Fathers in Western/European Cultural Context

AbstractAfter the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB) was validated as a reliable instrument for the Western European context it is primarily intended in this study to translate the measure into Spanish and adapt it for the Mexican culture. Furthermore we investigate whether spirituality/religiosity has a similar impact on indicators of personality and subjective well-being in Mexico as it does in samples drawn from Western European cultures. 190 students (99 females) from public and private universities in Guadalajara, all Mexican citizens, were involved in this study. We found strong evidential support for the six factor solution of the Original MI-RSWB in this Mexican population. By mirroring previous research the measure showed a highly satisfying internal consistency (α = .91 for the total score and .75 or higher for all six sub dimensions). Furthermore the total RSWB score was observed to be related with Eysenck’s personality dimensions Extraversion (r = .24, p < .01), and Psychoticism (r = –.28, p < .001), although not with Neuroticism. There was also a positive correlation with Sense of Coherence (r = .31, p < .001). In conclusion, the dimensionality of RSWB and its associations with personality and subjective well-being was well supported in this first application within a Mexican cultural context.

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Online retailers’ return policy and prefactual thinking

Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management ◽

10.1108/jfmm-01-2019-0010 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 504-518 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yanan Yu ◽

Hye-Shin Kim

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Purchase Intention ◽

Valuable Insight ◽

Anticipated Regret ◽

Content Type ◽

Return Policies ◽

Return Policy ◽

Online Retailers ◽

The Usa ◽

Western European

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how return policies from online fashion retailers from different countries (USA, China and Western European) support consumer need for uncertainty avoidance and lower negative prefactual thinking in two different markets: China and USA. Design/methodology/approach A content analysis of eight international online fashion retailers’ return policies in both the China and USA markets was conducted. Findings US, Chinese and Western European online fashion retailers have more detailed return policies in the USA market compared to the China market. The results also indicate that US, Chinese and Western European online fashion retailers are more inclined to offer lenient return policies in the USA market which helps to lower consumer perceptions of uncertainty and negative prefactual thinking. Practical implications Exploring online retailers’ return policies and how retailers respond to consumers’ level of comfort with uncertainty and tendencies to engage in negative prefactual within the context of different cultural markets offer valuable insight into standard retail practices necessary to retain profitability. Despite the perception of a “global” marketplace, nonstandardization of customer service is found. Originality/value Although the ability of online retailers to reach global markets has increased, few scholars have studied return policies within different cultural contexts. This study focuses on return policy as a major influencer of prefactual thinking by reducing anticipated regret and increasing online purchase intention in a global cultural context. The research is not only beneficial to managers who seek to increase the profitability through globally strategic implementation of return policies but also contributes to the consumer regret and risk literature.

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„Praznovanje sopstva“: Evropska smotra srpskog folklora kao mesto konstrukcije i komoditizacije identiteta

Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology ◽

10.21301/eap.v11i4.3 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 1005

Author(s):

Miloš Rašić

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Home Country ◽

Economic Aspect ◽

European Countries ◽

Temporary Work ◽

Political Events ◽

Economic Process ◽

Western European ◽

European Review

Migration is a complex socio-political and economic process which, in Yugoslavia, began after WWII in the 1950's. When they left for, what they then believed would be temporary work; Yugoslavs had permanently settled in Western European countries and developed a new cultural context which they inhabit to this day. One of the phenomena which had arisen from this cultural context are Serbian clubs, which came into being through the disintegration of Yugoslav clubs which had started in the 1980's, influenced by the socio-political events in the home country. Since the 1990's, following nationalist ideology, the manifestation entitled the European review of Serbian folklore, by Serbs in the Diaspora and the region, which will be the topic of this paper, came into being. I believe this to be one of the most important manifestations when it comes to considering the politics of work and relationships among Serbian clubs in the Diaspora. However, upon deeper analysis, one sees its dominant economic aspect which is usually covered by the idea of "authenticity". It is my goal in this paper to deconstruct the phenomenon, so I will view the European review through five pairs of oppositions.

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Culture and the plasticity of perception

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002887 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Lifshitz ◽

T. M. Luhrmann

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Sensory Experience ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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Religious Discrimination and Cultural Context

10.1017/9781108394871 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kerry O'Halloran

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Religious Discrimination

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Youth Development in Europe

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040.14.4.372 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 372-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽

Ingrid Schoon

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Youth Development ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Transition To Adulthood ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Integrative Framework ◽

Reciprocal Interactions ◽

The Family ◽

Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

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Accentuating Your Masculine Side

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000144 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 103-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Chongzeng Bi ◽

Oscar Ybarra ◽

Yufang Zhao

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Gender Role ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Western Countries ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Two Samples ◽

Agency And Communion

Recent research investigating self-judgment has shown that people are more likely to base their evaluations of self on agency-related traits than communion-related traits. In the present research, we tested the hypothesis that agency-related traits dominate self-evaluation by expanding the purview of the fundamental dimensions to consider characteristics typically studied in the gender-role literature, but that nevertheless should be related to agency and communion. Further, we carried out these tests on two samples from China, a cultural context that, relative to many Western countries, emphasizes the interpersonal or communion dimension. Despite the differences in traits used and cultural samples studied, the findings generally supported the agency dominates self-esteem perspective, albeit with some additional findings in Study 2. The findings are discussed with regard to the influence of social norms and the types of inferences people are able to draw about themselves given such norms.

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