Motivating Sustainable Behaviors: The Role of Religiosity in a Cross‐Cultural Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Begum Kaplan ◽  
Easwar S. Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural

scholarly journals The Relationships among Self-Worth Contingency on Others’ Approval, Appearance Comparisons on Facebook, and Adolescent Girls’ Body Esteem: A Cross-Cultural Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Prieler ◽  
Jounghwa Choi ◽  
Hye Eun Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Body Esteem ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Appearance Comparison

The present study examined the relationship between appearance-related social comparison on social networking services (SNSs) and body esteem in a cross-cultural context (three European countries, i.e., Austria, Belgium, and Spain, versus one Asian country, i.e., South Korea). The role of self-worth contingency on others’ approval was considered to be a psychological and cultural factor. Utilizing a large-scale cross-national survey of early and middle adolescents in 2017, the responses of female adolescents (N = 981) were analyzed. The results generally support the findings from previous studies but also reveal cultural differences. Appearance comparison on Facebook negatively influenced girls’ body esteem in all European countries, but not in South Korea. Self-worth contingency on others’ approval negatively influenced girls’ body esteem across all four countries. Finally, a positive relationship between self-worth contingency on others’ approval and appearance comparison on Facebook was found in all European countries, but not among Korean girls. These findings suggest the importance of self-worth contingency on others’ approval and cultural contexts can be used to study the effects of body image-related SNS use.

Exploring Guanxi in a Cross-Cultural Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Employment Decisions ◽  
Employment Relationships

Abstract Using a case study of recently arrived Cantonese-speaking migrants, this article examines the role of guanxi in shaping Chinese newcomers’ economic activities and opportunities in South Africa. In Johannesburg, Cantonese-speaking migrants tend to be employed in restaurant and fahfee (gambling) sectors, which are partially inherited from the early generations of South African Chinese. Through narratives and stories, this article reveals that Cantonese newcomers often strengthen personal and employment relationships through the practice of guanxi, but that doing so can also constrain their employment decisions. Moreover, the ambiguous boundary between the act of bribery and the practice of guanxi may facilitate Chinese participation but can also result in the victimization of the newcomers.

scholarly journals The Role Of Cross-Cultural Understanding in Interpreting English Recount Texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
Roni Sya'roni ◽  
Didin Nuruddin Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
English Language ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
University Education ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
History Of

This study aimed at analyzing the role of cross-cultural understanding in interpreting English recount texts. The data of this study were obtained by reviewing documents of a book entitled “Histories of Nations: How their identities were forged” (Furtado, 2017). As a qualitative content analysis, all the data were analyzed qualitatively by classifying, coding and interpreting the data gathered that led us to some conclusions and suggestions. The study found that there were some words and phrases in the recount text that requires cross cultural understanding in order to be able to interpret those texts accurately. Therefore, in interpreting the recount text, it is necessary to understand not only the text in literal meaning, but also the cultural context in a comprehensive way. This focuses on cultural context deals with the history of social organization and religion system. Cross cultural understanding eases the readers to interpret the recount text appropriately. The study suggests that cross cultural understanding should be an important topic to be learnt intensively in learning English language at least at university education level as it will enable students to be capable of understanding English discourses comprehensively.

scholarly journals The Role of Trait Competitiveness and Entrepreneurial Alertness in the Cognitive Process of Entrepreneurship Among Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study Between Vietnam and Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Cong Doanh Duong ◽  
Thi Loan Le ◽  
Ngoc Thang Ha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Entrepreneurial Alertness ◽  
Trait Competitiveness

Our study aims to explore the influences of trait competitiveness and entrepreneurial alertness on the cognitive process of entrepreneurship in the cross-cultural context of Vietnam and Poland, two emerging nations with different levels of economic and social development. To achieve this research goal, two student questionnaire surveys were carried out at universities and institutes in Vietnam and Poland. Structural equation modelling (SEM) with a bootstrapping approach was utilised to test the proposed hypotheses and conceptual model. Eight hypotheses were statistically supported by the Vietnamese dataset, confirming the significant and positive effects of both trait competitiveness and entrepreneurial alertness on the cognition process of entrepreneurship. However, for the Polish data, trait competitiveness was not found to be associated with an entrepreneurial attitude, perceived behaviour control, or entrepreneurial intention, while entrepreneurial alertness was positively related to perceived behavioural control. Our study has significantly contributed to the entrepreneurship literature by increasing the knowledge about the central role of trait competitiveness and entrepreneurial alertness on the cognitive process of business ventures in two emerging countries, where to the best of our knowledge, few studies related to our topic have been researched. Moreover, practical contributions are also offered for educational institutions and practitioners to stimulate university students’ business venturing activities.

scholarly journals Dehierarchizing Space: Performer-Audience Collaborations in Two Portuguese Performances of Shakespeare

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (30) ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Francesca Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Shakespearean Tragedy

This article addresses the key role of performance space in mediating between cultural locations. It discusses two Portuguese performances of Shakespeare where audiences were invited to become part of the performance and the ways in which this dehierarchization of the performance space framed a cross-cultural encounter between a globalized text and a localized performance context. In Teatro Oficina’s 2012 King Lear, both audience and performers sat around a large table in a production which reflected upon questions of individual and collective responsibility in Shakespearean tragedy and in the wider political sphere. In the middle of this performance space hung a large cube onto which the translated text was projected, setting up a spatial tension between text and performance that also foregrounded the translocation of the Shakespearean text to a Portuguese performance context. In Tiago Rodrigues’ 2013 By Heart, ten members of the audience were invited onstage to learn Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 “by heart and not by brain.”1 In doing so, Rodrigues emphasized the cultural embeddedness of Shakespearean texts in a wider European cultural context and operated a subtle shift from texts to performance as a privileged repository for the cultural memory of Shakespeare. The article explores how these spatial shifts signaled the possibility of enabling cross-cultural identifications with Shakespeare through performance.

Reactions of Chilean and US children to marital discord

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 437-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Mark Cummings ◽  
Joel Wilson ◽  
Haya Shamir
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Marital Discord ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Us Children ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Culture

Understanding of the universality of relations between marital discord and children is limited by gaps in cross-cultural study. In an extension of study of this question to a Latin American culture, the impact of marital discord was examined in 7–9 and 11–13-year-olds from Chilean ( N = 36) and US ( N = 36) families. Parents completed marital discord and child adjustment measures and children responded to analogue presentations of marital discord. For both groups, marital discord was related to children’s adjustment and children’s reactions to marital discord varied significantly as a function of conflict resolution. At the same time, culture moderated the amplitude of some relations, with the pattern of findings suggesting that Chilean children were more sensitive to marital discord than US children. Discussion considers the role of cultural context as a factor in the effects of marital discord on children.

scholarly journals The Translation of TV Commercials. Degrees of Localisation

Linguaculture ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Diana Oțăt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Cultural Variable ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Tv Commercials

The paper aims at featuring some current advertising trends and their effect upon the re-mapping of translation strategies. Addressing the field of advertising from a translation-oriented perspective, we seek to look into how TV commercials’ relocation is tackled in view of the unity in diversity socio-cultural context and to investigate the cultural intake. Hence, we set out to establish to what extent broadcasted stereotypes are disseminated via translation. Special attention is paid to the role of the cultural variable and the translation of culture-specific elements in terms of localisation and glocalisation. To shed some light on the issue of stereotyped interfaces and the overcoming of cross-cultural barriers in the translation of TV commercials, we embark upon a specialised corpus-based analysis of a set of “globalised” commercials by means of dedicated software.

Culture and Trauma-Related Disorders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon E. Hinton ◽  
Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Category ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Related Disorder ◽  
The Given

This chapter examines the role of culture in trauma-related experience. Although it focuses primarily on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it proposes a model and analytic approach that will apply to other trauma-related disorders. Culture is defined here in a broad sense. However, there is considerable variation within a group, and the given examples of cultural factors prioritize intercultural variation over intracultural variation. The rest of the chapter examines PTSD from a cross-cultural perspective. A general model of culture and trauma-related disorder that is applicable to all trauma-related disorders is presented. Then the cultural influence on the rates of PTSD and on the meaning and salience of particular PTSD symptoms are reviewed, followed by a discussion of the content validity of the diagnostic category of PTSD in assessing trauma-related disorder across cultures. The chapter concludes with reflections on the clinical utility of the PTSD construct when viewed in cultural context.

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