Showing papers in "International Journal of Intercultural Relations in 1990"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried empirically to distinguish psychological and sociocultural forms of adjustment during the process of cross-cultural transitions by using multiple regression analysis to construct predictive models of psychological adjustment.

TL;DR: A review of the literature looks at recent definitions of such terms as Adjustment, Adaptation, Acculturation, Assimilation, and Effectiveness as discussed by the authors, including the ability to communicate, ability to establish and maintain relationships, interaction management, orientation to knowledge, world view, cultural empathy, linguistic ability, flexibility, a realistic view of the target culture and organization skills.

TL;DR: This article found that 40% of students avoid NNSTA instructed classes when they perceived high levels of foreign accentedness and judged speakers to be poor teachers, while the other 30% judged them to be good teachers.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the possible relationship of academic achievement, drop-out rates, and aspects of social adjustment among international students who have participated in a peer-pairing program compared to matched samples who did not.

TL;DR: In this article, Gudykunst and Hammer generated a communication-based theory to explain intercultural adaptation and empirically tested two assumptions of the theory: Assumption 3 (the reduction of cognitive uncertainty and affective anxiety exert independent influences on adaptation; and Assumption 4 (reduction of uncertainty and anxiety are necessary and sufficient conditions for adaptation).

TL;DR: In this article, the specific relationships between expectations, satisfaction, and intent to leave for a sample of American expatriates in Japan were tested, and they found that job role clarity and overmet expectations about the general environment were positive predictors of general satisfaction.

TL;DR: The authors investigates empirically the problems with family and friends, in particular, and daily life, in general, that confront foreign students following their sojourn at an American campus following an extended stay in another culture is generally assumed to be both problematic and painful.

TL;DR: A series of semistructured interviews was used to identify critical cultural variables affecting the forms of apologies in both countries as discussed by the authors, and these variables were incorporated into a Form of Apology Questionnaire.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at how knowledge of stress research can benefit overseas adaptation and effectiveness and place particular emphasis on the physiological aspect of stress and the implications for health and well-being in an overseas setting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the Israel-Palestine conflict in the framework of an epistemological approach as an example of cognitive analysis of international conflicts and suggest that the belief of one group are incompatible with the beliefs of the other.

TL;DR: This paper identified five themes of interethnic communication: worldview, acceptance, negative stereotyping, relational solidarity, and expressiveness, and an additional theme, behaving rationally, was identified by the qualitative method but could not be validated by the critical method.

TL;DR: This paper used a contact theory perspective to examine the attitudes of 223 students from the State of Qatar as those students pursued higher education in the United States and found that students experiencing greater promotive contacts displayed more favorable attitudes towards the USA.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used DeLoach & Greer's three phases of adjustment to disability as a descriptive framework and found that persons with disabilities demonstrate an awareness of their new culture and develop communication strategies to communicate with the ablebodied majority.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report gender and race differences found in seven types of characteristics for 15,758 households in Indiana that were investigated by Law Enforcement and/or Child Protection Services for child sexual abuse.

TL;DR: This paper investigated agreement between American managers in Saudi Arabia and French managers in the U.S. regarding their subjective evaluation of the importance of 16 personal abilities for Intercultural Communication Effectiveness (ICE).

TL;DR: In this article, the role of the self in intercultural learning was considered and the relationship between the self and culture was considered a significant factor in the ways individuals learn other cultures.

TL;DR: The authors examined relational themes, patterns of discourse which focus on partners' interpretations of their interaction, in intercultural relationships, and found that cultural similarity, language/cultural knowledge, and accommodation emerged more frequently in these Japanese-North American relationships than would be expected in relationships between members of the same culture.

TL;DR: In this paper, a bilingual scholar with 10 years' experience in Japanese universities provides an introduction to some of the major features of the Japanese system and notes some possible implications for international exchange.

TL;DR: In this paper, an attempt is made to elaborate and interpret Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu's Taoistic philosophy from a developmental psychological point of view, which is compatible with and complementary to Maslow's humanistic perspective on the healthy personality and Kohlberg's perspective on universal justice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined data derived from the self-reported criminal activities of Israeli Jewish and Arab street corner youth and junior and senior high-school students in Israel and found that differences were found between the groups as regards type and levels of criminal activity.

TL;DR: In this paper, 100 executives of transnational corporations were confronted with the question of the influence of everyday Mexican life, the national culture, on technology transfer, and three types of perceptions of Mexican culture were derived: the hedonist, the refuser, and the uncertain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined parent and teacher reports of Overcontrolled and Undercontrolled problems in Jamaican children and found nonsignificant correlations and generally significant correlations when they rated undercontrolled problems.

TL;DR: In this article, a recent trial in the U.S. illustrates an issue with profound implications for the system: the competence of judges/jurors to interpret the behavior of culturally different defendants.

TL;DR: The authors examined the underlying religious influence on Naga nationalism and found that Naga patriotic zeal and nationalistic sentiments are derived from their religious philosophy and values, i.e., animism and Christianity.

TL;DR: This article examined the influence of counseling orientation, as measured by the Counseling Orientation Scale (COS), and culture (Mexican and U.S.) on psychology trainees' judgments of mentally healthy beliefs for women and men.

TL;DR: The Life Goals Inventory was administered to 170 Indian college students to explore how the students perceive their future in terms of vocational, social, and personal goals as mentioned in this paper, and it was observed that many social factors have been instrumental in influencing the life goals, particularly, the vocational goals of the students.

TL;DR: In this paper, a serie de recherches interculturelles sous forme d'une reflexion sur le role and l'efficacite du psychodrame dans la modification des prejuges interculturels and sur la responsabilite (ethique) du praticien