In a broad dichotomy, cultures are divided into collectivists and individualists. This difference between cultures is manifested in educational settings and the way students and teachers approach educational tasks and activities (Hofstede, 1986). This study investigated the way the dominant culture can affect the cognitive and affective load of classrooms and eventually account for the developm...

Abstract Objectives Recent research has suggested that Chinese individuals from a collectivist culture may have different understanding of self-compassion, which could differentially contribute to mental health. This study aimed obtain an in-depth insight into adults’ self-compassion. Methods Four online focus groups in undergraduates discussed the construct self-compassion based on self-kindne...

Global virtual teams (GVT) have emerged as a valuable model for facilitating exchange (VE) in business and educational settings. A comprehensive four-year longitudinal study spanning from 2018 to 2021 investigated of self-efficacy that include discernment, resourcefulness, diverse options, creative thinking, fairness, emotional regulation, culture. Our sample consisted participants surveyed bef...

This research investigates leadership behaviors, hotel employee engagement and the impact of behaviors on in strongly collectivist country, Myanmar. Quantitative method was applied. Questionnaires were distributed to employees Mandalay, Myanmar, using non-probability convenience sampling method. Descriptive statistics multiple regression used measure behavior, behavior engagement. The results s...

He Chengyao's performance art works not only reflect the collectivist immersion of contemporary people, but also trauma that generations Chinese women have suffered after facing persecution patriarchal thinking. From works, this paper explores women's thinking and outlook on identity motherhood.

The Asian social networks are dominated by the society’s collectivist culture, and this interestingly introduces an influence mechanism aided word-of-mouth opinion leaders. An leader can help to generate shape other people’s achieve a high information spread on any topic. In work, modified spider monkey optimization based detection approach is proposed. Firstly, we employ node2vec graph embeddi...

BACKGROUND School-based smoking prevention programs sometimes fail in unexpected ways. This study tests the hypotheses that both social/cultural contexts and individual dispositional characteristics may interact with program content to produce effects that are variable in potentially predictable ways. METHODS Students in 24 culturally heterogeneous or primarily Hispanic/Latino middle schools ...

Until now, many kinds of persuasive applications have been developed, and most of which are used by individuals for personal benefits, example includes better healthcare, better lifestyle and so on. However, one application area that is yet to be explored effectively is persuading users for preserving shared resources including environmental conservation. Unlike existing persuasive applications...