MBTI Personality Types of Korean Cabin Crew in Middle Eastern Airlines, and Their Associations with Cross-Cultural Adjustment Competency, Occupational Competency, Coping Competency, Mental Health, and Turnover Intention

Competency in occupational health.

Work is unanimously considered a major health determinant. Knowledge of people’s working conditions greatly contributes to the recognition and prevention of damages to their health and to health promotion. Following in the footsteps of Ramazzini and Thackrah, the study of the complex web of events linking people’s work history to their disease status has over the centuries produced a systematic...

Cultural Competency in Nursing Research.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2010), the demographics of the United States will change dramatically in the next 50 years. Non-Caucasians will more than double from 116.2 million in 2012 to 241.3 million by 2060, representing 57% of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). The Asian population also is expected to double in the next five years and comprise 8% of the U.S. p...

Cultural competency in the trenches.

A core mission of health professions schools is to educate and train a workforce that will be optimally prepared to provide health care and public health services for the diverse communities that they serve. It is important to create and develop a health care workforce who can understand and assist in the battle against health care disparities. For health care workers and health profession scho...

Cultural competency in occupational therapy: beyond a cross-cultural view of practice.

The purposes of this paper are two. The first purpose is to contribute to cultural competence in occupational therapy practice. The second is to contribute to occupational therapy literature about culture and cultural analysis related to practice. This paper introduces a cultural analysis of stories about the therapeutic process with two Japanese therapists and their Japanese patients. Two ther...

Cultural competency in grief and loss.