The measurement of cultural distance and its relationship to medical consultations, symptomatology and examination performance of overseas students at Edinburgh University

Babiker, I. E.; Cox, John; Miller, Patrick

doi:10.1007/bf00578141

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“…Previous researchers have incorporated a wide range of outcome measures, including self-awareness and self-esteem (Kamal & Maruyama, 1990), mood states (Stone & Ward, 1990), health status (Babiker, Cox, & Miller, 1980), and the like (all cited in Ward, 2001). Some writers have developed synthesizing strategies to integrate these specific approaches in order to highlight a smaller number of features.…”

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Development and validation of a measure of intercultural adjustment potential in Japanese sojourners: the Intercultural Adjustment Potential Scale (ICAPS)

Matsumoto¹,

LeRoux²,

Ratzlaff³

et al. 2001

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

134

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We describe the creation and development of a measure that predicts intercultural adjustment potential in Japanese sojourners and immigrants to the US, which we call the ICAPS. We report eight studies that provide evidence for its internal, temporal, and parallel forms reliability; for its predictive ability with not only subjective indices of adjustment, but also with psychometrically standardized measures, peer ratings, and expert ratings; for its convergent validity with a similar measure; for its construct validity with various personality scales; for its incremental validity; and for its external validity in predicting changes as a result of intercultural training, and in identifying experts who work in the intercultural field. We discuss the implications of the availability of this measure to the field for training, research, and education. r

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Section: Understanding Intercultural Adjustmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development and validation of a measure of intercultural adjustment potential in Japanese sojourners: the Intercultural Adjustment Potential Scale (ICAPS)

Matsumoto¹,

LeRoux²,

Ratzlaff³

et al. 2001

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

134

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“…In an article by Black et al (1991), it was stressed that the higher the difference among two cultures, the harder it would be for the interactants to change, and the empirical proof confirmed the above point (Babiker et al, 1980;Gudykunst, 1985;Adler, 1991;Kreitz 2008). People with similar culture's showcased bigger attributional confidence and shared networks which lessened uncertainty and anxiety Gudykunst, (1985).…”

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Impact of Nationality on Employees’ Perception towards Human Resource Management Policies

Cherian¹,

Jacob²

2012

ASS

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Globalisation has led to opening up avenues when it comes to business opportunities. Multinational Organizations nowadays tend to have a presence in various nations and also have a tendency to employ a diverse work force. Therefore the HR department has had to make a lot of changes in the way their organizations work culture is developed since they have to incorporate the views and culture of employees from diverse backgrounds. It is important to understand their views and to determine how the HRM policies affect them. This study delves into the concept of employee perceptions on various HRM policies from the perspective of one's nationality. A cross sectional survey and quantitative survey methodology was adopted for this study. The study determines that if individuals perceive certain practices in a positive light, then there's a very good chance that they will consider the rest of the HR practices with the same positive outlook and vice versa.

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“…(1) Cross cultural adaptation issue is the result of the mutual influence of both employees and foreign enterprise; (2) Babiker et al (1980) proposed that the psychological and cultural adaptation of the problem is precisely because of the differences between home culture and the new culture. Those who feel a greater cultural difference will be faced with a greater change in life in the process of cross-cultural adaptation, which will give them more stress, depression and other adaptation problems.…”

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The Relationship Between Cross Cultural Adaptation and Turnover Intention: A Study of Lao Employees in Foreign Enterprises

Hongvichit¹

2015

IBR

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With a variety of local advantages, a large number of foreign investments into Laos, Lao's employees in foreign enterprise began to be concerned about their turnover. However, research in this part is still blank. Since most of the researches based on the employees and the organization are belong to the same cultural background, we try to find out if the cultural factor also is one of important factor which impact to local employee's turnover intention. The relationship between cross cultural adaptation and turnover intention is main discussing topic on this study, local employee in foreign enterprise as the research subjects for this study. Based on survey data to calculate the cross-cultural adaptation index and turnover intention index, then regression analysis to find out the relationship of both index. The results proved that cross cultural adaptation and turnover intention was negatively correlated. This means cross-cultural adaptation is not a small obstacle but it's one of the most important factors to determine Laos's employees who work in foreign enterprises to leave or stay.

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The measurement of cultural distance and its relationship to medical consultations, symptomatology and examination performance of overseas students at Edinburgh University

Cited by 186 publications

References 3 publications

Development and validation of a measure of intercultural adjustment potential in Japanese sojourners: the Intercultural Adjustment Potential Scale (ICAPS)

Development and validation of a measure of intercultural adjustment potential in Japanese sojourners: the Intercultural Adjustment Potential Scale (ICAPS)

Impact of Nationality on Employees’ Perception towards Human Resource Management Policies

The Relationship Between Cross Cultural Adaptation and Turnover Intention: A Study of Lao Employees in Foreign Enterprises

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