Maintaining harmony across the globe: The cross-cultural role of closeness in interpersonal forgiveness

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Karremans ◽  
Camillo Regalia ◽  
Giorgia Paleari ◽  
Frank Fincham ◽  
Ming Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Interpersonal Forgiveness ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cultural Role

The Distinctiveness Principle: Identity, Meaning, and the Bounds of Cultural Relativity

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian L. Vignoles ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou ◽  
Glynis M. Breakwell
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Relativity ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
The Cross ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Precise Role

Extending theories of distinctiveness motivation in identity (Breakwell, 1987; Brewer, 1991; Snyder & Fromkin, 1980), we discuss the precise role of distinctiveness in identity processes and the cross-cultural generality of the distinctiveness principle. We argue that (a) within Western cultures, distinctiveness is necessaryfor the construction of meaning within identity, and (b) the distinctiveness principle is not incompatible with non-Western cultural systems. We propose a distinction among three sources of distinctiveness: position, difference, and separateness, with different implications for identity and behavior. These sources coexist within cultures, on both individual and group levels of selfrepresentation, but they may be emphasized differently according to culture and context.

Why Do Easterners Have Lower Well-Being Than Westerners? The Role of Others’ Approval Contingencies of Self-Worth in the Cross-Cultural Differences in Subjective Well-Being

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Hong Liu ◽  
Yi-Hsing Claire Chiu ◽  
Jen-Ho Chang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The Cross

Previous studies have shown that Easterners generally perceive themselves as having lower subjective well-being compared with Westerners, and several mechanisms causing such differences have been identified. However, few studies have analyzed the causes of such differences from the perspective of the cross-cultural differences in the meanings of important life events such as whether people receive approval from others. Specifically, events regarding others’ approval might have different meanings to and influences on Easterners and Westerners. Thus, the degree of fluctuation of people’s views of self-worth in response to these events (i.e., others’ approval contingencies of self-worth [CSW]) probably differs between Easterners and Westerners. This may be a reason for cross-cultural differences in subjective well-being. We investigated two samples of undergraduate students from Taiwan and the United States to examine the mediating role of others’ approval CSW in forming cross-cultural differences in subjective well-being. The results revealed that Taiwanese participants exhibited lower subjective well-being and higher others’ approval CSW than American participants. In addition, others’ approval CSW partially mediated the cross-cultural differences in subjective well-being. Thus, one reason for lower subjective well-being among Easterners was likely that their self-esteem was more prone to larger fluctuations depending on whether they receive approval from others in everyday life.

Interaction in Distance Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 222-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evrim Genc Kumtepe ◽  
Nazife Sen Ersoy
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Transactional Distance ◽  
Interaction Interaction ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Comparisons ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Instructional Dialogue

Education is a product of the objects and actors in the process of interaction. Interaction is, therefore, an important factor that affects the quality and sustainability of education. For this reason, this section will focus on interaction and its theories and approaches which are a popular and versatile concept in distance education. In the first part of the chapter, the concept of interaction will be discussed with different dimensions and components. Interaction in the following section will be examined within the framework of Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance, Anderson's Interaction Equivalency Theorem, and Gorsky and Caspi's Theory of Instructional Dialogue. At the end of the chapter, the nature of the interaction in distance learning will be discussed in the context of the studies on instructional dialogue and the cross-cultural comparisons will be addressed to the issue of the role of interaction in distance settings.

scholarly journals The paradox role of extraversion in the cross-cultural adjustment process of Asian expatriates

2019 ◽  
Vol Volume 12 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Asia Rafiq ◽  
Sharjeel Saleem ◽  
Mohsin Bashir ◽  
Arfan Ali
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
The Cross

scholarly journals EUROPEAN CROSS CULTURAL DIFFERENCIES VS. GERMAN AND ROMANIAN STYLE NEGOTIATIONS

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
MARIANA BAICU
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
International Negotiation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Cross ◽  
European Family

Negotiation is a kind of communication between contractual partners having a target, a consensual objective to achieve. In an international negotiation, the businessmen have to know the culture of their partner in order to approach him according to his language, habits, traditions, moral and religious customs. In Europe we know two kinds of cultures: monochronic and polychronic cultures and some authors describe the cultural trinity (Northern, Central and Southern geographical oriented cultures). In the European Union the trend is to have UNITY IN DIVERSITY, proper to the prospective European family, defined by tolerance, understanding, competitive alliances and win-win negotiations. This goal will be achieved by knowing the cross cultural differences, playing the role of the adult negotiator, tolerant, knowing and understanding each other.

European crisis, fragmentation and cohesion: The contribution of ectopic literature to Europeanness

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 394-409
Author(s):  
Tomás Albaladejo
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cultural Cohesion

This article deals with the current European crisis and with the role of literature in surmounting it alongside economic, social and political shifts. Literature is proposed as one of the supportive pillars of Europe, as the existence of European literature contributes to the idea of Europe itself. Literary writing and human travel and displacement are connected in order to analyse the constitution of ‘ectopic literature’. Since one of the constituents of literature is the contact of literatures and cultures and their mutual influences, the movements of writers inside and towards Europe reinforce the cross-cultural and hybrid nature of European literature and of Europe itself. Thus, ectopic literature boosts a network of cultural cohesion and contributes to the reinforcement of this idea of Europe as well as of Europeanness.

Power, other-worldliness, and the extended mind

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-389
Author(s):  
ADAM GREEN
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Extended Mind ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Natural Power ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Religious Praxis

AbstractIn this article, I use the extended mind literature to elucidate religious phenomena that are normally left well outside the purview of analytic philosophy of religion. I show that the extended mind literature casts light on how the potential relationships of the ordinary believer to extra-natural power dictate cross-culturally re-occurring ways of structuring religious praxis. This application of the extended mind illuminates a diverse but subtly interconnected set of religious phenomena, from the cross-cultural appeal of magic as a negative category to the role of other-worldliness in the major world religions.

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