Family Buying Decisions: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Hempel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Cultural Comparisons ◽  
Buying Decisions

This study presents cross-cultural comparisons of husband-wife interaction in specific house-buying decisions. The findings indicate that perceived roles vary more by sex of the respondent and stage in the decision process than by the cultural context of the purchase.

scholarly journals Adolescent Health Literacy in Beijing and Melbourne: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuaijun Guo ◽  
Xiaoming Yu ◽  
Elise Davis ◽  
Rebecca Armstrong ◽  
Elisha Riggs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Cultural Groups

While adolescent health literacy has gained momentum, it is under-researched from a cross-cultural perspective. This study aims to compare health literacy among two cultural groups of secondary students in Beijing and Melbourne. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 770 students from five secondary schools in Beijing and Melbourne. A self-administered questionnaire was designed to collect information on health literacy (the eight-item health literacy assessment tool (HLAT-8), the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) and the 47-item Health Literacy Survey (HLS-47)), its antecedents and health outcomes. Overall, students’ health literacy in Melbourne (n = 120) was higher than that in Beijing (n = 650): 28.25 ± 6.00 versus 26.37 ± 5.89 (HLAT-8); and 4.13 ± 1.73 versus 3.65 ± 1.64 (NVS). The proportion of students with low health literacy varied by instruments, representing 23.7–32.2% in Melbourne and 29.0%–45.5% in Beijing. In both cultural groups, students’ self-efficacy, social support, and perceptions of school environment were associated with their health literacy, which in turn predicted their health behaviours, patient-provider communication and health status. Given the nature of our study design and small samples, a cautious conclusion would be that adolescent health literacy is sensitive to the broad cultural context and might be an interactive outcome influenced by an individual’s health skills and the social environment. Particularly, creating a supportive school environment is critical to develop adolescent health literacy that would eventually contribute to better health outcomes.

Acquiring Cultural Forms: Cognitive Aspects of Socialization Illustrated by Children's Drawings and Judgments of Drawings

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline J. Goodnow ◽  
Paula Wilkins ◽  
Leslie Dawes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Developmental Change ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Cultural Comparisons ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Children’S Exposure

To explore how children come to adopt cultural forms of representation, three studies are presented. Study 1 asks about children's ability to discriminate between 'younger' and 'older' pieces of work, with 'younger and 'older' distinguished on the basis of Developmental Drawing Status (Harris 1963). Study 2 asks about children's preferences and the extent to which they match those of teachers. Study 3 asks about the differences between drawings children produce for themselves and those they produce when asked by an adult for a 'good' drawing. The underlying assumption is that one condition influencing developmental change is children's exposure to work by adults or by older children. The results point to ways of combining cross-cultural comparisons of performances with monocultural work on processes underlying children's productions. They also raise questions about patterns of exposure in any cultural context and about factors involved in the development of discriminations, preferences, and audience expectations.

Study on Chinese Brand cultural archetype: theory building and cross-cultural comparison

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80
Author(s):  
Yingwei Liu ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Ling Zhou ◽  
Chunyan Nie
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Essential Difference ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Inspection Method ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Brand Culture ◽  
Power Enhancement

PurposeThe essence of “Chinese element” has been pinpointed as the representation of national cultural archetype resource of China, which reflects to the overall power enhancement of China. Applying the Chinese national cultural archetype resource, which will be used for promoting the Chinese Brand internationalization, aims for the consumers' approval with the hope of integrating and spreading the unique cultural advantage of Chinese brand. The recognizing of Chinese brand's cultural archetype in this paper has constituted the basis of Chinese brand's cultural archetype strategy.Design/methodology/approachBased on the Grounded Theory, this paper has collected and analyzed the value symbols, character images and theme stories of Chinese narrative advertisements and constructed the cultural archetype framework of Chinese brands. This paper makes a comprehensive application of Charmaz's constructivist analysis and the main axis analysis and inspection method advocated by Strauss, with the aim of building a more objective and systematic theoretical framework for the Chinese brand cultural archetype.FindingsIn this framework, it revealed: (1) Chinese brand's cultural archetype can be divided into 12 concrete archetypes according to individual's relationship with self, the other, community and nature; (2) Consumers' different ways of self-categorization are attributed as the essential difference among various archetypes. This paper also compared and analyzed the differences between Chinese and Western cultural archetypes from three perspectives, formation of social structure, pedigree of myth and character's feature.Originality/valueThis paper has certain innovative significance to the theoretical construction of the archetype of Chinese brand culture. First, based on the cultural perspective, this paper applied the cultural psychological connotation of archetype to the brand research across culture, which is more conducive to the researchers' investigation of the cultural psychology of consumers in the cross-cultural context? Second, based on the identification and comparative study of Chinese brand culture archetype, it provides a new expansion and supplement for the research on brand internationalization and globalization in emerging countries.

Culture and Trauma-Related Disorders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon E. Hinton ◽  
Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Category ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Related Disorder ◽  
The Given

This chapter examines the role of culture in trauma-related experience. Although it focuses primarily on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it proposes a model and analytic approach that will apply to other trauma-related disorders. Culture is defined here in a broad sense. However, there is considerable variation within a group, and the given examples of cultural factors prioritize intercultural variation over intracultural variation. The rest of the chapter examines PTSD from a cross-cultural perspective. A general model of culture and trauma-related disorder that is applicable to all trauma-related disorders is presented. Then the cultural influence on the rates of PTSD and on the meaning and salience of particular PTSD symptoms are reviewed, followed by a discussion of the content validity of the diagnostic category of PTSD in assessing trauma-related disorder across cultures. The chapter concludes with reflections on the clinical utility of the PTSD construct when viewed in cultural context.

PERSONAL CONCEPTIONS OF INTELLIGENCE: CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ITALIAN STUDENTS

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 815-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luísa Faria ◽  
Annamaria Pepi ◽  
Marianna Alesi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
School Systems ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Cultural Comparisons ◽  
Secondary Grades

This article presents some results of an intercultural study on personal conceptions of intelligence. The sample includes 1,540 students, 811 Italians and 729 Portuguese, from both sexes and of different socioeconomic statuses, of secondary Grades 10 and 12 and of the 1st grade of several university courses in both countries. The instrument used was The Personal Conceptions of Intelligence Scale (Faria, 2003), with 26 items, translated and adapted to Portuguese and Italian. The level of education and the cultural context appear as the only variables with either principal and interaction effects on the differentiation of personal conceptions of intelligence, which are analyzed according to the particularities of Italian and Portuguese school systems.

Teachers' Self-Efficacy in Cross-Cultural Perspective

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Klassen ◽  
Mimi Bong ◽  
Ellen L. Usher ◽  
Wan Har Chong ◽  
Vivien S. Huan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective
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