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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Agreement answer scale design for multilingual surveys effects of translation-related changes in verbal labels on response styles and response distributions /

Villar, Ana. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009. / Title from title screen (site viewed February 25, 2010). PDF text: xvi, 204 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 2 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3386760. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.
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Culture and cancer prevention among a population of Vietnamese Americans /

Chan, Nadine Lai-Sin. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-84).
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"Mission-in-reverse" a contemporary approach to mission /

Kiss, Carolyn. January 1987 (has links)
Thesis (M.T.S.)--Catholic Theological Union, 1987. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-49).
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An investigation of the determinants of the spatial characteristics of figure placements

Edwards, D J A January 1973 (has links)
The doll placement technique is a projective instrument which yields objective measures from which inferences may be drawn. Subjects place pairs of dolls to represent social encounters described to them by the experimenter. When the dolls have been placed, the distance between them and the angles at which they stand can serve as a source of information either about the personality of the placer or about the way in which he perceives the relationship between the interactors represented. Most experimental work employing figure placements has used flat felt figures which subjects have mounted on a flannel graph. This method limits an investigator to one dependent variable, the inter-figure distance. However if three dimensional dolls are placed three dependent measures can be derived from a placement, one of distance and two of orientation. It has been demonstrated that a reliable correlation exists between the spatial relations between figures placed by a person and the spatial relationships between real interactors. The theoretical analysis of the determinants of interpersonal distance and orientation in social encounters which has been worked out by students of non-verbal behaviour is therefore able to serve as a basis for the interpretation of the spatial characteristics of doll placements. Previous work with the doll placement technique has concentrated on the distance between dolls. The present study explored the determinants of figure orientations. Firstly an analysis was made of the types of orientation pattern that can occur when two persons are involved in a social encounter. Secondly, an experiment was performed which was designed to explore whether asymmetry in an orientation pattern might act as a cue to determine how individual figures in a pair were perceived. Thirdly, two doll placement studies were performed which were designed to investigate the conditions giving rise to asymmetrical orientation patterns and the determinants of direct and indirect orientations. The confidence or anxiety attributed to an interactor represented by a figure proved to be a major determinant of its spatial position. The results of the study indicate that the use of the angle measures in the analysis of doll placements considerably enhances the value of the technique. It is argued that the doll placement method could be profitably employed both as a clinical instrument and as a research tool for cross-cultural psychology.
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Investigating the Structure and Functions of Worldview Assumptions

Bou Malham, Philippe 06 September 2017 (has links)
The goal of this dissertation was to develop a relatively comprehensive and culturally de-centered measure of worldview assumptions, basic beliefs that humans have about the world and reality. A pool of 179 items was compiled from a selective review of the literature and submitted to Exploratory Factor Analysis in a US sample. The emergent 6-factor structure was submitted to increasingly stringent tests of invariance in samples from Lebanon, Singapore, and India and met the standards for factorial invariance. The 6-factors showed a diverse set of relationships with measures of the potential functions of worldview: subjective well-being, meaning in life, and tolerance for inequality.
216

Inter- and intra-cultural information transmission

Li, Han Z. 02 April 2015 (has links)
Graduate
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Cross cultural psychotherapy in South Africa : towards a conceptual clarification

Van der Want, David, Van der Want, David John 08 May 2014 (has links)
M.A. (Clinical Psychology) / The present study, in an attempt to provide conceptual clarification of issues surrounding cross-cultural psychotherapy in South Africa, explores a variety of problems which may arise in the practice of psychotherapy in this context. This involves an examination of the implications of a notion of culture for the broader socio-political context in this country. Interviews were conducted with qualified clinical psychologists who work in contexts where they are engaged in psychotherapy with people from different cultural backgrounds in order to obtain qualitative data regarding their perceptions and conceptualisations of cross-cultural psychotherapy. It was found that themes similar to those elicited from a review of the relevant literature were discussed by the psychologists that were interviewed. These themes are conceptualised as a dialectic which is then explored using the framework of cybernetic complementarities. A conceptual clarification of cross cultural-psychotherapy is presented in an attempt to resolve this dialectic. Recommendations for further research in this context are made.
218

Mimicking repurchases and corporte governance : a cross-country study

Zhang, Xu 01 January 2008 (has links)
No description available.
219

From Sundance to suspect: a rhetorical analysis of the Nate Parker controversy

Lamb, David Connor January 1900 (has links)
Master of Arts / Department of Communications Studies / Colene J. Lind / Artists influence society. We also often consider the question of whether we can or should separate the art and the artist. In January 2016 The Birth of a Nation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to near unanimous praise. Shortly after the release, past allegations of sexual assault against the filmmaker, co-writer, and star Nate Parker’s past came to light. This revelation about his past continues a long and unfortunate history of artists who have completed culturally relevant works but who have been morally suspect human beings. I therefore explore how communities reconcile and support an artist accused of reprehensible acts or how they condemn the artist and reject support for them or their work. I find that commentators who engage in this controversy call forth specific communities. These communities are bound by their identities, and I suggest how they potentially are able to move forward, grow, and possibly come together across lines that include gender, race, ideology, social status, and personal identity and how they communicate and grow as individuals. Through revised discourse, these communities may be able to one day communicate across cultural lines that are currently deep chasms, separated by ideology and identity.
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A cross-cultural exploration of the International Affective Picture System in a sample of South African university students

Oettlé, Ryan Andrew January 2016 (has links)
The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) was developed in an attempt to provide a standardised tool to elicit and measure emotions for research purposes. The IAPS is unique, in that it is completely pictorially based. An emotional response is stimulated by the pictures, which are then used to measure the emotional response. This has obvious benefits in South Africa. The overall aim of this study was to conduct a cross-cultural exploration of the IAPS, with a sample of South African university students, in order to come to an initial understanding of the measure’s performance within the South African context. A quantitative methodology was used, in order to reach the research aim and objectives. The overall research approach was exploratory and descriptive in nature and the actual data gathering consisted of a single measurement instance. The procedure for this study was based on that used by the developers of the IAPS to norm the instrument. Convenience sampling was used, resulting in a total sample of 169 participants, 31 male, and 136 female. For analysis purposes, participants were grouped according to a race and language combination, thus operationalising ethnicity. This resulted in four primary ethnic groupings. In summary, it was found that a large number of items seem to travel well in terms of equivalence. The correlations achieved and affective space plot are consistent with that outlined in the IAPS instruction manual, and are similar to international studies using the same procedure. However, when items were examined in greater detail, statistically significant differences raised concerns about the level of equivalence and suggested that not all items travel equally well. Similarly, although many items were statistically similar between the South African ethnic groups, differences were also found on specific items.

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