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Women's Adaptation to the IT Culture

Women's Studies, 2008
This research study investigated the possible cultural conflicts faced by women during the socialization process to the IT occupational culture. In particular, the differences of perceptions by gender were examined. This study presents a sequential mixed methodology approach composed of two linked phases: the initial qualitative phase included 27 ...
Indira R. Guzman, Jeffrey M. Stanton
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Cultural adaptation of cognitive–behavioural therapy

BJ Psych Advances, 2019
SUMMARY The study of cultural factors in the application of psychotherapy across cultures – ethnopsychotherapy – is an emerging field. It has been argued that Western cultural values underpin cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) as they do other modern ...
F. Naeem, P. Phiri, S. Rathod, M. Ayub
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Adapting to Unfamiliar Cultures

2009
During the last three chapters we have explored the intercultural competencies needed for effective and appropriate intercultural interaction, focusing particularly on the process of interaction. In this chapter we turn to the individual and consider the impact that intercultural interaction can have on the psychological welfare and growth of those who
Peter Franklin, Helen Spencer-Oatey
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RETHINKING CULTURAL ADAPTATION∗

The Professional Geographer, 1986
Several issues surrounding the concept of cultural adaptation and its significance to cultural geography are discussed. A new model of cultural adaptation is developed to explain the evolution of spatial structures. Also a research agenda for geographic inquiry is proposed.
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Sensitivity to Language-based Rejection in Intercultural Communication: The Role of Language Mindsets and Implications for Migrants’ Cross-cultural Adaptation

, 2019
Recent research conceptualizes language mindsets as a ‘lens’ through which learners view language challenges as either deficits of aptitude (i.e. entity beliefs) or opportunities to improve (i.e. incremental beliefs).
N. Lou, K. Noels
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Culture and Biological Adaptation [PDF]

American Anthropologist, 1965
THE results of one phase of a recently completed study which are pertinent to the question of the biological adaptiveness of culture are presented here. For the purpose of interpreting the genetic characteristics of Pacific Island peoples, research was initially directed to the problem of identifying the determinants of size, structure and dynamics of ...
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The Human Adaptation for Culture

Annual Review of Anthropology, 1999
▪ Abstract  Human beings are biologically adapted for culture in ways that other primates are not, as evidenced most clearly by the fact that only human cultural traditions accumulate modifications over historical time (the ratchet effect). The key adaptation is one that enables individuals to understand other individuals as intentional agents like the
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Adaptation of Presentation to Culture

2019
The chapter takes the discussion of presentation in Chapter 9 further emphasising the dependence on culture. The chapter starts with a discussion of cultural aspects and cultural stereotypes as known from research in psychology. This is connected mainly with the understanding of cultural stereotypes in the models of Hofstede and Lewis.
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim
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Assessing Cultural Adaptation: Psychometric Properties of the Cultural Adaptation Pain Scale

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 1996
This article explores the psychometric properties of a newly developed Cultural Adaptation Pain Scale. This scale is designed to assess the degree of subjective pain, social distance, and discouragement that may be related to cultural adaptation. Factor analyses revealed 4 factors in the scale that had an overall Cronbach's alpha of .85.
Daya Singh Sandhu, Sidney A. McPhee, Pedro R. Portes   +2 more
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Journey to the East: Cultural adaptation of video games for the Chinese market

The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2018
With the era of globalisation, China has become one of the most important video game markets in the world. To enter the Chinese market, culture adjustments are often made to video games in order to meet the needs and expectations of Chinese gamers. After
Luo Dong, Carme Mangiron
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