the wide variation in the research methodologies applied in terms of learning targets, achievement measures, types of treatment, etc. (D.rnyei, 2005). This study overcomes the weaknesses of many previous studies. The experiment involved …
Culture Research Landscape Throughout The United States Department Of Defense, Sharon Glazer, Nina Hamedani, Kristina Kayton, Amy Weinberg
Culture Research Landscape Throughout The United States Department Of Defense, Sharon Glazer, Nina Hamedani, Kristina Kayton, Amy Weinberg
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This contribution delineates the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) regional expertise and culture (REC) research landscape from 2005 through 2011, including major research efforts and topics of study, key contributors and publications, collaborative practices, and future research opportunities. Through interviews and survey responses, subject matter experts (SMEs) in REC research noted the need for better REC research coordination, more social science expertise and personnel, and greater collaborative practices. Key contributors to REC research across the DoD are located at AFCLC, ARI, ARL, AFRL, CAOCL, NAWCTSD, TRADOC, and the HSCB Modeling program. Opportunities for future research include: (1) Validation studies for …