Values Perceived in Television by Adolescents in Different Cross-cultural Contexts

Social determinants of health--a comparative study of Bosnian adolescents in different cultural contexts.

This study investigated the effects of sociocultural contexts on health and the psychological well-being of immigrant adolescents, aged 15 to 18 years, originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina and now living as displaced persons either in Bosnia, or immigrants in Croatia and Austria. The study addresses the social determinants of health with a specific focus on five factors in the social environm...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Trend analysis in L-fuzzy contexts with absent values

Sometimes we have to work with  $L$-fuzzy context sequences where one or more values are missing. These sequences can represent, among other things, the evolution in time of an $L$-fuzzy context. The studies of tendencies that we have done so far used tools that are not valid when the $L$-fuzzy context has unknown values. In this work we address such situations and we propose new methods to tac...

Cross-cultural Differences in Risk Perception, but Cross-cultural Similarities in Attitudes Towards Perceived Risk

In this study, respondents from the P.R.C., U.S.A., Germany, and Poland were found to differ in risk preference, as measured by buying prices for risky financial options. Chinese respondents were significantly less risk-averse in their pricing than Americans when risk preference was assessed in the traditional expected-utility framework. However, these apparent differences in risk preference we...

Psychological debriefing in cross-cultural contexts: ten implications for practice.

Crisis interventions following exposure to traumatic events have become common in most western and in some non-western countries. The literature regarding early interventions, specifically the use of Psychological Debriefing (PD), is grounded in a western context. Little has been written of its use in different cultural settings. This article focuses on the use of PD in different cultural setti...