The present study deals with German-language cross-cultural research in different fields o· psychology which attempts to achieve one Or more goals of cross-cultural psychology First, methodological problems are discussed, followed by a selective presentation of cross cultural research in personality, clinical, ethological, developmental, and social psychology The theoretical and methodological ...

This paper presents a cross-cultural comparison of U.S., Canadian-Anglophone, Canadian-Francophone, and Mexican managers’ attitudes toward upward influence strategies. Generally, it was found that all four groups have similar perspectives in terms of the relative acceptability of various influence strategies. However, examination of absolute ratings of influence behaviors suggests that Canadian...

A cross-cultural comparison between U.S. and Hong Kong preschoolers examined factors responsible for young children's analogical reasoning errors. On a scene analogy task, both groups had adequate prerequisite knowledge of the key relations, were the same age, and showed similar baseline performance, yet Chinese children outperformed U.S. children on more relationally complex problems. Children...

Two important hypotheses concerning the consequences of work-family conflict are matching-domain effect and cross-domain effect. However, neither of these has been explicitly tested in a Chinese context despite the increasing attention given by business and organization researchers to the Chinese business world. Moreover, the extant evidence is less clear for performance outcomes than for attit...

The article discusses the principles of coordination intercultural philosophy with main vectors development modern spheres education. mechanisms formation since end 20th century have been investigated. etymological analysis concepts “dialogue”, “discussion”, “contact”, “interaction”, “polylogue”, “speech many” and “multiple contacts” is carried out. authors analyze processes correlation, mutual...

511 commercial emails from four asian countries, namely china, pakistan, india, and iran have been analyzed in a mixed-method design. the focus of the study is on the two features of politeness and intimacy. in the quantitative analysis, the model proposed by brown & levinson (1987) and that of coulmas (2005) which have drawn upon the features of indirectness in requesting and the length of...

this study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by iranian nonnative speakers (nnss) of english and canadian native speakers (nss) of english to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and l1’s (possible) influence. ...

Title of Dissertation: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PERSON CULTURE FIT: CONVERGENCE OF MENTAL MODELS Lin Zhu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation Directed By: Dr. Meina Liu Department of Communication The person-environment fit hypothesis argues that the match or fit between an individual and the environment predicts positive adaptation outcomes for the person. Unfortunately, the person-environm...