Across the globe, societies are recording an increasing number of domestic and international migrants for numerous reasons. While this may promote multiculturalism, new migrants and linguistically minority ethnocultural groups may face challenges in fully and equitably participating in various aspects of broader societies, due to language barriers. The purpose of this paper is to propose the us...

The importance of using culturally sensitive educational materials in HIV-related interventions with racial and ethnic minority groups is widely recognized. However, little empirical research has been conducted to assess the relative effectiveness of different techniques for creating culturally sensitive AIDS educational videos. Two field experiments with three samples of African American adult...

In today’s world of global software teams, managing members from multiple countries and cultures adds to an already complex mix of project factors. Based on a survey of multicultural teams, this paper examines some key issues that arise on culturally diverse teams. We focused on communications and conflict resolution factors, and their respective impact on productivity. Results of this led to l...

The literature on the effects of cultural diversity on conflict and team performance has been dominated by the information processing and social categorization theories. This article adds to the existing literature by adopting a dynamic constructivist approach detailing the effects of interpersonal conflict on cognition in multicultural environments. The fulcrum of this model is whether the con...

Understanding the experiences of multicultural individuals is vital in our diverse populations. Multicultural people often need to navigate the different norms and values associated with their multiple cultural identities. Recent research on multicultural identification has focused on how individuals with multiple cultural groups manage these different identities within the self, and how this p...

The purpose of this study to introduce new pedagogy design to engage students and help them develop cultural and global health competency through multicultural nursing education lecture with flipped approach. Methods: the study design used a descriptive, cross-sectional, mixed-methods design and the participants were 160 first grade nursing students who enrolled multicultural nursing education ...

BACKGROUND Community health nurses are on the frontline of providing healthcare to multiethnic groups. Managing and providing effective, culture-specific healthcare can increase the health quality of Taiwan's recently immigrant women, a significant component of this country's population. PURPOSE This study analyzes the cultural sensitivity of community health nurses and related factors. MET...

This paper reviews discourses on multicultural education and the concept of intercultural competences in the European and Nordic country of Finland. We are interested in their present uses and perceptions by decision-makers, researchers, but also student teachers. Some prognosis for the future is made based on a short case study from art teacher education in this context. The article also repre...

background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents), which occur globally, are increasing in prevalence within the usa. assisting employers in their response is a growing practice area for occupational medicine, occupational social work, industrial psychology and other occupational health professions. traumatic workplace events vary greatly in their level of org...

In the modern world, the environment of any educational institution represents a spectrum of ethnic groups and subcultures: a multicultural educational environment. Pupils who are aware of their national identity often demonstrate intolerance toward students of other nationalities, which threatens pupils’ psychological safety. In this article, we present the results of pilot research examining ...