Personal and situational predictors of proactive coping with difficult life situations: cross-cultural differences

Running head: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN REPRESSIVE COPING

Repressive coping or repression had been well studied for its relationship with autobiographical memory and attention. Repression is also related with positive psychological adjustment outcome, negative physical health outcome, and negative narrative identity growth outcome. However, previous studies in this field of repression only included individualistic individuals such as Western Europeans...

A Cross-Cultural Study of Predictors 1 Running head: CROSS-CULTURAL PREDICTORS OF SELF-HANDICAPPING A Cross-Cultural Study of Predictors of Self-handicapping in University Students

Coping with university-related problems: A cross- cultural comparison

Cross-Cultural Differences and Pragmatic Transfer in English and Persian Refusals

This study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between Persian native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency of the semantic formulas. Also examined in this study was whether Persian EFL learners would transfer their L1 refusal patterns into the L2, and if there would be a relation between their proficiency level an...

A cross-cultural investigation of situational information security awareness programs

Purpose – The aim of this research is to make users aware of the importance surrounding the issue of security and security awareness while at the same time making educators as well as other individuals aware of the differing effects of cultural dimensions into the learning process. Design/methodology/approach – An inter-cultural study was conducted to investigate if users from the USA and Taiwa...