Acculturation orientations and Chinese student Sojourners' career adaptability: The roles of career exploration and cultural distance

Guan, Yanjun; Liu, Shengming; Guo, Michael Jie; Li, Mengyu; Wu, Mengyi; Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua; Xu, Sabrina Lingxiao; Lin, Tzu-Jung

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2017.11.008

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“…This finding is not in accordance with past investigation reporting that home acculturation orientation is relevant for experiencing negative feelings during acculturation (Demes & Geeraert, 2014). My findings are consonant with those pointing out the benefits of maintaining the one's own cultural heritage, such as lower depression (Ward & Kennedy, 1994), better psychological well-being (Brisset et al, 2010;Neto et al, 2005), and career adaptability (Guan et al, 2018).…”

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Loneliness among African international students in Portugal

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2021

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International students constitute an important sojourner group. This study examined the levels and predictors of loneliness among international students. The sample included 188 Angolan and 210 Cape Verdean college students who attended Portuguese institutions of higher education and a control group of 221 domestic students. The relative strengths of background and acculturation factors in loneliness, as indicators of psychological adaptation, were explored. Results showed that international students reported greater levels of loneliness than native-born students. As expected, results showed that students who reported poorer financial situation, greater perceived discrimination, lower home culture and host culture acculturation orientation scores reported higher loneliness. In addition, using hierarchical regression analyses, current findings suggest that the most significant predictors of loneliness for international students were financial situation, perceived discrimination and orientation to heritage culture. Implications of these results for reducing loneliness of international students are discussed.

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Loneliness among African international students in Portugal

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“…We primarily focused on three dimensions of job search outlined by Saks (2005) as the proximal behavioral criteria for the employability development program: (a) career exploration, which involves “collecting career-related information about personal attributes and occupational characteristics” (Guan et al , 2018, p. 229); (b) networking, which refers to “actions directed toward contacting friends, acquaintances, and other people to whom the job seeker has been referred for the main purpose of getting information, leads, or advice on getting a job” (Wanberg et al , 2000, p. 492); and (c) job search effort/intensity, which refers to “the amount of energy, time, and persistence that a job seeker devotes to his or her job search” as well as the “frequency with which job seekers, during a set period of time, engage in specific job search behaviors” (Saks, 2005, p. 150).…”

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Advancing employability: applying training evaluation to employability development programs

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2021

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PurposeThis paper aims to apply training evaluation to employability development, providing a systematic process to assess employability development programs' effectiveness under the framework of employability capital resources (Peeters et al., 2019).Design/methodology/approachThe authors demonstrate the training evaluation process within an employability development program for US secondary school students. This process included providing validation evidence for measures of evaluation criteria across multiple samples of secondary school students and testing the effectiveness of the program utilizing a quasi-experimental design.FindingsThe authors systematically found support for the intervention's effects on training criteria (i.e. reactions, learning, behavior, results) and demonstrated the utility for training evaluation's application to employability development. The findings illustrate how a training evaluation approach can provide holistic evidence that an employability development program achieved its intended outcomes.Originality/valueEmployability is a new and burgeoning topic – however, employability development varies in how it is conceptualized, evaluated and assessed. By applying training evaluation approaches, employability development can be assessed within a unifying framework and better integrated within the Human Resource Management literature.

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“…To investigate the nonlinear relationship between PD and OFDI, we follow the method of Guan et al (2018) and group the data, based on the mean cultural distance, into smaller and MD 58,7…”

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Psychic distance and outward foreign direct investment: the moderating effect of firm heterogeneity

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PurposeThis study investigates the effect of psychic distance (PD) on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by multinational firms originating in emerging economies and the moderating effect of firm heterogeneity on this relationship.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical analysis based on a negative binomial regression model is conducted using OFDI data from 2008 to 2017 on companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in China, an emerging economy.FindingsThe results suggest a U-shaped relationship between PD and OFDI by firms in emerging economies. Both executive foreign experience and state ownership negatively moderate the U-shaped relationship between PD and OFDI.Practical implicationsEmerging economies should encourage and guide multinational firms in engaging in OFDI and emphasize the advantages and disadvantages of PD for multinational firms. Additionally, non-sate-owned firms should recruit those who have a foreign education to provide support for OFDI by firms in emerging economies. Multinational firms should determine investment locations by consulting with executives with foreign experience to improve their ability to engage in OFDI.Originality/valueThis study combines macro and micro perspectives and integrates PD and firm heterogeneity into the same model with a sample of multinational firms originating in China. The findings support the existence of a PD paradox, which helps to enriching the theory on foreign direct investment.

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Acculturation orientations and Chinese student Sojourners' career adaptability: The roles of career exploration and cultural distance

Cited by 30 publications

References 53 publications

Loneliness among African international students in Portugal

Loneliness among African international students in Portugal

Advancing employability: applying training evaluation to employability development programs

Psychic distance and outward foreign direct investment: the moderating effect of firm heterogeneity

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