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The prediction of psychological and sociocultural adjustment during cross-cultural transitions☆
Wendy Searle,Colleen Ward +1 more
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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.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Intercultural Relations.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 1383 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social environment & Acculturation.read more
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Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for cross-cultural psychology has been proposed, and some general findings and conclusions based on a sample of empirical studies have been presented, with a consideration of the social and psychological costs and benefits of adopting a pluralist and integrationist orientation to these issues.
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Cultural Intelligence: Its Measurement and Effects on Cultural Judgment and Decision Making, Cultural Adaptation and Task Performance
Soon Ang,Linn Van Dyne,Christine Koh,K. Yee Ng,Klaus J. Templer,Cheryl Sihui Tay,N. Anand Chandrasekar +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors enhance the theoretical precision of cultural intelligence (CQ: capability to function effectively in culturally diverse settings) by developing and testing a model that posits differential relationships between the four CQ dimensions (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioural) and three intercultural effectiveness outcomes (cultural judgment and decision making, cultural adaptation and task performance).
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Is acculturation unidimensional or bidimensional? A head-to-head comparison in the prediction of personality, self-identity, and adjustment.
TL;DR: Although the unidimensional measure showed a coherent pattern of external correlates, the bidimensional measure revealed independent dimensions corresponding to heritage and mainstream culture identification, which displayed patterns of noninverse correlations with personality, self-identity, and psychosocial adjustment.
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Acculturation When Individuals and Groups of Different Cultural Backgrounds Meet
David L. Sam,John W. Berry +1 more
TL;DR: Often those who integrate are better adapted than those who acculturate by orienting themselves to one or the other culture or to neither culture (marginalization), and Implications of these findings for policy and program development and for future research are presented.
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The social readjustment rating scale
Thomas H. Holmes,Richard H. Rahe +1 more
TL;DR: This report defines a method which achieves etiologic significance as a necessary but not sufficient cause of illness and accounts in part for the time of onset of disease and provides a quantitative basis for new epidemiological studies of diseases.
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A self-rating depression scale.
TL;DR: The general depression scales used were felt to be insufficient for the purpose of this research project and the more specific scales were also inadequate.
Culture shock : Adjustment to new cultural environments
TL;DR: Culture shock tends to be an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad as mentioned in this paper, and it has its own symptoms, cause, and cure, and many missionaries have suffered from it.
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Comparative Studies of Acculturative Stress.
TL;DR: A series of studies of acculturative stress involving immigrants, refugees, Native peoples, sojourners and ethnic groups in Canada is reported in this paper, which is defined as a reduction in he...