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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-04-2017
Publisher: CO-PUBLISHED WITH SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Date: 04-2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-07-2015
DOI: 10.1017/JGC.2015.13
Abstract: Increasing ethnic and cultural ersity worldwide and especially in Australia requires that psychologists and counsellors cultivate the knowhow to interact and work effectively with clients and stakeholders in cross-cultural contexts. This study aimed to identify and compare themes regarding challenging intercultural social scenarios experienced by supervising, practising and intern psychologists. Transcripts from five focus groups were open-coded on four occasions and the final themes compared with the EXCELL ( Ex cellence in C ultural E xperiential L earning and L eadership) program's six key sociocultural competencies (Mak, Westwood, Barker, & Ishiyama, 1998). We found that many challenges reported by psychologists (regardless of their qualifications) were related to difficulties — for psychologists and clients — in executing one or more of key sociocultural competencies: seeking help or information, participating in a group, making social contact, giving feedback, refusing a request, and expressing disagreement. We also identified barriers to cultural competence in therapeutic relationships, including cultural identity issues, needing to address difficulties in intimate relationships, cultural variation in values/beliefs/social norms, mismatched expectations, psychologists’ perceived deficit in intercultural training, and challenges in self-reflection. Based on our findings, we propose a model of culturally competent counselling practice and discuss implications for counsellor and psychologist training, and for future research.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEPR.2015.08.010
Abstract: Nurse clinicians and academics need to understand intercultural communication challenges to improve their communication skills and better support students' learning. Gaps exist in the literature regarding intercultural communication resources for students, academics and clinicians. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of clinical nurses, nurse academics, and student nurses regarding intercultural communication challenges. Data were collected using focus group interviews with nineteen clinical facilitators (nurses who supervise nursing students in clinical practice), five clinical nurses, and ten nursing students. Seven nurse academics were interviewed via telephone. The purposive s le was drawn from a tertiary hospital and a university in Australia. Participants were invited to discuss challenging intercultural scenarios they had experienced including strategies they used to overcome such challenges. Using qualitative content analysis data were analysed resulting in four categories which were: 1) prejudice based on cultural ersity 2) unfamiliarity with cultural boundaries 3) stereotyping cultural behaviours and 4) difficulty understanding English. Strategies participants used to mitigate challenges included resorting to cultural validation through alliance building, proactively seeking clarification, and acquiring cultural awareness knowledge. This study highlights intercultural challenges students, clinicians and academics face and signpost the way forward with useful strategies to better inform nurse education.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-10-2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1017/ORP.2014.5
Abstract: In this study, we investigated the prevalence, severity, and organisational factors of risk for psychological injury in a national s le of Australian school teachers, using the Psychological Injury Risk Indicator. We predicted that teachers would report higher levels of risk for psychological injury if working in schools located in rural areas, with a low socioeconomic index, and low psychosocial safety climate. Teachers from across Australia ( N = 960) completed an online survey that measured risk for psychological injury and relevant organisational factors. We found a high number of teachers (26%) whose responses showed high risk, indicating the need for professional intervention in order to avoid potentially debilitating psychological injury. Analyses also showed main effects for two organisational factors, indicating that teachers most at risk for psychological injury tended to be employed by schools with low psychosocial safety climate and in areas with a low socioeconomic index. These results highlight the severe levels of work-related psychological injury risk in the Australian teacher population, and the important role for school administration and education departments in maintaining a working environment that supports staff psychologically.
Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2304/PLAT.2012.11.3.365
Abstract: Psychology educators recognize the importance of preparing graduates who are interculturally competent. This article outlines and reflects on teaching practices intended to embed intercultural awareness and skills in a health psychology curriculum. It includes descriptions of activities consisting of tutorials involving a schematic approach to mapping intercultural interactions for stress reduction and health communication and a reflective learning journal on culture and health.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-01-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2000
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-03-2020
Publisher: Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd
Date: 1998
DOI: 10.2224/SBP.1998.26.2.131
Abstract: This paper reports the construction and validation of a measure of social self-efficacy in a range of social interaction situations commonly experienced by tertiary students, including situations posing special concern to recent arrivals to the Australian educational setting. Participants in the first study were 228 undergraduate students. Among these, 91 were Australia-born with English-speaking-background parents (Anglo-Australians), 90 were also Australia-born but had parents from a non-English-speaking-background (NESB Australia-born), and 47 were overseas-born with NESB parents (NESB immigrants). Item and factor analyses yielded a 20-item, 4-factors Social Self-Efficacy Scale for Students (SSESS). The four factors were Absence of Social Difficulties, Social Confidence, Sharing Interests, and Friendship Initiatives. Evidence of the scale's satisfactory internal consistency reliability, and its concurrent and construct validity is presented. Indication of satisfactory test-retest reliability was obtained from a second s le of 16 university students. Applications and directions for further research are discussed.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1996
DOI: 10.5172/JFS.2.1.29
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-07-2013
Abstract: A strategic approach to internationalize learning in higher education institutions is to use the curriculum and classroom cultural ersity to create opportunities to broaden students’ intercultural perspectives, appreciate sociocultural variability in professional practice, and improve their intercultural interaction skills. There is no clear consensus, however, on how to “link the global classroom to the global workplace.” The article examines an evidence-based approach to embed intercultural competency development in classroom teaching using an established intercultural resource (EXCELL) in an international human resource management course a general communication course a pharmacy course comprising only Saudi Arabian students and a generic first year pharmacy course. Subsequently, stakeholder analyses with Business, Nursing, and Pharmacy academics and professionals led to the development of intercultural critical incidents for the curriculum. Strengths and limitations of the intercultural resource and recommendations for incorporating intercultural competency development in curriculum design in Business and Health disciplines are discussed.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-05-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-12-2015
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.2218
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-05-2015
Abstract: As international students navigate in a foreign educational environment, having higher levels of coping or stress-resistance resources—both internal and external—could be related to increased satisfaction with personal and university life. The internal coping resources examined in this study were host language proficiency, self-esteem, intercultural social self-efficacy, and academic self-efficacy. The external resources studied were perceived social support from (a) hosts and (b) non-hosts. Survey participants were 385 Asian-born international students in Australian universities. Regression analyses revealed that academic self-efficacy and social support from hosts were significant predictors of both personal and university life satisfaction, but the effects of English language proficiency and social support from non-hosts disappeared when other resources were considered. Additional predictors of personal satisfaction were intercultural social self-efficacy and self-esteem. We discuss the implications for future research on the international student experience and for learning support provision for international university students.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-05-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JOOP.12069
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2001
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing, LLC
Date: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-09-2019
DOI: 10.1017/JGC.2018.14
Abstract: While poor parental bonding has been linked with psychological distress, few studies have assessed bonding with mothers and fathers separately among adolescents and whether there are gender differences in the relationships between bonding and psychological distress. Additionally, low self-esteem has been shown to predict psychological distress, but low self-esteem may develop as a result of poor bonding with parental figures. We explored the relationships between (a) perceived maternal and paternal bonding factors and (b) psychological distress, and examined whether self-esteem mediated these relationships in a non-clinical s le of 337 adolescents (aged 13–17 years, M = 14.17, 50.6% female) in Canberra, Australia. Relative to males, females reported lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of psychological distress. For females, low self-esteem and perceived maternal or paternal rejection predicted higher levels of psychological distress, whereas low self-esteem predicted psychological distress for males. Implications for future research and further considerations are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AP.12290
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2007
Publisher: SensePublishers
Date: 2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-1995
DOI: 10.1177/103841629500400209
Abstract: Hong Kong is currently Australia's largest source of non-English-speaking background immigrants with professional and managerial skills. Many highly trained recent Hong Kong immigrants may be fluent in English and hold recognised qualifications, but would experience initial problems in a culturally different workplace, especially when their customary interpersonal style, which has previously brought them successes, seems no longer valued in their new work settings. This paper provides a context for these intercultural communication concerns by drawing on relevant research findings and case vignettes. The well-being of highly trained immigrant workers would be enhanced through intercultural training that aims at augmenting their repertoire of social competencies. The human resources issues involved in utilising immigrants' bicultural skills to improve the nation's productivity will be discussed using the case of Hong Kong immigrants.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1993
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1989
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1996
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-1994
DOI: 10.1007/BF02105648
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-06-2021
DOI: 10.1002/JCLP.23172
Abstract: There is emerging evidence that early maladaptive schemas (EMS) may be a cognitive vulnerability factor in nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI). The current study sought to examine the relationship between EMS and NSSI history, and whether this is moderated by gender, in a community youth s le. Participants were 403 Australian secondary and university students aged between 16 and 25 years, who completed a survey of NSSI history, EMS, and general emotional distress. Logistic regression analysis indicated that being female, depression, and EMS scores were useful for differentiating between youth reporting NSSI history and those who did not. High levels of Defectiveness / Shame and Abandonment / Instability schema scores, and low levels of Emotional Inhibition schema scores , were associated with NSSI history. Gender did not moderate the relationships between these EMS scores and NSSI history. Present results suggest that aspects of the schema domain of Disconnection and Rejection are important for identifying NSSI history beyond young people's emotional distress. This provides researchers and clinicians with an opportunity to better target key EMS, especially beliefs about self‐defectiveness and feelings of shame, that may be driving the regulatory function of self‐injury among youth.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-1997
DOI: 10.1177/011719689700600202
Abstract: An emphasis on skills in Australian immigration policy in the past decade has led to the increase of highly skilled Hong Kong immigrants. However, Australia has not been able to retain all of them. An estimated 30 percent attrition rate among recently arrived Hong Kong-born settlers in Australia is noted by Kee and Skeldon (1994). This paper reports the results of an in-depth study on intention to repatriate and work in Hong Kong, conducted in Australia with 111 professional and managerial Hong Kong immigrants. Correlational and loglinear analyses on prediction of such an intention are presented. Research findings on the career-family dilemma experienced by a number of immigrants are likewise discussed.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1991
DOI: 10.1177/0093854891018003003
Abstract: Previous research into control theory has primarily employed self-reported delinquency data and recruited students rather than young offenders as subjects. It has been uncertain if the control approach is useful in understanding the behavior of truly delinquent young offenders. The present study examined the psychosocial control characteristics of 103 pairs of official delinquents and nondelinquents matched on social background. Delinquents were found to have lower levels of personal and social control than nondelinquents. Delinquents were more impulsive, were less attached to their parents, liked school less, and had lower educational and occupational expectations and weaker beliefs in the moral validity of the law. These findings provide further evidence of the utility of extending Hirschi's (1969) social control theory to include personal control characteristics, particularly impulse control.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-08-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-022-17710-1
Abstract: Parasite bio ersity in cetaceans represents a neglected component of the marine ecosystem. This study aimed to investigate the distribution and genetic ersity of anisakid nematodes of the genus Anisakis s led in cetaceans from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. A total of 478 adults and pre-adults of Anisakis spp. was identified by a multilocus genetic approach (mtDNA cox 2 , EF1 α − 1 nDNA and nas 10 nDNA gene loci) from 11 cetacean species. A clear pattern of host preference was observed for Anisakis spp. at cetacean family level: A. simplex (s.s.) and A. pegreffii infected mainly delphinids A. physeteris and A. brevispiculata were present only in physeterids, and A. ziphidarum occurred in ziphiids. The role of cetacean host populations from different waters in shaping the population genetic structure of A. simplex (s.s.), A. pegreffii and A. physeteris was investigated for the first time. Significant genetic sub-structuring was found in A. simplex (s.s.) populations of the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea compared to those of the Iberian Atlantic, as well as in A. pegreffii populations of the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian Seas compared to those of the Iberian Atlantic waters. Substantial genetic homogeneity was detected in the Mediterranean Sea population of A. physeteris. This study highlights a strong preference by some Anisakis spp. for certain cetacean species or families. Information about anisakid bio ersity in their cetacean definitive hosts, which are apex predators of marine ecosystems, acquires particular importance for conservation measures in the context of global climate change phenomena.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-11-2014
Abstract: The current study investigated the impact of intercultural contact between domestic and international students on attitudes toward international students, and potential mediators of this relationship. A total of 247 Australian-born domestic undergraduates completed a survey of the quantity and quality of their contact with international students, levels of intergroup anxiety (IA) and intercultural communication emotions (ICE), and their attitudes toward international students. Positive quality of intercultural contact, less IA, and more positive ICE were all related to more positive attitudes toward international students. In addition, ICE mediated the relationship between positive quality of contact and attitudes, and between IA and attitudes. Quality of contact exerted both direct and indirect effects (via IA and intercultural communications emotions) on intergroup attitudes. Results highlight the importance of addressing communication barriers and the emotions associated with these when promoting positive interactions between domestic and international students. Suggestions are made for a theoretical integration of intergroup and communication-based perspectives when considering attitudes toward linguistically erse outgroups like international students.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.1111/AJPY.12008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 31-03-2016
Publisher: University of Victoria Libraries
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1999
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-01-2019
Abstract: Hong Kong, along with other Asian societies with universities with top world rankings, has in recent years attracted an increasing number of international students, mainly from Asia. Previous research in English-speaking Western countries has indicated the importance of resources, including language proficiency, positive intergroup relations, and social support, in understanding international students’ stress and coping in cross-cultural adaptation. Guided by a similar acculturative stress and coping framework, we investigated predictors of psychological and sociocultural adaptation in a survey s le of 726 international students (62% female and 73% Asian-born) from Hong Kong public universities. We found that English language proficiency, social support, and a low level of perceived discrimination fostered both types of cross-cultural adaptation, while contact with local students and proficiency in the local dialect further enhanced sociocultural adaptation. Implications for future acculturation research and higher education internationalization policies and practices are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-1990
DOI: 10.1177/0093854890017002005
Abstract: This article reviews the theoretical and empirical grounds for incorporating aspects of personal control in Hirschi's (1969) social control theory of delinquency. A subsequent test of the resultant psychosocial control perspective, conducted with 793 Australian secondary-school students, indicates that it has greater explanatory power than Hirschi's model. Fifty-two percent of the variance in self-reported delinquency was accounted for by a combination of the social control variables of belief in the moral validity of the law, liking for school, and parental bonding the personal control variables of impulse control and emotional empathy and the background variables of sex, age, and broken home status.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2003
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1298(200011/12)10:6<483::AID-CASP580>3.0.CO;2-0
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.AUCC.2014.12.003
Abstract: Australia's immigration policy has generated a rich erse cultural community of staff and patients in critical care environments. Many different cultural perspectives inform in idual actions in the context of critical care, including the highly sensitive area of end of life care, with nurses feeling poorly prepared to provide culturally sensitive end of life care. This article describes and evaluates the effectiveness of an educational innovation designed to develop graduate-level critical care nurses' capacity for effective interpersonal communication, as members of a multi-disciplinary team in providing culturally sensitive end-of-life care. A mixed method pilot study was conducted using a curriculum innovation intervention informed by The Excellence in Cultural Experiential Learning and Leadership Program (EXCELL),(1) which is a higher education intervention which was applied to develop the nurses' intercultural communication skills. 12 graduate nursing students studying critical care nursing participated in the study. 42% (n=5) of the participants were from an international background. Information about students' cultural learning was recorded before and after the intervention, using a cultural learning development scale. Student discussions of end of life care were recorded at Week 2 and 14 of the curriculum. The quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative data was thematically analysed. Students demonstrated an increase in cultural learning in a range of areas in the pre-post surveys including understandings of cultural ersity, interpersonal skills, cross cultural interactions and participating in multicultural groups. Thematic analysis of the end of life discussions revealed an increase in the levels of nurse confidence in approaching end of life care in critical care environments. The EXCELL program provides an effective and supportive educational framework to increase graduate nurses' cultural learning development and competence to manage culturally complex clinical issues such as end of life care, and is recommended as a framework for health care students to learn the skills required to provide culturally competent care in a range of culturally complex health care settings.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-1998
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-02-2017
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2016.1144711
Abstract: This paper examined the psychological factors that influence the well-being of health professionals who work with people with dementia and the types of care (person-centred or task-oriented) provided to these patients. The literature was reviewed to identify the factors influencing the well-being of, and types of care provided by, health professionals working with people experiencing dementia. Based on our review of the literature, we propose that approaches to care and the well-being of health professionals working with dementia patients are influenced by the characterisation of dementia as a terminal illness that typically occurs in older people. Drawing upon terror management theory, we argue that exposure to dementia patients is likely to promote awareness of one's own mortality and death-related anxiety. A theoretical model is presented which posits that health professionals working in dementia care draw on experiential avoidance to manage this anxiety. Both death anxiety, and coping strategies, such as experiential avoidance, used to manage this anxiety may influence health professionals' approaches to care of, and attitudes towards, dementia patients. We also suggest a bi-directional relationship between health professionals' approaches to care and well-being. Recommendations are made regarding future directions for research and implications for training of health professionals providing direct service or consultation in dementia care.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-10-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-06-2010
Publisher: Research Institute of Asian Women
Date: 30-06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1994
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-06-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1992
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.1992.71.1.121
Abstract: This article examined the relationship between impulsiveness and attitudes toward institutional authority among Australian secondary school students. Reliable questionnaire measures of these constructs were completed by 48 boys and 57 girls, about 14 years of age. Correlations between impulsiveness and attitude to authority differed between the sexes, with a significant negative correlation of −.43 being obtained for boys only.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2000
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