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2 | no | 1 | ScienceDirect | Conversation analysts commonly agree that speakers tend to minimize gaps between adjacency pairs, and that silence in this position is likely to indicate trouble. However, there are surprisingly few sequential analyses that investigate what kinds of trouble silences indicate, particularly in conflict interactions and in intercultural contexts. This paper examines the practice of withholding a response as an interactionally meaningful device in domestic disputes among couples who use English as their common lingua franca (ELF). By investigating the ways in which these speakers orient to transition-relevance place silences in the subsequent turns, it is concluded that noticeable silences in domestic ELF conflict talk are treated by the interlocutors as marking the following: 1) avoiding self-incriminating second pair-parts, 2) resisting laughable-initiated changes of footing, 3) sustained disagreement, 4) taking offence, or 5) unsuccessful persuasion. The most common ways in which the speakers then orient to such silences are also reviewed. The analysis shows that turn-by-turn micro-analysis is an efficient methodology for examining the situational inferences of silence-in-interaction. | Pietikäinen, Kaisa S. | Silence that speaks: The local inferences of withholding a response in intercultural couples' conflicts | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | yes | 2 | ScienceDirect | Drawing on a larger study of a diverse group of eight Tongan-European Australian intercultural couples' experiences of partnering and becoming parents, this article explores participants' accounts of relationships with parents and parents-in-law over the course of these key family life cycle transitions. In particular, the article seeks to understand the role of geographical space in couples' experiences of navigating intimacy in intercultural, intergenerational relationships, understood as sites for cosmopolitanization, and what this reveals about intercultural partnering and parenting in the context of wider social and economic changes impacting family life. The analysis shows that participants placed importance on both intimate relationships with their parents and parents-in-law, and on autonomy as a couple, but that balancing these objectives was challenging. The article also illustrates how the occupation and sharing of space can enhance or disrupt intimacy between adult children in intercultural relationships and their parents/-in-law. Alternatively, space can be used to remedy uncomfortable cosmopolitanized encounters and reinscribe preferred degrees of physical proximity and distance. These findings highlight the importance of attending to the ‘doing’ and undoing of intimacy, including non-verbal gestures and responses. The article contributes to our understanding of emotional experiences of cosmopolitanization, and of intimacy in intercultural, intergenerational relationships. | Johnston-Ataata, Kate | Space and the navigation of intimacy in intergenerational Tongan-European Australian relationships during partnering and early parenthood | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | yes | 3 | ScienceDirect | Highlights •Views of transnational marriage vary across rural and urban Thai settings, and across generations in urban Thailand.•When reasoning about intimate intercultural relationships, rural parents and adolescents prioritize local Thai values.•Urban parents simultaneously prioritize local and Western values.•Urban adolescents prioritize Western values.•Globalization shapes perspectives of intimate intercultural relationships. | McKenzie, Jessica Xiong, Kajai C. | Fated for foreigners: Ecological realities shape perspectives of transnational marriage in northern Thailand | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | yes | 4 | Complementary Index | The goal of this study was to investigate the cultural predictors of relational satisfaction in intercultural marriages: self-construals, power distance, and relational models. Participants in an intercultural marriage (N = 248) completed an online questionnaire assessing these variables. Results indicated that both self-construals and power distance predicted relational satisfaction, as did the communal sharing relational model. Mediation analyses further revealed that communal sharing was a significant mediator of the relationship between each cultural variable and relational satisfaction. These findings are discussed in light of intercultural communication, with a focus on practical implications for intercultural relationships. | Machette, Anthony T. Cionea, Ioana A. | What Predicts Relational Satisfaction in Intercultural Relationships? A Culture and Relational Models Perspective. | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||
6 | yes | 5 | Academic Search Index | Asian-involved intercultural couples are increasing as society becomes more open and accepting of intercultural relationships. Although issues and conflicts exist due to cultural differences, acculturation and personality characteristics may strengthen intercultural relationships. Ninety-two Asian and non-Asian individuals in Asian couples and Asian intercultural couples in the United States were compared based on the level of marital satisfaction, the level of acculturation, and personality characteristics. Findings indicated no differences in the level of marital satisfaction. However, significantly higher levels of acculturation in Asians in Asian intercultural couples and significantly higher levels of openness, conscientiousness, and extroversion in individuals in Asian intercultural couples were evident. | Lee, ShinHwa Balkin, Richard S. Fernandez, Mary A. | Asian Intercultural Marriage Couples in the United States. | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
7 | no | 6 | ScienceDirect | Highlights •Keeping size group under control, moving from a heterogeneous class to a low-achieving one reduces density in more than 6 points.•Networks are mainly established within the reference classroom but they exceed these boundaries according to school organization.•High-achieving classroom is the most cohesive, while members of the low-achieving class are distributed in a scattered way across the network.•Ability levels do not have a direct impact on the degree of intercultural contact but they define possibilities of contact between groups. | González Motos, Sheila | Friendship networks of the foreign students in schools of Barcelona: impact of class grouping on intercultural relationships | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
8 | yes | 7 | Academic Search Index | Abstract \nLay summary In this study, multicultural couples’ experience of the impact of culture on their romantic relationships was explored. The sample included eight heterosexual couples cohabiting or married for at least 6 months, and who differed in ethnicity, religion, and native language. Women were from Turkey and men were from Germany, Greece, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Chile, with ages ranging from 22 to 43. The semi-structured in-depth interviews generated data about the cultural differences participants observed about their partners and how those differences affect the romantic relationship. The thematic analysis revealed three major themes: “More Alike Than Different”; “The Difference Is In The Cultures, Not In The Relationship”, and “There Is More Room For Growth”. Although the couples had cultural differences regarding social and familial structures, they emphasized the similarities which kept them together, and engaged in understanding and empathic communication which helped them overcome the cultural differences. The study also provided information that might help practitioners working with multicultural couples. The findings are discussed in the context of the literature on similarity and compatibility, and limitations and suggestions for further studies are presented.This study explored the role of culture on the relationship dynamics of eight heterosexual couples, women from Turkey, and their male partners from different countries. Interviews showed that the partners in these relationships expressed feeling more similar with each other than different, and that they engaged in empathic communication which enhanced marital satisfaction. Results have implications for practitioners working with multicultural couples. | Boratav, Hale Bolak Doğan, Tuğçe Nur Söylemez, Yudum Saydam, Senem Zeytinoğlu | “More Alike than Different”: a qualitative exploration of the relational experiences of multicultural couples in Turkey. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
9 | yes | 8 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), an empirically supported third-wave behavioral approach for the treatment of couples, is examined in this multiple case study. IBCT was developed to help couples navigate challenging differences, so this study examines its use with couples reporting problems arising from differences in self-identified cultural identities, practices, or beliefs. The experiences of three therapists using IBCT in their work with intercultural couples is examined. Each participating therapist in this study contributes by describing one case in which IBCT was used to help the couple with existing conflicts related to cultural differences. These descriptions, provided through written responses to open-ended questions, were examined using cross-case analysis. Results include descriptions of the various stressors faced by intercultural couples, therapists' formulations of cultural differences, change processes and change mechanisms during treatment, and similarities and differences across therapists' reports. Specific quotations that demonstrate main ideas and particularly poignant or useful information are integrated. The study concludes with participating therapists' recommendations for treatment of intercultural couples in general, their recommendations for utilizing IBCT with intercultural couples, and implications for future research. | Kalai, Caroline Eldridge, Kathleen | Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy for Intercultural Couples: Helping Couples Navigate Cultural Differences. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
10 | yes | 9 | ScienceDirect | Highlights •Half of the participants experienced emotional communication problems at the start of their relationship.•Communication difficulties are often linked to lexical and conceptual limitations in the FL and a lack of emotional resonance.•Difficulties typically disappeared in months and the FL could become the language of the heart.•Speed and depth of affective socialisation in the FL was linked to gender and personality. | Dewaele, Jean-Marc Salomidou, Lora | Loving a partner in a Foreign Language | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | no | 10 | ScienceDirect | For more than four decades, issues pertaining to the development of intercultural relationships between international and domestic students in university settings have received scholarly attention. However, there appears to be lack of research exploring the extent to, and the manner in which the individual and environmental dimensions interact with one another to co-create this development. This review addresses this gap by scrutinising English-language refereed journal articles from an ecological and person-in-context perspective. The review, involving a constructionist thematic analysis of systematically searched and screened papers, identified the few empirical studies from that perspective, the vague operationalisation of intercultural relationship development, and the methodological limitations of the empirical work. It also generated content-related themes of the individual–environmental interactions in the development of intercultural relationships. The review concludes by suggesting multiple areas of inquiry that warrant further empirical investigations, and by calling for the amplification and refinement of the research methodologies. | Kudo, Kazuhiro Volet, Simone Whitsed, Craig | Intercultural relationship development at university: A systematic literature review from an ecological and person-in-context perspective | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
12 | yes | 11 | Complementary Index | Many Korean women married to American men have experienced marital conflict and psychological distress. Although some studies examined acculturative distress and marital satisfaction among Korean/American intercultural couples, there is little evidence on the strategies for coping with marital conflict and psychological distress from immigrant women's perspectives. Thus, this qualitative study aims to explore marital conflict, psychological distress, and coping strategies among Korean women who married American men. In-depth interviews were conducted with eleven Korean wives, 20 years or older, married two or more years with their American husbands. The researchers used grounded theory methods – open, selective, and axial coding – for data analysis. The results show that Korean women adopted four strategies for coping with their marital distress, frustration, resentment, and isolation: (a) accepting differences with husbands and finding good things in the differences, (b) focusing on similar values, (c) participating in religious activities, and (d) focusing on work. The study concludes with implications for intercultural marriage, especially marriages involving immigrant women. | Kim, Byungsu Kim, Jeonsuk Moon, Sung Seek Yoon, Seockwon Wolfer, Terry | Korean women's marital distress and coping strategies in the early stage of intercultural marriages. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
13 | yes | 12 | Academic Search Index | Previous research has suggested that couples with different sociocultural backgrounds (DISC) are less stable and less satisfied than culturally homogeneous couples, putatively because of the stressors these couples face, for example, discrimination. However, a review of the literature suggests that findings across studies are somewhat mixed, and correlates of different sociodemographic variables are potentially important. We identified and reviewed 20 studies that examined relationship satisfaction in couples with different and homogeneous sociocultural backgrounds so that comparisons between the two groups were possible and effect sizes could be computed. Overall, our meta‐analysis found no evidence for DISC couples being less satisfied than culturally homogeneous couples, challenging this assumption. Only a few effect sizes, with large confidence intervals, suggested lower relationship satisfaction in DISC couples than in culturally homogenous couples, and these differences may be explained by demographic correlates. Based on our findings, we provide recommendations for relationship researchers conducting research on DISC couples. | Uhlich, Maximiliane Luginbuehl, Tamara Schoebi, Dominik | Cultural diversity within couples: Risk or chance? A meta‐analytic review of relationship satisfaction. | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | no | 13 | ScienceDirect | This study investigates facework strategies of managing face-threatening acts in intercultural interactions where communicators’ cultural backgrounds are different from each other. Based on a pre-study with U.S. (n=89) and Chinese (n=76) college students, four scenarios featuring intercultural face-threatening acts were developed, where a Chinese student communicated politely and appropriately according to the Chinese culture, but the exact same act was considered otherwise in U.S. culture. In the main study, U.S. college students (N=217) were given these scenarios and asked to report the general level of face needs, perceived face threats, and facework strategies in each scenario. Multilevel analyses (i.e., Hierarchical Linear Modeling) were employed to parse out the different levels of influence in order to understand both separate and joint impacts of situational face threats and individual face needs on facework strategies. Results showed that: 1) intercultural communicators use both mitigating (i.e., fleeing) and aggravating (i.e., fighting) facework strategies, and a slight preference is given to mitigating strategies; 2) facework strategies are more sensitive to particular situational conditions than to individual dispositions; and 3) individuals’ value for others’ face moderates the relationship between situational conditions and facework strategies. The current study provides empirical evidence of challenges in establishing meaningful intercultural relationships by identifying the multiple levels of impact on facework strategies in intercultural communication. Further discussion and implications of the findings are also included. | Guan, Xiaowen Lee, Hye Eun | Fight and flight: A multilevel analysis of facework strategies in intercultural face-threatening acts | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
15 | no | 14 | ScienceDirect | Objectives Blastocystis hominis (B. hominis) is one of the most common intestinal parasites isolated in humans. The parasite can cause gastrointestinal symptoms or, in most cases, remain asymptomatic. There are issues concerning the parasite's pathogenic character. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the parasite infection by B. hominis, with or without other parasitic co-infections. | Ocaña-Losada, C. Cuenca-Gómez, J.A. Cabezas-Fernández, M.T. Vázquez-Villegas, J. Soriano-Pérez, M.J. Cabeza-Barrera, I. Salas-Coronas, J. | Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of intestinal parasite infection by Blastocystis hominis | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
16 | yes | 15 | Academic Search Index | Can the meaning‐making within an intercultural couple, and between this couple and their therapist, help us to understand the couple's bitter conflict and the difficulties of dealing with it in therapy? This single case study answers this question, presenting a semantic analysis inspired by Ugazio's model of family semantic polarities. The analysis was carried out by applying the family semantic grid II to 140 min from three video‐recorded and transcribed sessions with the couple. The result suggests that the misunderstandings and disappointments that fed the couple's conflict were connected with the lack of semantic cohesion within the couple. They constructed meanings during the therapeutic conversation using two different semantic worlds: the semantics of power and of freedom. The analysis also suggests some possible strategies to overcome the couple's conflict, and raises some questions about how to address racial differences during therapy. Practitioner pointsAn intercultural couple's bitter conflict is clarified by a semantic analysis (SA) which highlights the couple's low semantic cohesion.The SA suggests focusing on the emotions – shame and courage – underlying the partners' dominant semantics – power and freedom – and anchoring the meanings to all the family members.Therapists should address 'race' and racism with intercultural couples, even if such conversations do not emerge spontaneously in their narrated stories. | Ugazio, Valeria Singh, Reenee Guarnieri, Stella | The 'Arab spring' within an intercultural couple. Does the unmentioned 'racial difference' matter? | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||
17 | no | 16 | ScienceDirect | This research uses schema theory and expectancy violations theory as a framework to examine students’ expectations about homestay, factors that facilitated and constrained student–host interaction, and the construction of student–host relationships during study abroad. Through journaling, American students answered specific questions about their experiences living with a host family during an eight-week summer semester in Luxembourg. Participants indicated that they expected interactions to function, in part, like family. However, less than a third of the participants described their relationships with their hosts as family. Instead, the relationships functioned as friendships, guest–host relationships, or tenant–landlord relationships. A number of factors facilitated and constrained their opportunities to communicate with the hosts. Students’ expectations about the homestay also appear to be shaped, in part, by the language used to describe the arrangement. Implications for study abroad programs are discussed. | Rodriguez, Stephanie Rollie Chornet-Roses, Daniel | How ‘Family’ is your host family?: An examination of student–host relationships during study abroad | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | no | 17 | ScienceDirect | Three paradoxes have been revealed in the study of business networks by Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) researchers. These are: seeking opportunities and then facing limitations, influencing others and yet being influenced in turn, and controlling and yet being out of control in network situations. These paradoxes have previously received little critical evaluation. This article investigates these paradoxes through in depth interviews with twenty-two business managers in Chinese–Western intercultural relationships. Three specific dilemmas relating to the fundamental Chinese cultural principle of guanxi are revealed. These dilemmas are: dilemmas between strong personal ties (guanxi) and weak personal ties, dilemmas between previous understandings and new learning of guanxi ties, and conflicting obligations between inner and outer circles of guanxi networks. These guanxi dilemmas occur in emerging Chinese–Western intercultural networks, irrespective of the specific cultural variations, contractual constraints, or corporate policies applying. This paper identifies a need for more acute study of guanxi cultural norms and their behavioral consequences in emerging Chinese–Western intercultural relationships, given the rise of China in the global economy. | Gao, Hongzhi Ballantyne, David Knight, John G. | Paradoxes and guanxi dilemmas in emerging Chinese–Western intercultural relationships | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
19 | yes | 18 | Directory of Open Access Journals | This study aims to examine the dimensions of the conflicts arising from the interactions of two different cultures in intercultural marriages and to examine under which conditions and the level to which cultural adaptation is provided. This study was conducted with 35 participants who have an intercultural marriage and live in Antalya Province’s Alanya District, where people from many cultures and nationalities can be encountered due to Alanya being a tourist region. This study obtained the data using the semi-structured interview method to investigate the conflict and adaptation that may occur as a result of intercultural marriages. The snowball technique has been used to access the participants. At the end of the interviews conducted with these individuals, foreign spouses’ process of adapting to the Turkish family structure and culture, what they’ve acquired from experiencing cultural conflict, and what conflict and adaptation processes they experienced were examined within the scope of family and social environments. The findings from the study have been compiled within the framework of conflict and adaptation as a result of cultural interaction. | Hatice Ersoy Çelik Bedir Sala | An Analysis of Interactions in Intercultural Marriages: A Field Study of Alanya | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | yes | 19 | Academic Search Index | The intercultural context that characterises our multicultural society demands thorough studies on intercultural relationships. The present work aims to explore adolescent's acculturation strategies in relation to their learning contexts with different ethnic class composition. The present research includes 241 adolescents attending schools in Italy. Our results show acculturation strategies significantly differ among the three groups in life domains. However, the acculturation process introduces a similar course for the three groups; nevertheless the Italian adolescents present a tendency for separation. Moreover, the results highlight that acculturation strategies differ in relation to the ethnic composition of the school class. | Linhof, Angela Y. Allan, Robert | A Narrative Expansion of Emotionally Focused Therapy With Intercultural Couples. | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | no | 20 | ScienceDirect | The intercultural context that characterises our multicultural society demands thorough studies on intercultural relationships. The present work aims to explore adolescent's acculturation strategies in relation to their learning contexts with different ethnic class composition. The present research includes 241 adolescents attending schools in Italy. Our results show acculturation strategies significantly differ among the three groups in life domains. However, the acculturation process introduces a similar course for the three groups; nevertheless the Italian adolescents present a tendency for separation. Moreover, the results highlight that acculturation strategies differ in relation to the ethnic composition of the school class. | Migliorini, Laura Rania, Nadia Cardinali, Paola | Intercultural Learning Context and Acculturation Strategies | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||
22 | no | 21 | Academic Search Index | Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The article focuses on language experiences shared by female expatriates and aims to investigate the circumstances which are related to their language acquisition and communication in the couple. The research question concerns the degree of socialization of these women into the Polish language as adult bilinguals via marriages to Poles. Design/methodology/approach: Based on my recent data from in-depth interviews, analyzed by means of qualitative methodology, I concentrate on the sociolinguistic complexity of bilingual couples in Poland. Data and analysis: I analyze excerpts of interviews produced by eight couples of immigrant women who settled down in Poland to live with Poles. I investigate these women's talk with regard to their subjective evaluations of language repertoires resulting from their individual histories of L2 acquisition and their language ideologies reflected in communication patterns with their Polish husbands. Findings/conclusions: My data suggest that language competence relates to the communication quality in cross-lingual and intercultural couples, as subjectively assessed by the target women. I found evidence for apparent reshuffles in language repertoires, an appreciation for formal language learning and the specific hierarchy of priorities in private communication. The results reveal language attitudes which affect the dyadic communication and the sense of ethnicity among mixed couples. Originality: The article views multilingualism and immigration from a new perspective by giving the voice to women living in bilingual couples. The novelty relies on the less studied Polish context where immigrant women from different ethnic backgrounds share language experiences and life situations. Significance/implications: This is significant because the qualitative investigation of the socialization process through language helps understand and interpret linguistic phenomena in terms of the meanings brought to intercultural relationships. | Stępkowska, Agnieszka | Language experience of immigrant women in bilingual couples with Poles. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | yes | 22 | Academic Search Index | This study aims to examine the dimensions of the conflicts arising from the interactions of two different cultures in intercultural marriages and to examine under which conditions and the level to which cultural adaptation is provided. This study was conducted with 35 participants who have an intercultural marriage and live in Antalya Province's Alanya District, where people from many cultures and nationalities can be encountered due to Alanya being a tourist region. This study obtained the data using the semi-structured interview method to investigate the conflict and adaptation that may occur as a result of intercultural marriages. The snowball technique has been used to access the participants. At the end of the interviews conducted with these individuals, foreign spouses' process of adapting to the Turkish family structure and culture, what they've acquired from experiencing cultural conflict, and what conflict and adaptation processes they experienced were examined within the scope of family and social environments. The findings from the study have been compiled within the framework of conflict and adaptation as a result of cultural interaction. | Çelik, Hatice Ersoy Sala, Bedir | An Analysis of Interactions in Intercultural Marriages: A Field Study of Alanya. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
24 | no | 23 | ScienceDirect | The hospitality industry depends to a great extent on migrant employees for its day-to-day operations. Cyprus’ accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004 saw an influx of migrant employees, mainly from ‘New Europe’, a development which posed and continues to pose, numerous organizational challenges. Adopting a qualitative methodology, the study set out to investigate migrants’ employment experiences in Cyprus, via the views of three different groups of employees; managers, local and migrant employees. Findings, can inform both industry stakeholders and academic scholars, while enhancing our collective knowledge regarding migrants’ contributions to the industry, ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors of migrant employment, their intercultural relationships with the host population, and the impacts that migrant employment can have on the service delivery process. | Zopiatis, Anastasios Constanti, Panayiotis Theocharous, Antonis L. | Migrant labor in hospitality: The Cyprus experience | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
25 | yes | 24 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Globalization, technological advances, and increasingly flexible social norms have contributed to more widespread intercultural relationships, particularly in multicultural societies such as the United States. In this paper, the authors use Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems framework (i.e., the macrosystem, exosystem, microsystem, chronosystem) to review the factors involved with entry and adjustment in intercultural relationships. Relationship entry is discussed in terms of how people of different cultural backgrounds meet, interact, and intimately relate. Factors that impact the likelihood of entering an intercultural relationship are outlined. Adjustment refers to the manner in which partners cope with the dyadic tensions that impact their relationship satisfaction and functioning. Compared to intracultural couples, intercultural couples are at a higher risk of experiencing adjustment problems over the course of the relationship. Therefore, suggestions are provided to help these couples minimize conflict and optimize satisfaction. Factors relating to relationship identity and cultural negotiation also are discussed. A of the most important clinical ideas to emerge from the literature on intercultural couples in the United States, as well as clinical suggestions for therapists working with these couples, are provided at the end of the paper. | Silva, Luciana C. Campbell, Kelly Wright, David W. | Intercultural Relationships: Entry, Adjustment, and Cultural Negotiations. | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||
26 | no | 25 | Academic Search Index | This study investigates how international exchange students from North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia exercised agency and power and created their autonomy through experiential learning to cooperate with local schools and organisations in Japan. Empirical research on international students’ intercultural experiences in Western countries has grown; however, research on their intercultural experiences in Japan is lacking in English publications. This research qualitatively examined how international students from various cultural backgrounds attempted to cooperate with locals in Japan’s emic world. Results revealed that intercultural frame-switching did not occur automatically, and international students could not cope with the intercultural competence required in Japanese society. Facing intercultural challenges, students exhibited a separation orientation to preserve their cultural identities, valuing their agency and autonomy, and found ways to exercise power independently. Educational interventions can expand students’ potential for developing intercultural relationships with locals from the host society. | Tsunematsu, Naomi | Agency, autonomy, and power of international students in interactions with local society in Japan through an experiential learning project. | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||
27 | yes | 26 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Intercultural romantic relationships have increased worldwide. Yet, there is a lack of empirical knowledge about intercultural couples. The studies that do suggest that intercultural couples have higher rates of conflict and long‐term instability, but most studies have measured intercultural couples using categorical responses of race/ethnicity, which limits theoretical insight to the interpersonal characteristics that make up high‐quality intimate relationships. This review integrates findings from several research fields into a new model, called the culturally based romantic relationship (CBR2) model, to understand how similarities/differences in within‐person emotional processes and relationship norms relate to between‐person emotional functioning, and in turn relationship quality. Theoretical models of this nature are essential because they can impact therapy and counseling programs developed for diverse groups of people, but also advance research fields that are related to culture, emotions, and interpersonal relationships. | Fonseca, Ana Laura Ye, Tony Koyama, Jill Curran, Melissa Butler, Emily A. | A theoretical model for understanding relationship functioning in intercultural romantic couples. | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
28 | no | 27 | Gale Academic OneFile | This research explored the academic and non-academic lived experiences of higher degree onshore international doctoral students studying in one Australian university. While the academic dimension of experiences included curricular, resource, research and supervision issues, the non-academic dimension focussed on students' inter-personal experiences. Students were required to engage in a series of personal and professional transitions to engage with higher degree research programs in Australia. The findings of this research revealed that, for international doctoral students to survive and succeed at the Australian postgraduate university experience in one Australian context, several factors are important, and a series of transitions must occur. These factors and transitions range from matters related to university guidance and counselling, research and supervision experience, and the difficulties implicit in developing both pedagogical and interpersonal or intercultural relationships. The findings provide deeper insights into the experiences of international doctoral students through transitional positioning of their personal and professional behaviours Keywords: international students, lived experiences, higher education research, doctoral students | Aspland, Tania Datta, Poulomee Talukdar, Joy | Transitioning into the Australian higher education experience: The perspective of international doctoral students | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
29 | yes | 28 | SocINDEX with Full Text | To explore the internal dynamics of intercultural marriage, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 married couples, of whom one partner was born in Israel and the other immigrated from the former Soviet Union. The interviews focused on the contentious issues of everyday life: self-identity, language use, cultural consumption, relations with the families/friends, division of household labor, and childrearing. The findings point to a clear tendency for immigrants to make most adjustments to the norms and expectations of the Israeli spouses and their social networks. For most immigrant spouses, the selective acculturation they had hoped for at the outset in fact morphed into relentless assimilation. The Israelization was expressed in the exclusive use of Hebrew in these homes; preference of Israeli spouse's families, friends, and pastimes, Israeli style in cooking and housekeeping, as well as Israeli-Hebrew socialization of the children. The drift towards the hegemonic culture experienced by the Russian wives was stronger than for the Russian husbands. The findings are discussed in the light of gender differentials in power relations, comparative statuses of Hebrew and Russian cultures in Israel, and possible self-selection of individuals wishing to leave their culture of origin via out-marriage. | Remennick, Larissa | Exploring Intercultural Relationships: A Study of Russian Immigrants Married to Native Israelis. | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | yes | 29 | Directory of Open Access Journals | This paper explores factors associated with intergenerational differences in home-based acculturation (HBA) and the attitude of Chinese college students and their parents toward intercultural marriage with a focus on China’s cultural context where parents have a strong influence on child’s decisions. In two related studies, we recruited a total of 749 Chinese college students and parents (387 in Study 1 and 362 in Study 2; all are living in China) to participate in the survey. The results indicate that (a) online intercultural contact is positively associated with HBA; (b) HBA is a strong predictor of attitude of intercultural marriages by Chinese parents and college students and the socioeconomic status has a divergent effect on the two groups; and (c) Chinese college students and parents differ in terms of their HBA and online intercultural contact. Findings from the research add knowledge to our understanding of the impact of globalization and digitalization on acculturation and Chinese residents’ perspectives on intercultural marriage. | Qingqing Hu Peng Pan Xiaochun Chen | Home-Based Acculturation and Chinese Attitude Toward Intercultural Marriage: A Cross-Generational Comparison | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
31 | no | 30 | Complementary Index | Crossing Cultures is a university-based research initiative that is part of London Metropolitan’s Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE) which aims to develop a new pedagogical model. The focus is to provide an inclusive learning environment that facilitates intercultural relationships and group learning, equipping students with essential skills for a globally connected world beyond the subject of architecture. We have paired the design studio activities in London with a field experience of live engagement in southern Italy, in a region suffering from depopulation, while simultaneously experiencing the arrival of asylum seekers. The confluence of these opposing developments creates a need to rebuild local communities and presents an exceptional opportunity for our students to become agents of change. The article outlines how, through the creation of an additional teaching and learning platform for multi-disciplinary research outside the boundaries of the university campus, this teaching practice is raising social capital by attracting and integrating students and asylum seekers alike, adding to population and economic growth. The article concludes by highlighting the unique opportunity to scale up this hybrid studio/field study model, which has arisen because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What is proposed is that now, as universities are developing blended learning delivery models, our observations could feed into a new, expansive model for studying architecture as a student-in-residence mode of study. | Denicke-Polcher, Sandra | Reactivating underpopulated areas through participatory architecture in southern Italy by creating a home for newcomers. | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||
32 | yes | 31 | Academic Search Index | This study was performed to determine how a family function changes across intercultural and intracultural married couples. The subjects for the were 126 Ukrainian immigrant women and 158 Turkish women married to Turkish men living in Turkey. The family function of intercultural and intracultural families was measured using Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale IV (FACES IV) developed by Goral and Olson in 2006. The mean family adaptability score for Turkish wives was 24.96 and 25.41 for Ukrainian wives, respectively. Families with Turkish wives scored higher on both balanced subscales (cohesion and flexibility) than families with Ukrainian wives, while families with Ukrainian wives scored slightly higher on all four unbalanced levels (enmeshed, disengaged, chaotic and rigid) than families with Turkish wives. Despite their nationality, those women who obtained higher education degrees, practiced the same religion as their husbands, and did not suffer from financial or familial pressure were found to be more balanced, and had better family communication, and overall higher family satisfaction. | KRYVENKO, Yulia | COMPARING FAMILY ADAPTABILITY AND COHESION ACROSS UKRAINIAN-TURKISH AND TURKISH COUPLES: FEMALE PERSPECTIVE. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
33 | yes | 32 | Academic Search Index | This study explored attachment and cultural values in relation to conflict management and relationship satisfaction in intercultural relationships. Results indicate that secure attachment is related to greater relationship satisfaction and healthier conflict management. Cultural values of family solidarity, adherence to traditions and customs, and equality are associated with greater relationship satisfaction. When levels of adherence to traditional gender roles are low or moderate, secure attachment is positively related to relationship satisfaction and lower conflict avoidance. Este estudio exploró los valores culturales y de apego respecto a la gestión de conflictos y la satisfacción con la relación en parejas interculturales. Los resultados indican que el apego seguro está relacionado con una mayor satisfacción con la relación y una gestión de conflictos más saludable. Los valores culturales de solidaridad familiar, observancia de tradiciones y costumbres, e igualdad están asociados con una mayor satisfacción con la relación. Cuando los niveles de conformidad con los roles de género tradicionales son bajos o moderados, el apego seguro está relacionado de forma positiva con la satisfacción con la relación y una menor evasión de conflictos. | Paradis, Grace | Navigating Intercultural Relational Dynamics: The Roles of Attachment and Cultural Values. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
34 | yes | 33 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Intercultural couples - partners from two different countries - may face increased levels of stress within their relationship (internal stress). Although internal stress is negatively associated with relationship satisfaction, communication of such stress can help foster partners' coping behaviors. Specifically, partners can engage in positive dyadic coping (DC) to help lower stress levels and improve relationship satisfaction. Despite the wealth of research on DC, examination of the associations of stress communication and DC in intercultural couples has been limited. To address this gap in the literature, this study used a sample of 73 self-identified heterosexual intercultural couples to examine their perceptions of internal stress, and associations between DC and relationship satisfaction. Cross-sectional survey data revealed negative main effects for both individuals' own and their partner's perceptions of internal stress on relationship satisfaction, and positive main effects for all forms of positive DC with relationship satisfaction. Stress communication by oneself moderated the association between partner's perceived internal stress and one's own relationship satisfaction, such that relationship satisfaction was higher when partners reported more engagement in stress communication at lower levels of internal stress. However, there were no significant main association between negative DC and relationship satisfaction, or significant moderations for any type of DC. Implications for relationship researchers and mental health professionals working with intercultural couples are discussed. | Holzapfel, Jenny Randall, Ashley K. Tao, Chun Iida, Masumi | Intercultural Couples' Internal Stress, Relationship Satisfaction, and Dyadic Coping. | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
35 | no | 34 | ProjectMUSE | Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese-born writer who moved to Scotland in her mid-twenties and now resides there, where she writes her critically acclaimed fiction in English. Though her novels have received much attention and praise in the UK, she is less known to American audiences. And yet, post-9/11 and amid our current national climate of fear and division, stoked by a jingoistic and racist president, our country and culture cry out for books like hers—works that painstakingly examine the East-West divide, illuminating the richness and complexity of intercultural relationships through the lives of characters who refuse to be pigeonholed; who remind us that humans are singular creatures who remain united by common needs: for a sense of home, for family, for love. Aboulela's latest novel, Bird Summons, will be released by Grove/Atlantic in February 2020. It follows three women who embark on a road trip to the Scottish Highlands that transforms into a journey of self-discovery in which the women grapple with the conflicting demands of family, duty, and faith. I completed this interview via email over the course of several weeks in fall 2019. | Parssinen, Keija | Writing as Spiritual Offering: A Conversation with Leila Aboulela | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||
36 | yes | 35 | Complementary Index | Hu, Qingqing Pan, Peng Chen, Xiaochun | Home-Based Acculturation and Chinese Attitude Toward Intercultural Marriage: A Cross-Generational Comparison. | 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | no | 36 | Gale Academic OneFile | For more than four decades, studies of higher education have espoused the significance of fostering intercultural interactions between international and domestic students, yet numerous studies have provided widespread evidence of limited interactions between these cohorts and limited development of long-lasting relationships, such as friendship. After reviewing the conceptualisations of intercultural relationship development and their limitations in the extant literature, this paper outlines the rationale for a three-stage ecological and person-in-context conceptual framework of the development of intercultural relationships in university contexts. The proposed framework addresses: the issue of loose conceptualisations of intercultural relationships in the literature; the overlooked phenomena of dynamic interactions between individual and environmental dimensions that co-contribute to intercultural relationship development; and the developmental nature of intercultural relationships. The main proposal underpinning the framework is that the development of intercultural relationships occurs at the dynamic experiential interface between environmental affordances and students' agency, both of which evolve along three stages of relationships (i.e. interactivity, reciprocity and unity). The framework, illustrated by empirical data, addresses aspects of intercultural relationships that have been neglected in the higher education literature, and that are expected to stimulate further educational research and practices in various (inter-)national/regional and institutional contexts. | Kudo, Kazuhiro Volet, Simone Whitsed, Craig | Development of intercultural relationships at university: a three-stage ecological and person-in-context conceptual framework | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
38 | yes | 37 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This article explores gender perspective in clinical work with couples whose romantic choices fall across cultural, racial and religious lines. A conceptual framework is presented to track the dimensions of differences between the two partners in intercultural couples (collective vs. individualistic). The article illustrates how emotional expressiveness, continuum of autonomy, gender differentiation, and sexuality play out in intimate cross-cultural relationships. It also shows how the embedded, culturally assigned gender beliefs and roles are addressed in treatment. Examples from the author’s clinical work are presented throughout the article. | Kellner, Judith | Gender Perspective in Cross-Cultural Couples. | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
39 | no | 38 | ScienceDirect | The introduction of the Spanish Constitution in 1978, together with the development of the Statutes of Autonomy in the autonomous communities, established the co-official status of the regional language alongside Spanish. In one of these communities, Catalonia, located on the north-west boundary of the Lleida province, is the Aran Valley, where three languages coexist: Occitan-Aranese (regional language), Catalan (Catalonia's co-official language) and Spanish. The Valley of Aran is an ideal setting to study the construction of their collective identity and its relation to the language in an intercultural setting. As a result of immigration and the gradual decrease in the population born in the region, intercultural contact takes place among clearly distinct groups. In this work we present an analysis of the development of the Aranese identity and of the role language plays in this process and the way this process influences intergroup relationships. The study is based on a perspective that considers that the influence of language on the creation of collective identity is not a categorical and universal phenomenon [Fernández, M. A. (2000). Cuando los hablantes se niegan a elegir: monolingüismo e identidad múltiple en la modernidad reflexiva. Estudios de Sociolingüística 1 ( 1), 47–58; Siguán, M. (1996). L’Europa de les Llengües. Barcelona: Edicions 62]. Rather, we view language as a socially constructed means of expressing community membership. In this way, language plays an important part in the formation of Aranese identity, but the meaning given by the population to the language varies according to whether residents identify themselves or not with the Aranese world. At the same time, language also interferes in the relationship between the different groups living in the territory. | Lapresta, Cecilio Huguet, Ángel | A model of relationship between collective identity and language in pluricultural and plurilingual settings: Influence on intercultural relations | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
40 | yes | 39 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This paper argues for the need to better understand intercultural relationships among rural youth. Altered relations of labour, finance and power have seen the growth of international migrant labour across rural spaces of the Global North from the Global South, notably nations of the Pacific, Asia and Africa (Argent, N. 2011. "What's New about Rural Governance? Australian Perspectives and Introduction to the Special Issue." Australian Geographer 42 (2): 95–103). This paper focuses on Australia, where labour relations, humanitarian programs, visa categories and mobility desires have led to new rural futures (Hugo, G. 2014. "Immigrant Settlement in Regional Australia: Patterns and Processes." In Rural Change in Australia: Population, Economy, Environment, edited by R. Dufty-Jones and J. Connell, 52–82. Farnham: Ashgate). Young people are at the forefront of these changes, with youth forging pathways and relationships for themselves and their families. However, within the burgeoning literature of rural intercultural relations we know little about young people's social relationships within these transforming places. This paper outlines a framework to progress such an agenda and focuses on conditions, capacities and identity resources within rural trajectories. It argues that empirical scholarship on these intersecting concepts may generate insights into young people's relationships within today's transforming rural multicultures. | Butler, Rose | Young people's rural multicultures: researching social relationships among youth in rural contexts. | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
41 | yes | 40 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This article presents advice for intercultural parents, based on findings of a qualitative study that examined how intercultural parents negotiated their cultural differences. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with fourteen intercultural heterosexual couples/parents in South East Queensland. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data and understand the meanings of participants' experiences. The findings revealed that not only aspects of cultural background, but also systemic and contextual factors impacted on the experiences of intercultural parents. Advice for intercultural parents is described from three systemic perspectives: the individual sphere, the couple/parent sphere and the child's sphere. Practical implications for therapists and counsellors working with intercultural parents are discussed. Practitioner points Find value in cultural differences and similarities in parenting style to form a balanced view, Explore benefits and opportunities of intercultural parenting as source of strength, Use culture as a valuable source for change, Assume the role of mediator and interpreter when dealing with conflicts in cultural code, Practice cultural sensitivity and reflexivity, Conflict may be due to processes other than culture, such as emotional processes. Explore power dynamics in parenting | Bhugun, Dharam | Parenting advice for intercultural couples: a systemic perspective. | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
42 | yes | 41 | Directory of Open Access Journals | Studies on the patterns of marital selection began in the 1920s, and since then researchers have identified a set of variables that should be taken into account in marriage selection research. In this study the following variables are considered: age, nationality, race, social class, environmental background, attitude to faith, religion, attitude to religious practices, education, current employment status, previous marital status, number of marriages, number of children from previous marriages, and financial situation before the present marriage. One hundred and twelve Polish women who married foreigners from non-European cultures took part in the study. Their husbands were representatives of African, Asian and Australian countries; none of them came from Europe or the Americas.The aim of the study is to examine marital selection among intercultural marriages and to provide new knowledge on the subject. In connection with the adopted topic, the purpose of the research and the analysis of the literature on the subject, the main problem of the research was formulated as follows: what are the similarities and differences in marital selection in intercultural marriages?The study revealed that, in most cases, marital selection among the couples who participated in the study followed a similar social biography: the spouses were of a similar age (79.5%) and shared race (90.1%), social class (74.1%), environmental background (61.6%), education (56.2%), attitude to faith (92.8%), and their financial situation before the present marriage (65.2%). The results obtained confirmed Farle’s theory, in which he distinguished three main factors influencing the frequency of intercultural marriages: military service, higher education and place of residence. The analysis of the data indicates that the majority of the respondents lived in big cities (57.1%), and higher education was the most common level of education among both the respondents (60.7%) and their husbands (41.1%). | Ewa Agata Sowa-Behtane | Marital Selection in Intercultural Marriages | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
43 | no | 42 | Academic Search Index | This study uses the concept of uncertainty in general, and specifically objective and subjective uncertainty, as a framework for understanding how a widow experiences grief and attempts to reestablish her sense of self. It investigates how widows understand, internalize, and act on objective and subjective uncertainty and the interplay between them. Objective uncertainty usually refers to more concrete situations or conditions, for example, health and finances, and there is more consensus regarding them, whereas subjective uncertainty is more individual and volatile, and refers to relationships or interpretation of the objective conditions. The researcher used a combination of participant observation and semistructured interviews. of widows from different socioeconomic classes and ethnic groups. The research revealed that uncertainty plays a large role in the widows' attempt to live new "suddenly single" lives and that they experience both subjective and objective uncertainty, with subjective uncertainty playing a greater role. Further research is needed to understand the effect of different familial and societal "uncertainty avoidance cultures" on widows experiencing multi-ethnic or multinational identities either by descent of intercultural marriage. | Kenen, Regina | Uncoupled: American Widows in Times of Uncertainty and Ambiguous Norms. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
44 | no | 43 | Academic Search Index | This paper explores how immersion and engagement with different cultures in the home environment impacts Korean children's intercultural learning. More specific attention is given to the experience of nine Korean children whose families have voluntarily served as homestay host families and hosted foreign guests for more than seven years. This qualitative inquiry is drawn from data including participant observations, semi-structured interviews with children and their parents, and the collection of artefacts and documents. Four themes were identified regarding the impact of homestay hosting experiences on the focal children: (1) experiencing intercultural encounters in the home environment; (2) building close, long-lasting intercultural relationships; (3) recognising preconceived prejudices and undoing cultural stereotypes; and (4) challenging a singular and oversimplified representation of cultures. Given the modern, global context in which children engage in frequent contacts with individuals from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the findings demonstrate the necessity of fostering intercultural learning among school-aged children and suggest homestay programmes are a potential means for developing students' intercultural learning in a local context. | Kwon, Jungmin | Intercultural learning in the home environment: children's experiences as part of a homestay host family. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
45 | no | 44 | Gale Academic OneFile | To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.03.017 Byline: Kaisa S. Pietikainen [kaisa.pietikainen@nhh.no] Keywords Silence; Conflict; Conversation analysis; English as a lingua franca; Intercultural relationships Highlights * In conflict discourse, silence at transition relevance position indicates trouble. * Avoiding self-incriminating SPPs; resisting laughable-initiated change of footing. * sustained disagreement; taking offence; and unsuccessful persuasion. * Silences are treated as repairables by the non-silent party. * Conversation analysis is applicable to the detailed study of silence-in-interaction. Abstract Conversation analysts commonly agree that speakers tend to minimize gaps between adjacency pairs, and that silence in this position is likely to indicate trouble. However, there are surprisingly few sequential analyses that investigate what kinds of trouble silences indicate, particularly in conflict interactions and in intercultural contexts. This paper examines the practice of withholding a response as an interactionally meaningful device in domestic disputes among couples who use English as their common lingua franca (ELF). By investigating the ways in which these speakers orient to transition-relevance place silences in the subsequent turns, it is concluded that noticeable silences in domestic ELF conflict talk are treated by the interlocutors as marking the following: 1) avoiding self-incriminating second pair-parts, 2) resisting laughable-initiated changes of footing, 3) sustained disagreement, 4) taking offence, or 5) unsuccessful persuasion. The most common ways in which the speakers then orient to such silences are also reviewed. The analysis shows that turn-by-turn micro-analysis is an efficient methodology for examining the situational inferences of silence-in-interaction. Author Affiliation: Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, 5045 Bergen, Norway Article History: Received 30 November 2016; Revised 13 March 2018; Accepted 15 March 2018 | Pietikainen, Kaisa S. | Silence that speaks: The local inferences of withholding a response in intercultural couples' conflicts | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
46 | yes | 45 | Academic Search Index | Intercultural romantic relationships and multicultural families have increased in the United States and worldwide. Researchers have found that intercultural couples report high rates of conflict and relationship instability, which may be partly explained by differences between partners in relationship goals (e.g., how much intimacy is desired and how to approach conflict). Using data from 40 intercultural couples (N = 80), we test whether greater similarity in relationship goals between romantic partners is related to greater perceived partner responsiveness and, thereby, greater relationship quality. By means of Bayesian analyses, our results suggest that similarity of relationship goals is associated with both perceived responsiveness and relationship quality, but without evidence of mediation. Our results show that cultural similarities and differences exist in relationship goals in intercultural couples, and they are connected to relationship functioning. This information can be used to assist clinicians in understanding the interpersonal processes that make-up healthy relationship functioning in intercultural couples. | Fonseca, Ana Laura Ye, Tony Curran, Melissa Koyama, Jill Butler, Emily A. | Cultural Similarities and Differences in Relationship Goals in Intercultural Romantic Couples. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
47 | no | 46 | ScienceDirect | Japan is the world's fastest “graying society.” Numerous experts advocate expanding the non-Japanese workforce to prevent a debilitating labor shortage. To promote positive intercultural relations between Japanese and incoming non-Japanese workers, it is prudent to examine which factors have contributed to creating a smooth acculturation process so far for both groups vs. those which have not. This research aimed to do so by assessing how the acculturation strategy compatibility between Japanese and American coworkers affected their quality of intercultural relations ( N = 194). Bourhis and colleagues’ Interactive Acculturation Model (“IAM”) was used to predict which acculturation strategy combinations were most likely to produce positive intercultural relationships. With the independent variable of acculturation strategy alignment (i.e., Consensual, Problematic, and Conflictual acculturation strategy combinations, or “IAM types”), five dependent measures of quality of intergroup relations were employed. Statistical analyses revealed that Conflictual IAM types often scored lower on the dependent measures than Consensual or Problematic IAM types—as predicted by the IAM. However, Consensual IAM types did not score significantly higher than Problematic ones on any of the dependent variables, which contradicted one of the IAM's fundamental premises. Problematic IAM types’ constructive use of stress, as well as their deeper acculturation to their cultural outgroup, likely resulted in them posting comparable scores to Consensual types. Consequently, Consensual and Problematic types were expanded to four subtypes to better explain these findings. Finally, recommendations were made for modifying acculturation expectations among Japanese and Americans to better integrate both groups into their work organizations. | Komisarof, Adam | Testing a modified Interactive Acculturation Model in Japan: American–Japanese coworker relations | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
48 | yes | 47 | Directory of Open Access Journals | Intercultural couples - partners from two different countries - may face increased levels of stress within their relationship (internal stress). Although internal stress is negatively associated with relationship satisfaction, communication of such stress can help foster partners’ coping behaviors. Specifically, partners can engage in positive dyadic coping (DC) to help lower stress levels and improve relationship satisfaction. Despite the wealth of research on DC, examination of the associations of stress communication and DC in intercultural couples has been limited. To address this gap in the literature, this study used a sample of 73 self-identified heterosexual intercultural couples to examine their perceptions of internal stress, and associations between DC and relationship satisfaction. Cross-sectional survey data revealed negative main effects for both individuals’ own and their partner’s perceptions of internal stress on relationship satisfaction, and positive main effects for all forms of positive DC with relationship satisfaction. Stress communication by oneself moderated the association between partner’s perceived internal stress and one’s own relationship satisfaction, such that relationship satisfaction was higher when partners reported more engagement in stress communication at lower levels of internal stress. However, there were no significant main association between negative DC and relationship satisfaction, or significant moderations for any type of DC. Implications for relationship researchers and mental health professionals working with intercultural couples are discussed. | Jenny Holzapfel Ashley K. Randall Chun Tao Masumi Iida | Intercultural Couples’ Internal Stress, Relationship Satisfaction, and Dyadic Coping | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
49 | no | 48 | Academic Search Index | An introduction is presented in which the authors discuss articles in the issue on topics including the value of secure attachments in intercultural relationships, cultural stigma and impediments that affect the engagement of gay Chinese men in therapeutic services, and emotional and cognitive needs of sexual minority college students in South Korea who revealed their sexual orientation to other people. | Burt, Isaac Jenkins, Kalesha | Editorial Commentary. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
50 | no | 49 | Directory of Open Access Journals | Research on study abroad (SA) reported American students’ struggles of developing personal relationships with local people. Theses studies often focus on American students’ perceptions on their SA experiences as well as intercultural interaction. Because personal relationships cannot be built without mutual understanding and acceptance, obtaining the local people’s perceptions toward intercultural relationships is essential to addressing American students’ struggles. This case study investigates American and Japanese local students’ perceptions towards building intercultural relationships in a four-week SA program in Japan. Interviews were conducted with American college students who participated in the SA program, and Japanese students who participated in the program as Japanese language partners. The paper presents the local Japanese students’ struggles with the American students’ passive attitude and too formal behaviors, and American SA students’ struggles with casual speech style usage. Based on the findings, this paper discusses the implications for pre-departure orientations, the limitations of the current and future research implications. | Hiromi Tobaru | Understanding the Difficulties in Building Intercultural Relationships from Perspectives of American Students and Japanese Students during a Short-term Study Abroad in Japan | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
51 | no | 50 | Academic Search Index | To enable culturally congruent family health care nursing, the family belief systems theory proposed by Hohashi can be utilized. The family belief systems theory, developed through family ethnographic studies and questionnaire surveys conducted in the United States, Japan, China, Indonesia, and the Philippines, explains (a) structurization of a system, based on the family member's beliefs as cognition criteria, in which family member's emotions, decisions/acts, and physical responses (including health problems) occur; and (b) the process in which family beliefs are formed from family members' beliefs, by which intentional decisions/acts by the family (family decision making, family self-management, etc.) are performed. By identifying the mechanism of family belief systems, the nursing professional, through support for family/family members' beliefs, can completely change the intentional decisions/acts by the family. | Hohashi, Naohiro | A Family Belief Systems Theory for Transcultural Family Health Care Nursing. | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
52 | no | 51 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This article explores the ways in which the white working‐class residents of a suburban English town reflect on their relationships with their British Asian Pakistani Muslim neighbors. Its focus is on how everyday constructions of home become sites for the intermingling of discourses of intercultural conviviality and racism. My contention is that the idea of home has not yet been given the detailed critical attention that it deserves in the sociological literature on everyday manifestations of multiculturalism, conviviality, and racism. My supposition is that a special focus on the idea of home as the site of conviviality offers a productive avenue to analyze how intercultural relationships are formed and how the norms of neighborliness are thought to break down, opening a space for commonplace racialized and racist stereotypes to take hold. The idea of home is central to the rhythm and landscape of the English suburbs. It conjures up the idea of a uniform and aspirational white space. Drawing on this imaginary of home, I shall trace how "white working class" "English," "Scottish," and "Anglo‐Italian" residents' everyday constructions of home become embroiled with their relationships with their British Asian Pakistani Muslim neighbors. | Tyler, Katharine | Suburban ethnicities: Home as the site of interethnic conviviality and racism. | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
53 | yes | 52 | Academic Search Index | This article focuses on Africa-origin male marriage migrants who settle in Australia through their inter-ethnic relationships with Australian women. Male marriage migrants, many of whom are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, expected to find happiness in their intimate intercultural relationships, and in their new and promising geographical and social contexts. This article is based on extensive interview data with these male marriage migrants and demonstrates that while men imagined that their lives in Australia with their intimate partners would be good, their everyday lived experiences turned out differently. For many of these men, marriage migration undermined their sense of self and understanding of what it means to be a man and a husband. Through the journey of marriage migration, their Australian spouses were bestowed with unforeseen power over them, challenging expected gender roles and resulting in a myriad of dependencies and ultimately unhappiness amongst the men. These findings are significant because male marriage migrants often are assumed to only be marrying for visa purposes instead of romantic reasons. This article investigates the often overlooked experiences of men from African countries who are pursuing Ahmed's [(2010). The promise of happiness. Durham: Duke University Press.] 'happiness project' through marriage migration to Australia, experiences that are a factor in explaining relationship breakdowns. | Hoogenraad, Henrike | Marriage migration as happiness projects?: Africa-origin male marriage migrants' experiences with marriage migration to Australia. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
54 | no | 53 | Complementary Index | Purpose: Allowing for interaction with foreign cultures without the need to travel, intercultural virtual collaboration represents a potential tool to develop business students' intercultural competence. This study aims to explore students' perceptions towards the implementation of a research-based task sequence in a project in which undergraduate Business students from Spain collaborated virtually with undergraduate business students from The Netherlands during a semester. More specifically, this paper investigates what intercultural competence indicators were mostly developed by the sequence implemented; how much each task from the sequence in question developed different intercultural competence indicators; and how much students enjoyed participating in each task. Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected through after-task reflection questionnaires. A quantitative analysis of Likert-type questions was carried out and open-ended responses were used to illustrate findings. Findings: Results reveal that the task sequence developed different dimensions of students' intercultural competence and, particularly, fostered a positive attitude towards intercultural relationships, increased students' cultural knowledge and awareness and equipped students with skills to work in diverse teams. It also showed that as complexity grew along the sequence, the average students' perception of their intercultural competence development tended to decrease. The majority of students' very much liked participating in the different tasks. Originality/value: Designing telecollaborative projects can be very challenging and understanding the learning potential of different pedagogical strategies for virtual collaborative environments can help teachers to take better-informed decisions. | Ferreira-Lopes, Luana Elexpuru-Albizuri, Iciar Bezanilla, María José | Developing business students' intercultural competence through intercultural virtual collaboration: a task sequence implementation. | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
55 | no | 54 | ERIC | Cultural humility is a critical skill for effective intercultural interactions. While common in other scholarly fields, the concept is seldom found in the literature of global learning and international education. Utilizing grounded theory, this study explores the development of cultural humility through qualitative data analysis of in-class assignments and reflection journals from a university course in the United States (n=18). Throughout the semester students worked in teams to write grant proposals for agricultural development projects in Kenya. Examining student work and reflections sheds light on differing avenues of global learning, which has traditionally prioritized international travel as the core means of learning. This article proposes a pedagogy of cultural humility to promote global learning through a variety of educational interventions. Prioritizing cultural humility can yield enhanced respect for others, providing a focus on lifelong learning, more meaningful global understanding and more fruitful intercultural relationships. In an increasingly interconnected globe, cultural humility offers a meaningful framework to support substantive interactions between individuals across the globe or down the street. | Habashy, Noel Cruz, Laura | Bowing Down and Standing Up: Towards a Pedagogy of Cultural Humility | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
56 | no | 55 | ERIC | In the divided society of Israel, educators committed to the future and the well-being of young people should incorporate peace education in all the dimensions of doing and learning in the educational system. While the formal educational system does not have a peace education policy, throughout the country, many schools undertake diverse practices of peace education. However, these practices have neither succeeded in changing students' attitudes and emotions about other groups members, nor have they succeeded in transforming conflictual relationships, between different social-ethnic-religious groups, into relationships of trust, understanding, and reciprocity. In this article, I review the accepted practices of peace education and suggest a potential explanation of the failure of these practices. The main purposes of the article are first to argue that many educators, who engage in peace education, aspire to cultivate tolerant, or even pluralistic relationships among the conflicting groups, while not engendering intercultural relationships that might "endanger" group identities. The second purpose is to suggest a possible solution, namely, to use humor. Using humor in peace education -- in a way that is cognizant of the different cultural sensitivities -- might lead to attentive dialogue among the groups and improve peace education's effectiveness. | Basman-Mor, Nurit | Saving Peace Education: The Case of Israel | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
57 | yes | 56 | Academic Search Index | According to U.S. Census Bureau data (2003), intercultural relationships are on the rise, and much has been written on cultural differences in marriage. Furthermore, a significant amount of literature has discussed differences in parenting based on racial, ethnic, and religious value differences between culturally different families. However, much less has been written on how parenting amplifies differences because of cultural diversity within a family. The purpose of this article is a review of the literature specifically on intercultural parenting. Differences that arise in intercultural relationships are briefly reviewed, followed by how those differences can be managed. Finally, a review of the literature specific to intercultural differences in parenting style and the development of a transcultural family is discussed. | Crippen, Cheryl Brew, Leah | Intercultural Parenting and the Transcultural Family: A Literature Review. | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
58 | no | 57 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This research explores the effects of counseling based on mindfulness and acceptance on the marital conflict of intercultural married women in Iran. The population of this study was all intercultural married women in Isfahan city, Iran. After interviewing for finding suitable participants, a total number of 30 participants were recruited and assigned to two matched groups of control and experiment. Participants in both groups were asked to complete a demographic questionnaire and revised marital conflict questionnaire. Experimental group then completed the 8 weekly, 90 min counseling based on Gehart’ treatment plan (Mindfulness and acceptance in couple and family therapy, Springer, New York, 2012), the control group did not receive any intervention. After the completion of the counseling, participants in both groups were asked to complete the questionnaires as post-test. Results indicate that this program affected marital conflict in participants and significantly decrease it. Due to numerous Challenge in the life of intercultural couples, designing and implementing effective intervention plans seems necessary and constructive. | Nasr Isfahani, Nargess Bahrami, Fatemeh Etemadi, Ozra Mohamadi, Rahmat Allah | Effectiveness of Counseling Based on Mindfulness and Acceptance on the Marital Conflict of Intercultural Married Women in Iran. | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
59 | yes | 58 | Directory of Open Access Journals | Intercultural couples face cultural conflicts in their marriage, resulting in internal minor stress. Stress as a dyadic phenomenon – commonly found in marriage – affects both individuals involved in the relationship. As a result, couples experience low levels of marital satisfaction. Forty-five intercultural couples from Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi Bandung, and Pekanbaru completed this study. The highlight of this study was the use of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model in the data analysis, using the APIM_SEM application. The result from this study implied that internal minor stress affected marital satisfaction at an individual level, however, no significant effects were found in the partner-effect. | Wisnuwardhani, Dian Putri, Natazsa Octria | The Effect of Internal Minor Stress on Marital Satisfaction in Indonesian Intercultural Couples | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
60 | yes | 59 | Academic Search Index | This article provides a review of the literature on intercultural couples counseling since the publication of Falicov's ‘Cross-Cultural Marriages’ and a critique of a racially based definition of inter-cultural. It examines conceptualization of intercultural couples, relevant issues arising in counseling, and therapeutic strategies. Little empirical research has been done with intercultural couples to assist with conceptualization problems and useful interventions. | Sullivan, Christopher Cottone, R. Rocco | Culturally Based Couple Therapy and Intercultural Relationships: A Review of the Literature. | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
61 | yes | 60 | Academic Search Index | This qualitative research used a strength-based approach to examine how intercultural couples in Japan managed their cultural differences during the transition to parenthood. This study reveals the strengths of intercultural couples, namely, the resources they have acquired and the lessons they acquired throughout the marriage process. These made the intercultural couples resilient and able to maintain a mutually satisfactory relationship. Prior to parenthood, the main resources were Intrapersonal, Strength Shared by Two, and Acceptance by Extended Family and Friends. Once the intercultural couples became parents, two new resources appeared: Growth of Parent-Child Relationship and Enhanced Partnership. Regarding the lessons learned, Couple Communication, Adjusting and Respecting, What-is-Best-for-Us, and Self-Care were identified. The couples were successfully turning cultural differences into minor issues or even opportunities. The findings not only may help practitioners to support intercultural couples but also provide implications for all who are involved in intercultural settings. | Kuramoto, Makiko | Strength of Intercultural Couples in the Transition to Parenthood: A Qualitative Study of Intermarried Parents in Japan. | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
62 | no | 61 | ScienceDirect | Cross-cultural living is accompanied by a myriad of stressors that precipitate coping responses of assimilation (reliance on pre-existing methods) and accommodation (development of new ones). Utilizing a quantitative, longitudinal design, the study examined whether assimilation or accommodation was more effective in enhancing adjustment of 155 Taiwanese students studying in the United States. Specifically, social affiliation with Taiwanese (assimilation) and Americans (accommodation) during their second semester of study was hypothesized to mediate the impact of pre-departure personality on functional adjustment and emotional well-being in the third semester, controlling for acculturative stressors encountered in the first semester. Multivariate analyses showed that affiliation with Americans partially mediated the effect of extroversion on functional adjustment, supporting the effectiveness of accommodation. In addition, extroversion diminished depression level while acculturative stressors reduced functional adjustment and well-being. Finally, women enjoyed more intercultural relationships than men. Altogether, these findings suggest the utility for orientation programs that involve American peers to assist with cross-cultural adjustment, particularly for Taiwanese men. | Ying, Yu-Wen Han, Meekyung | The contribution of personality, acculturative stressors, and social affiliation to adjustment: A longitudinal study of Taiwanese students in the United States | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
63 | no | 62 | ScienceDirect | The study examines the relationship between immigrants’ adaptation, acculturation strategies and self-monitoring. One-hundred-and-sixty-two Polish immigrants (mean age=31.3 years, SD=7.28) living in Rome participated in the study. The majority of the participants (66.0%) were females. A Questionnaire containing scales for assessing Sociocultural adaptation, Psychological adaptation, Attitudes towards social relationships with Italians and Poles, and Self-monitoring was administered. Using adaptation indices as criteria in moderated multiple regression analyses, we found main effects of self-monitoring and of assimilation and integration strategies, and interactive effects of self-monitoring and assimilation or integration strategy. Self-monitoring was positively related both to sociocultural and psychological adaptation in all the regressions. Assimilation and integration strategies in most of cases were also positively related to both types of adaptation. Such main effects, however, were qualified by the interactive effects. As far as sociocultural adaptation is concerned, simple slope analysis showed that: (a) the positive effect of choosing assimilation is much stronger for high self-monitor immigrants than for low self-monitor ones; (b) the effect of choosing integration is positive for low self-monitor immigrants, but negative for high self-monitor ones. As far as psychological adaptation is concerned, simple slope analysis shows that: (a) the effect of choosing assimilation is negative for high self-monitor immigrants and positive for low self-monitor ones; (b) the positive effect of choosing integration is stronger for high self-monitor immigrants than for low self-monitor ones. The implications of the findings for intercultural relationships are discussed. | Kosic, Ankica Mannetti, Lucia Sam, David L. | Self-monitoring: A moderating role between acculturation strategies and adaptation of immigrants | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
64 | yes | 63 | Gale Academic OneFile | This article presents a qualitative, phenomenological study which explored cross-cultural marital adjustment among intermarried Iranian American women and their European American husbands. Twelve couples participated in individual and joint interviews. Analysis of the interviews suggests that although cross-cultural differences exist between the couples, these differences were not preventing successful marital adjustment. The interviews revealed that successful marital adjustment relied heavily on certain positive features or "strengths," which worked as buffers to cross-cultural differences. The findings of this study add to the limited literature on Iranian Americans, intermarriage, and cross-cultural marital adjustment, and have implications for counselors and marriage and family therapists working with cross-cultural couples. | Ruebelt, Sara Garrow Singaravelu, Hemla | Exploration of Cross-Cultural Couples' Marital Adjustment: Iranian American Women Married to European American Men | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
65 | no | 64 | Gale Academic OneFile | To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2016.08.005 Byline: Sheila Gonzalez Motos Abstract: * Keeping size group under control, moving from a heterogeneous class to a low-achieving one reduces density in more than 6 points. * Networks are mainly established within the reference classroom but they exceed these boundaries according to school organization. * High-achieving classroom is the most cohesive, while members of the low-achieving class are distributed in a scattered way across the network. * Ability levels do not have a direct impact on the degree of intercultural contact but they define possibilities of contact between groups. Author Affiliation: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Article History: Received 13 November 2015; Revised 2 August 2016; Accepted 28 August 2016 | Motos, Sheila GonzaLez | Friendship networks of the foreign students in schools of Barcelona: impact of class grouping on intercultural relationships | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
66 | yes | 65 | Gale Academic OneFile | Intercultural competence has drawn much scholarly attention since 1980s. However, among the plethora of research few of them explore the concept of cultural integration competence. This paper aims to conceptualize cultural integration competence through defining the concept, identifying its dimensions and components, and proposing a conceptual model. Cultural integration competence is defined as the ability to build up cultural link, facilitate mutual adaptation, and develop harmonious intercultural relationships. It consists of four dimensions: the affective, the cognitive, the behavioral, and the desired outcome. The first three dimensions together lead to the desired outcome, which in turn contributes to the development of cultural integration competence. [Xiaodong Dai & Guo-Ming Chen. Intercultural Competence and Harmonious Intercultural Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Insights. China Media Research, 16(2):13-23]2 Keywords: integration, cultural integration competence, harmonious intercultural relationships | Dai, Xiaodong Chen, Guo-Ming | Conceptualizing Cultural Integration Competence | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
67 | yes | 66 | Directory of Open Access Journals | The article focuses on identity in bilingual couples by investigating their attitudes to language and culture. The research question asks how they make sense of their linguistic and cultural duality. Based on the data from in-depth interviews, I concentrate on the notion of identity in bilingual couplehood. I analyze excerpts of interviews produced by 24 couples of Poles with their foreign partners who reside in Poland. I investigate these couples’ talk with regard to their interpretations of identities resulting from their individual life histories and private ideologies about language and culture. My data suggest that attitudes to language and culture relate to the mutual understanding in the couple. I found evidence for differences and similarities as subjectively assessed by partners, higher metalinguistic awareness, an altered perception of one’s self and redefined national stereotypes. The results reveal that the couples’ attitudes are geared to jointly create and negotiate identities in interaction. The article views identity from a new perspective by giving voice to bilingual couples. The novelty relies on the less studied Polish context and, in general, the explicit evaluation of one’s own socialization to a different language and culture. The qualitative lens of the presented study contributes to our understanding of how individuals in intercultural couples use language to convey dual identity and accomplish social goals. | Stępkowska Agnieszka | Identity in the bilingual couple: Attitudes to language and culture | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
68 | no | 67 | SocINDEX with Full Text | The highly visceral ways in which forms of consubstantiality are produced between kin in Indigenous Australian social worlds can be explored through close attention to local understandings of bodily substances and their modes of exchange and transformation. Recalling here Paul Schilder's observation that 'our attitude towards the different parts of the body can be to a great extent determined by the interest other persons take in our body' (1964: 299), this paper traces some of the ways in which images of the self and others are deployed in Euro-Australian ('whitefella') and Kimberley Aboriginal[This paper] ('blackfella') images and practices circulating around the provision, avoidance and consumption of meat which is, of course, nothing if not an assortment of bodily parts which most human-beings have an abiding interest in. The circulation of meat is something which is focal to a great range of Kimberley social relationships and inevitably comes to permeate the organisation of the never-ending stream of meetings with Euro-Australians through Aboriginal land councils and other local government agencies. | Redmond, Anthony | Meetings with and without meat: How images of consubstantiality shape intercultural relationships in the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||
69 | no | 68 | ScienceDirect | Background Viral hepatitis is a significant health problem in African countries. The increase in the immigrant population from this continent represents a challenge for the Spanish healthcare system. | Cuenca-Gómez, J.A. Salas-Coronas, J. Soriano-Pérez, M.J. Vázquez-Villegas, J. Lozano-Serrano, A.B. Cabezas-Fernández, M.T. | Viral hepatitis and immigration: A challenge for the healthcare system | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
70 | no | 69 | Gale Academic OneFile | Across the world, women experience violations to their reproductive health and threats to their educational aspirations that limit their achievement. Reproductive health and education are examples of women's human rights that are connected by systemic gender inequalities that lead millions of women to experience discrimination and stereotyping that threaten these basic rights. The current study uses a reproductive justice framework to examine how a community-based organization led by a group of women in rural Nicaragua challenges gendered psychosocial processes related to women's rights violations. In partnership with a grassroots local organization, we used structural equation modeling to demonstrate, in a sample of almost 300 women, that organizational participation was positively related to women's reproductive decision-making and educational aspiration, in part due to relationships with women's self-esteem and sense of powerlessness in sociopolitical matters. Given the persistent role of gendered inequities in the reproductive decision-making and educational aspirations of girls and women, considering the social-structural contexts that enable or limit rights is imperative to creating viable routes to gender justice. Biographical information: SHELLY GRABE is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on women's rights and social justice in the context of globalization. Together with grassroots organizations in Nicaragua and Tanzania, her work centers the activism and voices of women in the areas of violence and political participation. She's used multiple methods to demonstrate links between transnational feminism, human rights, and the attention given to women's "empowerment" to help contribute to social change. Grabe has been awarded the Denmark-Reuder Award for Outstanding International Contributions and the Georgia Babladelis Award from Psychology of Women Quarterly for her transnational contributions. She has two recent book publications with Oxford Press that underscore the role of women's resistance to sociocultural norms that violate women's human rights. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ RAMIREZ is a Peruvian PhD student in social psychology with a designated emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies. He holds a MEd in counseling psychology, and he has conducted quantitative and qualitative research on relationship styles, health risk behaviors, and intercultural relationships. Currently, he is being mentored in transnational feminist psychology research by social psychologist Shelly Grabe, focusing on intersectional feminist activism in women's movements in Latin America using decolonial feminist and psychology of liberation theoretical frameworks. As a volunteer in the UC Santa Cruz Women's Center MINT program in 2016, he mentored women-identified students in the process of applying to graduate schools. He also coordinated and redesigned the curriculum of UC Santa Cruz Graduate Division's Graduate Student Leadership Certification Program in 2017-2018, by incorporating feminist, inclusive, collaborative, and counter-hegemonic leadership styles. As a 2018 Graduate Pedagogy Fellow for UCSC's Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, he focused on ways to critically engage students in active learning and inclusive teaching, and as a 2018 Summer Graduate Pedagogy Mentor, he mentored instructors in creating learning communities to keep seeking ways to better serve undergraduate students in the social sciences. Currently, Daniel is volunteering as a graduate research assistant in a youth Participatory Action Research project with 9-year Latinx youth around issues of migration. ANJALI DUTT is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on psychological processes associated with resistance to oppression and increasing the realization of human rights in different contexts. She collaborates with grassroots community organizations to conduct mixed-methods research, exploring how structural change and community opportunities impact well-being and the realization of human rights. Her current projects involve participatory research on refugee rights and integration in the United States, documenting the lives and actions of women of color working to uphold human rights, and exploring the impact of neoliberal ideology on various attitudes, beliefs, and (in)actions related to human rights. Article Note: This article is part of the Special Issue "Reproductive Justice: Moving the Margins to the Center in Social Issues Research" Asia A. Eaton and Dionne P. Stephens (Special Issue Editors). For a full listing of Special Issue papers, see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josi.2020.76.issue-2/issuetoc. Byline: Asia A. Eaton, Dionne P. Stephens, Shelly Grabe, Daniel Rodriguez Ramirez, Anjali Dutt | Eaton, Asia A. Stephens, Dionne P. Grabe, Shelly Rodriguez Ramirez, Daniel Dutt, Anjali | Reproductive Justice: The Role of Community-Based Organizational Participation in Reproductive Decision-Making and Educational Aspirations among Women in Nicaragua | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
71 | no | 70 | Complementary Index | In this essay I examine the four illustrations of Eleanor Sleath’s 1815 children’s novel Glenowen as nexuses of Wales and the East in the English imagination, proprietary education, and the powers of the imagination. Welsh and eastern identities intersect in the images, which include, for instance, Welsh peasants and “fairies” in Indian shawls together, and the “fairy palace” adorned with Oriental imagery nestled within the Welsh mountains. I argue that through images that depict mollified portrayals of these hegemonic intercultural relationships for children, and framing them such that they fortify contemporary mores surrounding childhood education and imagination, Glenowen perpetuates Welsh and eastern colonialisms. Consequently, the novel also exemplifies how the relationships between cultural hegemonies and education were translated for children in word and image. In addition to considering their roles in Glenowen, this essay also brings into conversation scholarship on these major themes, and presents new avenues for explicating the interactions between book illustration, children’s literature, and British colonialisms. | Jones, Matthew C. | Wales and the East in Eleanor Sleath’s Glenowen; or the Fairy Palace (1815). | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
72 | no | 71 | Emerald Insight | Purpose Allowing for interaction with foreign cultures without the need to travel, intercultural virtual collaboration represents a potential tool to develop business students’ intercultural competence. This study aims to explore students’ perceptions towards the implementation of a research-based task sequence in a project in which undergraduate Business students from Spain collaborated virtually with undergraduate business students from The Netherlands during a semester. More specifically, this paper investigates what intercultural competence indicators were mostly developed by the sequence implemented; how much each task from the sequence in question developed different intercultural competence indicators; and how much students enjoyed participating in each task. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected through after-task reflection questionnaires. A quantitative analysis of Likert-type questions was carried out and open-ended responses were used to illustrate findings. Findings Results reveal that the task sequence developed different dimensions of students’ intercultural competence and, particularly, fostered a positive attitude towards intercultural relationships, increased students’ cultural knowledge and awareness and equipped students with skills to work in diverse teams. It also showed that as complexity grew along the sequence, the average students’ perception of their intercultural competence development tended to decrease. The majority of students’ very much liked participating in the different tasks. Originality/value Designing telecollaborative projects can be very challenging and understanding the learning potential of different pedagogical strategies for virtual collaborative environments can help teachers to take better-informed decisions. | Luana Ferreira-Lopes Iciar Elexpuru-Albizuri María José Bezanilla | Developing business students’ intercultural competence through intercultural virtual collaboration: a task sequence implementation | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
73 | no | 72 | Academic Search Index | Introduction: This study explored how global health service learning supported nursing student engagement in the process of cultural humility and how it shaped student understanding of themselves and their ability to develop supportive intercultural relationships. Methods: Written reflections were collected from eight second-year students while on a 9-day practicum in a low-resource Caribbean country. Six students participated in posttrip interviews. Thematic analysis was used to illuminate the students' lived experience. Results: Four student themes emerged: (1) overcoming challenges, (2) opening our eyes, (3) seeing difference as a strength, and (4) learning with and from each other. While participants were inherently ethnocentric, the process of cultural humility curbed their sense of superiority and enabled the development of supportive intercultural relationships with their hosts. Discussion: This global health service learning was an effective strategy to enhance student nurses' learning about themselves and intercultural relationships and to develop the attributes of cultural humility. | Sedgwick, Alicia Atthill, Stephanie | Nursing Student Engagement in Cultural Humility Through Global Health Service Learning: An Interpretive Phenomenological Approach. | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
74 | yes | 73 | Academic Search Index | In this article, the author describes the unique issues associated with intercultural marriage. A case illustration provides the springboard for presenting specific pastoral care and counseling strategies that may be helpful to intercultural couples. These strategies include assessing worldview and acculturation, creating spiritual and cultural genograms, reframing cultural challenges, collaborating with indigenous healers, inventing new rituals, and developing the advocacy role. | Frame, Marsha Wiggins | The Challenges of Intercultural Marriage: Strategies for Pastoral Care. | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||
75 | yes | 74 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Rates of international migration are increasing, which raises the question of how migration might influence couple relationship standards and impact on the standards of migrants forming intercultural relationships. We compared relationship standards in n = 286 Chinese living in Hong Kong, China, with standards in n = 401 Chinese migrants to a Western country (Australia) by administering the Chinese‐Western Intercultural Couple Standards Scale (CWICSS). We also compared these two groups to n = 312 Westerners living in Australia. We first tested the structural invariance of the CWICSS across the three samples with a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. There was marginal but acceptable fit of a model of two positively correlated latent factors: Couple Bond (with four indicators, such as demonstration of love and caring) and Family Responsibility (also with four indicators, such as extended family relations and preserving face). Within the limitations of the study, results suggest migration is associated predominantly with differences in women's, but not men's, relationship standards. Migrant Chinese women show alignment of Couple Bond standards with Western standards, and divergence of Family Responsibility standards from Western standards. Discussion focused on how migration and intercultural relationship experiences might differentially influence various domains of relationship standards, gender differences in migration effects on standards, and the implications for working with culturally diverse couples. Video Abstract | Halford, W. Kim Leung, Patrick Hung‐Cheung, Chan Chau‐Wan, Lau Hiew, Danika Vijver, Fons J. R. | Couple Relationship Standards and Migration: Comparing Hong Kong Chinese with Australian Chinese. | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
76 | no | 75 | Gale Academic OneFile | Despite the robust literature about teaching intercultural competence, little has been written on exploring culture in community-based English as a second language (ESL) settings, such as classes for adults with immigrant and refugee backgrounds. Educational materials about culture designed for these contexts tend to be prescriptive and essentializing, displaying rules and norms without inviting dialogue or accounting for variation. This article addresses this gap by dialogically exploring perceptions of adults in a community-based ESL class toward cultural themes, with the goal of moving toward reflective pedagogy about culture in community-based ESL contexts. Data, which were collected throughout a 14-week course, include surveys about students' perceived cultural knowledge, interest in learning about culture, and comfort interacting with Americans, as well as student-produced texts and responses to texts exploring cultural themes. Students were eager to dialogue about culture, and they indicated increased cultural understanding and interest after the 14-week course, as well as interest in forming more intercultural relationships. The article presents examples of student-produced texts and invites instructors to consider how to reflectively choose materials, teach, and dialogue about culture in community-based ESL classes. Byline: Amanda Marie Shufflebarger Snell | Shufflebarger Snell, Amanda Marie | A dialogic approach to exploring culture in community-based adult ESL classrooms | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
77 | no | 76 | Academic Search Index | In recent decades, the study of intercultural relations and the complexity of relationships due to the migration phenomenon have become more important for social scientists to analyze. The aim of this article is to show that photovoice, a methodology that belongs to the field of participatory action research, can be a useful qualitative tool in social psychology to analyze intercultural relationships. This method offers participants the opportunity to discuss and interpret their photographs in a group, involving people in a process of active listening and dialogue that can encourage policy makers to promote social change. Social psychology is encouraged to use photovoice to engage communities facing intercultural challenges; thus, a re-appraisal of the Lewin tradition is necessary. Photovoice could be used to “make visible” and meaningful the world of intercultural relationships, eliciting the transformative power of qualitative research. | Migliorini, Laura Rania, Nadia | A qualitative method to “make visible” the world of intercultural relationships: the photovoice in social psychology. | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
78 | yes | 77 | Academic Search Index | Japan is often described as an intricate yet contradictory society in which the elements of the most advanced technologies and ancient cultural traditions coexist. Social cohesion rooted in uniformity and ethnic purity has long been the implicit, normative ideal in Japan, while diversity as intrinsic value is still a relatively new concept. In this monocultural milieu, intercultural couples often encounter issues associated with culturally‐bound notions of gender roles and the societal pressure to conform to the implicit cultural ideal. The distress of unresolved past emotional injuries may also surface, which often results in the couple getting stuck in negative emotional cycles. This paper will discuss the case of Yoko and Frank, who were treated with an affect‐focused approach in which their emotional conflicts, particularly their feelings of shame, were worked through while each partner developed their self‐ and other‐emotion regulating capacity. The therapist also helped the couple develop new patterns of positive emotional interaction. | Iwakabe, Shigeru | Working through shame with an intercultural couple in Japan: Transforming negative emotional interactions and expanding positive emotional resources. | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
79 | yes | 78 | SocINDEX with Full Text | We present an example of the use of narrative therapy with intercultural couples. The narratives focus on the exploration of issues facing many intercultural couples, including acculturation, societal pressures, divergent role beliefs, and the construction of a unique couple identity. Specifically, we discuss how externalizing, reauthoring, and remembering conversations of narrative therapy can help intercultural couples to revision and renew their couple identity. A case application is presented to illustrate two specific narrative interventions with intercultural couples. | Kim, Hyejin Prouty, AnneM. Roberson, PatriciaN. E. | Narrative Therapy with Intercultural Couples: A Case Study. | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||
80 | no | 79 | Academic Search Index | <bold>Objective: </bold>Across a correlational cross-sectional and experimental study, we investigate how contextual variables, such as majority group perceptions, interact with individual variables, such as the relationship between ethnic and national identity, to ultimately influence intergroup relations between bicultural individuals and White Americans.<bold>Method: </bold>Across 2 studies (Study 1, n = 187; Study 2, n = 176), bicultural participants completed a battery of surveys measuring bicultural identity integration, impressions of majority group attitudes, and behavioral intentions targeted at majority group members. Additionally, majority group attitudes were experimentally manipulated in Study 2.<bold>Results: </bold>Individuals with integrated bicultural identities were more likely to approach and less likely to avoid majority members. Although perceptions of negative majority group attitudes are typically associated with negative intergroup relations, individuals with greater harmony (Study 1) and blendedness (Study 2) between their ethnic and national identities were buffered from these adverse effects.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>These findings highlight the importance of both individual and contextual factors in intergroup relations. The distinct effects of blendedness and harmony across self-report and experimental studies have theoretical and practical implications for our understanding of bicultural identity integration. Finally, implications for encouraging more positive intercultural relationships between majority and minority group members will be discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved). | Huff, Sarah T. Saleem, Muniba Rivas-Drake, Deborah | Examining the role of majority group attitudes and bicultural identity integration on bicultural students' behavioral responses toward White Americans. | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
81 | yes | 80 | Academic Search Index | This study examined communication in intercultural marriages. A qualitative approach using in-depth interviews with 18 individuals in nine marriages made up of one Caucasian American and one Asian spouse was employed in order to examine their perceptions of communication effectiveness, the communication competence they developed to address cultural differences, and how they manage conflicts. Findings show that intercultural couples’ communication is primarily influenced by personal growth, language fluency, and the differences between high-context and low-context communication styles. Additionally, self-awareness, open-mindedness, mindfulness, showing respect, self-disclosure, and face-support emerged as the most important areas of communication competence developed and used by the couples. Essential strategies for addressing conflicts constructively include changing perspectives and using open communication. Implications for intercultural communication competence theory are discussed and a framework for intercultural marriage communication is proposed. | Tili, Tiffany R. Barker, Gina G. | Communication in Intercultural Marriages: Managing Cultural Differences and Conflicts. | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||
82 | yes | 81 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Even if the concepts of identity and culture have been questioned by scholars for quite a while now, especially in relation to their "solid" understanding (Bauman 2001; Baumann 2001), they remain central in everyday discourses on interculturality. The phenomenon of "seeing culture everywhere" as analysed by Briedenbach & Nyiri (2009) is still very much present in daily life and research, often leading to stereotyping. In this article, my focus is on five intercultural couples in Finland and Hong Kong. Many studies have been published on this type of population and they often tend to adopt a "culture-alibi" and/or differentialist approach (Abdallah-Pretceille 2003; Piller 2002; Dervin 2010). The specificity of the couples here is that they share a lingua franca to communicate, i.e. a language of which none of the partners are "native speakers". My approach is constructivist and is interested in how the couples potentially use differentialist discourses on cultures and other identity markers to talk about "intercultural couplehood" and the stereotypes associated with them. I shall show how stereotypes in such intimate relations are produced, negotiated and also questioned by the partners during research interviews. | DERVIN, Fred | Do intercultural couples "see culture everywhere"? | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
83 | no | 82 | ERIC | Amidst the milieu of free and at-cost L2 language software applications coming into existence for use on mobile devices and computers, adult L2 learners are faced with the challenge of selecting their best choice for them to use in acquiring a specific second language. Their selection is based on their individual need and the context in which they plan to use the second language. More importantly, it is well known there is no single tool, resource, or strategy that adult L2 learners can use to fully acquire a second language quickly and effectively, especially for intercultural couples who lack a common language for daily communication. While there is much literature on the topic of L2 acquisition and learning, the purpose of this auto-ethnographic study is to share with readers specific aspects of our journey in acquiring each other's native language throughout their first year together. Included are subsequent findings involving cognition and translation issues as developing skills recognized during various phases of L2 acquisition. | Elliott, Robert W. Chen, Xiaolei | Cross-Cultural L2 Learning Exchange: A Qualitative Examination of Strategies, Tools, Cognition and Translation Outcomes | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
84 | yes | 83 | Academic Search Index | This article focuses on Africa-origin male marriage migrants who settle in Australia through their inter-ethnic relationships with Australian women. Male marriage migrants, many of whom are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, expected to find happiness in their intimate intercultural relationships, and in their new and promising geographical and social contexts. This article is based on extensive interview data with these male marriage migrants and demonstrates that while men imagined that their lives in Australia with their intimate partners would be good, their everyday lived experiences turned out differently. For many of these men, marriage migration undermined their sense of self and understanding of what it means to be a man and a husband. Through the journey of marriage migration, their Australian spouses were bestowed with unforeseen power over them, challenging expected gender roles and resulting in a myriad of dependencies and ultimately unhappiness amongst the men. These findings are significant because male marriage migrants often are assumed to only be marrying for visa purposes instead of romantic reasons. This article investigates the often overlooked experiences of men from African countries who are pursuing Ahmed’s [(2010). <italic>The promise of happiness</italic>. Durham: Duke University Press.] ‘happiness project’ through marriage migration to Australia, experiences that are a factor in explaining relationship breakdowns. | Hoogenraad, Henrike | Marriage migration as happiness projects?: Africa-origin male marriage migrants’ experiences with marriage migration to Australia. | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
85 | yes | 84 | ProjectMUSE | Rogers, Hope | No Triumph without Loss: Problems of Intercultural Marriage in Tolkien’s Works | 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||
86 | yes | 85 | SocINDEX with Full Text | The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of cultural backgrounds of spouses on leisure (couple and individual) and marital satisfaction among Korean-American and East European-American married couples. In particular, the study examined challenges faced by intercultural unions that were related to their leisure engagements and the role of leisure in improving marital satisfaction. The data were collected with the use of in-depth one-on-one interviews. The results showed the importance of shared leisure time as a component of marital satisfaction among intercultural couples. Leisure allowed them to develop shared interests and provided opportunities for healthy communication and spending quality time together. Spouses faced unique problems in leisure related to differences in native languages, communication styles, and social behavior. They also employed a number of strategies to increase their marital satisfaction, including (a) restructuring leisure, (b) proactively using leisure to address potential marital problems, and (c) providing opportunities for positive seclusion. | Sharaievska, Iryna Jungeun Kim Stodolska, Monika | Leisure and Marital Satisfaction in Intercultural Marriages. | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
87 | no | 86 | Gale Academic OneFile | This study investigated the extent to which interpersonal distance in intracultural and intercultural relationships is influenced by predispositions toward communication, operationalized as communication apprehension (CA) and self-reported communication competence (SPCC). Data collected from domestic U. S. and bilingual international participants from high context cultures revealed they similarly were less apprehensive and more competent, and felt more certainty and satisfied and experienced greater interpersonal solidarity when communicating intraculturally. U.S. citizens and international expatriates in the U.S. high in CA and/or low in SPCC were less satisfied communicating intraculturally, and Americans reported less interpersonal solidarity, but neither Americans or internationals reported less certainty in intracultural communication. When interacting interculturally, Americans low in SPCC were less certain and satisfied, and experienced less solidarity, while internationals were less certain and experienced less solidarity. These findings indicate that individuals from both low- and high-context cultures who possess trait predispositions to avoid communication because of high in CA and/or low in SPCC structure intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships to create comfort zones to manage their anxiety and distress. Also, levels of certainty, satisfaction, and interpersonal solidarity experienced interculturally are influenced by the differing emphasis placed on oral communication by low- and high-context cultures, and by different norms for communicating with outgroups. [China Media Research. 2014; 10(1): 72-88] Keywords: Communication Apprehension, Communication Certainty, Communication Competence, Communication Satisfaction, Interpersonal Solidarity, Individualism-Collectivism, Low-High Context | Allen, Jerry L. O'Mara, Joan Long, Kathleen M. | The influence of communication traits and culture on perceptions of distance in intracultural and intercultural relationships in the United States | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
88 | no | 87 | Academic Search Index | The article focuses on the analysis of the aspects of training of future teachers within the modern multicultural society. The modern process of education is characterized by an interacting process of globalization. The multicultural orientation is reflected in the educational standards of teachers' preparation. These processes cause reform of the education system for Bachelors and Masters of pedagogical specialties. A modern future teacher should be able to create a dialogue with all the participants of the society and human intercultural relationships within the educational process. The article identifies pedagogical conditions for the effectiveness of the formation of students' culture of logical thinking. The solutions of the stated goal were provided by a set of methods: systemic interviewing, nonstandard tasks, and interactive educational technologies, oriented on the forming of logical skills, testing, questioning, statistical method. The authors of the article offer a number of recommendations for more-effective ways of training future teachers. Special emphasize should be made on the formation of a positive motivational component which is oriented on the realization of personality's potential abilities and gives the opportunity to form and to develop logical thinking. The article contains the strategy of forming a positive attitude and positive motivational atmosphere within the educational process, the method of nonstandard educational work (case study which presents the way of formation multicultural thought, brainstorms, discussions, on-line conferences, mind-maps, etc). The methods of charting, through which students were able to discuss the term or the notion, analyzing positive and negative features, were used for the formation of a culture of logical thinking. Diagnostics of the quality level of students' logical skills by questioning to determine the level of formation of abilities to analyze, to compare, to determine the main idea, to generalize and to make correct conclusions. The strategy, oriented on the creation of a dynamic atmosphere, on the mobilization of the students' logical thinking is proposed. | Khalabuzar, Oksana Kondratieva, Olena Chykil, Maria Nikishyna, Tetiana | Formation of Students' Logical Thinking within the Multicultural Educational Society. | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
89 | no | 88 | Directory of Open Access Journals | Cultural humility is a critical skill for effective intercultural interactions. While common in other scholarly fields, the concept is seldom found in the literature of global learning and international education. Utilizing grounded theory, this study explores the development of cultural humility through qualitative data analysis of in-class assignments and reflection journals from a university course in the United States (n=18). Throughout the semester students worked in teams to write grant proposals for agricultural development projects in Kenya. Examining student work and reflections sheds light on differing avenues of global learning, which has traditionally prioritized international travel as the core means of learning. This article proposes a pedagogy of cultural humility to promote global learning through a variety of educational interventions. Prioritizing cultural humility can yield enhanced respect for others, providing a focus on lifelong learning, more meaningful global understanding and more fruitful intercultural relationships. In an increasingly interconnected globe, cultural humility offers a meaningful framework to support substantive interactions between individuals across the globe or down the street. | Noel Habashy Laura Cruz | Bowing down and standing up: Towards a pedagogy of cultural humility | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
90 | no | 89 | Directory of Open Access Journals | In a globalized world, numerous groups of people come into permanent contact with each other and experience psychosocial changes. These changes, produced during contact between culturally different groups, are called acculturation. In the present study, a systematic review was carried out of 18 journal articles that have researched this phenomenon over the last decade (2005-2015) in Spain. The results show that the main topics studied are the areas of nuclear and peripheral acculturation, the role of prejudice in the adoption of one acculturation style or another, the influence of the acculturation strategies adopted on people’s mental health and other variables that influence the process of acculturation. To sum up, there is general agreement on the importance of developing variables such as empathy, managing emotions or social skills in order to promote solidarity and intercultural sensitivity from an early age. | Roberto Martín Julián | ACCULTURATION STUDIES IN SPAIN IN THE LAST DECADE | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
91 | yes | 90 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Although intercultural couples are increasingly the norm there is a paucity of systemic literature on working with interfaith couples and families. This paper, based on composite case examples, attempts to address this gap. I use two examples of couples where one partner is South Asian Muslim, to illustrate four inter-related themes that emerged in the process of the work. The themes were: therapists' positioning, the importance of the wider socio-political context, honour, shame and gendered beliefs, and the family life cycle. I also highlight how embodied and non-verbal representational systemic techniques can be used when working with interfaith couples to access domains of relationality, which may be inaccessible to exclusively verbal strategies. | Singh, Reenee | Intimate Strangers? Working with Interfaith Couples and Families. | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
92 | no | 91 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This author discusses the importance of actively giving voice in clinical supervision and the therapy room to the code of silence around issues of ethnicity, gender, spirituality, and socioeconomic struggles that plague many cross-cultural couples. The author explores obstacles that collude with dominant oppressive discourses in supervision and therapy and provides suggestions for giving voice to issues of ethnicity, gender, spirituality, and socioeconomic status. The author offers strategies for entering a dialogue of cross-cultural exploration using narrative theory via a supervision case. | Estrada, Diane | Supervision of Cross-Cultural Couples Therapy: Giving Voice to the Code of Silence in the Supervision and Therapy Room. | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||
93 | yes | 92 | SocINDEX with Full Text | Interracial couples continue to grow in numbers, though there has been little research aimed to understand the experiences and unique challenges of this population. Among these challenges are stressors associated with the interplay between cultural differences and similarities. In this paper, we present an intervention called the visible invisible grid, that can be used to help interracial and intercultural couples discuss their invisible and visible differences and similarities. To illustrate the intervention, a case example is provided along with contraindications and clinical implications. | Nguyen, Hoa N. D'Aniello, Carissa Hayes, Briana | Exploring Visible and Invisible Differences and Similarities in Couple Therapy. | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
94 | no | 93 | Gale Academic OneFile | To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2016.08.005 Byline: Sheila GonzAaAaAeA lez Motos [sheila.gonzalez@uab.cat] ( Keywords Intercultural relations; Intercultural contact; Friendship; Education; School organization; Ability levels; Ability groups; Social network analysis; Social integration; School segregation Highlights * Keeping size group under control, moving from a heterogeneous class to a low-achieving one reduces density in more than 6 points. * Networks are mainly established within the reference classroom but they exceed these boundaries according to school organization. * High-achieving classroom is the most cohesive, while members of the low-achieving class are distributed in a scattered way across the network. * Ability levels do not have a direct impact on the degree of intercultural contact but they define possibilities of contact between groups. Abstract This paper account for the relational dynamics that take place in high schools: the interculturality level in the networks of foreign students. Relational networks are characterized by their composition based on origin, identifying those exclusively consisting of native students, those in which only foreign students interact, and the intercultural networks themselves, where native and foreign students coexist. At this stage, I analyse the organizational factors that impede the integration of immigrant students in relational networks with presence of native students, as well as other factors that support the establishment of such networks. Specifically, the analysis focuses on how the organization of school classrooms impact the establishment of more or less intercultural relational networks. In short, there is one concern that motivate this paper: the existence of school dynamics that enhance ethnic ghettoization within schools and, therefore, impede social integration. This research includes the analysis of all students enrolled in the last year of compulsory education (16 years-old) of eight high schools in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (for a total of 664 students from 28 classes). The analytical exploitation is based on a quantitative approach and network analysis (UCINET and Netdraw). Main findings show that the identification of the classrooms with certain ability levels seems to imply a greater barrier between classrooms, which can lead to a greater or lower relational cohesion within the class, according to school organitzation. By contrast, ability levels do not have a direct impact on the degree of intercultural contact; although they do exert a significant influence, defining the possibilities of contact between groups. Author Affiliation: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain * Correspondence to: Facultat de CiAaAaAeA?ncies PolAaAaAeA tiques i Sociolo Edifici B, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. Article History: Received 13 November 2015; Revised 2 August 2016; Accepted 28 August 2016 | GonzAaAaAeA lez Motos, Shei | Friendship networks of the foreign students in schools of Barcelona: impact of class grouping on intercultural relationships | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
95 | yes | 94 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This commentary expands on Kellner’s article by discussing clinical practice with Asian and Euro-American couples. Differences in Western and traditional Asian cultural expectations around intimacy and styles of emotional expression can often lead to misunderstanding among couples. Therapy can also be a challenge for couples when they do not share the same first language. A therapist who only speaks English can inadvertently create an alliance with the partner whose first language is English. On the other hand, bilingual therapists who use both English and an Asian language in the session can face challenges differentiating their roles as a therapist versus a translator. Case illustrations are presented to illustrate these challenges. | Shibusawa, Tazuko | A Commentary on “Gender Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Couples”. | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
96 | no | 95 | Academic Search Index | Mexico and the U.S. are closely associated by commerce, culture and family ties. Despite the geographical proximity and the long-standing socio-political history between the two countries, there is limited understanding of cultural differences and similarities. A unique study abroad programme for U.S. and Mexican students was developed based on the contact hypothesis for reducing prejudice and creating stronger intergroup relationships. Students were recruited from a Mexican and a U.S. university for this project. Based on key principles inherent in intercultural education, students were provided with lectures, group projects and opportunities for shared living. They were merged for cultural experiences both in the U.S. and Mexico, including a three-week service learning project in two impoverished Mexican communities. Participants gained practical language skills and a more comprehensive understanding of Mexican migration. The programme also helped reduce cultural stereotypes and demonstrated the benefits of working toward collective goals. Shared experiences for students from diverse cultures hold promise for creating meaningful social integration and fostering international partnerships opportunities for higher education institutions. | Mickus, Maureen Bowen, Denise | Reducing the cultural divide among U.S. and Mexican students through application of the contact hypothesis. | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
97 | yes | 96 | SocINDEX with Full Text | This qualitative research project described individual, marital, and family challenges from the perspective of 376 intermarried respondents associated with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Participants' observations generally suggested that their religious and cultural differences enriched their own and their family's well-being. However, some participants described pervasive and lingering unresolved couple disagreements linked to their religious and cultural differences. These differences seemed to have a decidedly negative impact on individual, couple, and family well-being. Clinical implications suggest that intermarried couples' different religious and cultural backgrounds may be interconnected to the presenting problem(s) of couples. | Joanides, Charles Mayhew, Mick Mamalakis, Philip M. | Investigating Inter-Christian and Intercultural Couples Associated with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America: A Qualitative Research Project. | 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
98 | yes | 97 | Emerald Insight | Purpose Recent global migration trends have led to an increased prevalence, and new patterning, of intercultural family configurations. This paper is about intercultural couples and how they manage tensions associated with change as they settle in their new cultural context. The focus is specifically on the role food plays in navigating these tensions and the effects on the couples’ relational cultures. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative relational–dialectic approach is taken for studying Polish–Irish intercultural couples. Engagement with relevant communities provided multiple points of access to informants. Findings Intercultural tensions arise as the couples jointly transition, and food consumption represents implicit tensions in the household’s relational culture. Such tensions are sometimes resolved, but sometimes not, leading to enduring tensions. Dialectical movement causes change, which has developmental consequences for the couples’ relational cultures. Research limitations/implications This study shows how the ways that tensions are addressed are fundamental to the formation of a relational family identity. Practical implications Recommendations emphasise the importance of understanding how the family relational culture develops in the creation of family food practices. Marketers can look at the ways of supporting the intercultural couple retain tradition, while smoothly navigating their new cultural context. Social policy analysts may reflect on the ways that the couples develop an intercultural identity rooted in each other’s culture, and the range of strategies to demonstrate they can synthesise and successfully negotiate the challenges they face. Originality/value Dealing simultaneously and separately with a variety of dialectical oppositions around food, intercultural couples weave together elements from each other’s cultures and simultaneously facilitate both relational and social change. Within the relationship, stability–change dialectic is experienced and negotiated, while at the relationship’s nexus with the couple’s social ecology, negotiating conventionality–uniqueness dialectic enables them reproduce or depart from societal conventions, and thus facilitate social change. | Donal Rogan Maria Piacentini Gill Hopkinson | Intercultural household food tensions: a relational dialectics analysis | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
99 | yes | 98 | Academic Search Index | The paper investigates the various factors from a socio-cultural perspective that have a bearing on the intercultural couple's marital satisfaction in Westerner and non-Westerner relationships, and how cultural differences may potentially amplify the difficulties, which non-intercultural couples themselves are already likely to face. These factors include acculturation, language and communication, attitudes toward marriage, individual traits and behaviours, support of the family, societal views, gender roles, managing of the household finances and child rearing. Certain theories are also highlighted in an attempt to explain why these cultural differences have such a profound effect on the marital satisfaction of intercultural couples. | Skowroński, Dariusz P. Othman, Atifa Bte Siang, Daniel Tan Wen Han, Gabriel Lum Wei Yang, Jeremy Wong Jia Waszyńska, Katarzyna | The Outline of Selected Marital Satisfaction Factors in the Intercultural Couples based on the Westerner and non-Westerner relationships. | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
100 | no | 99 | Gale Academic OneFile | ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN -- As the sun sets over the city's snowcapped mountains, Yerbolat and May Ospanov settle into the gray sofa. May slides her hands over Yerbolat's, which lie clasped [...] | A silk road marriage: are cross-cultural couples the key to integrating a region? | 2017 |