Abstract Recently, a relationship between bilingualism and enhanced social flexibility has been suggested. However, research on the subject is scarce what little exists limited by several conceptual methodological concerns. In current study, we attempted to (a) replicate findings from study Ikizer Ramírez-Esparza (Bilingualism: Language Cognition 21:957–969, 2018) using scales that authors deve...

This chapter explores individual intercultural competence as an enacted capability developed through social interaction and experience with dominant local cultures and minority cultures. The authors employ a knowing-as-practice perspective, following Nicolini et al. (2003), and notions of tacit knowledge within particular domains (Sternberg et al., 1995), to suggest that the study of intercultu...

The relationship between acculturation and mammography screening practices among Hispanic women is unclear due to inconsistent study findings. The purpose of this research was to further investigate the effect of acculturation on mammography screening practices among Hispanic women and to explore the effect of biculturalism on mammography screening. Hispanic female farmworkers (N = 716) who wer...

The use of questionnaires for soundscape evaluation is a key aspect research. Since standards and protocols mainly exist in English, using an appropriate translation cross-cultural adaptation (CCA) methodology necessary to maintain content equivalence between source target language. However, many examples can be found the literature where no was applied. This study addresses neglected CCA proce...

INTRODUCTION: Cultural competence is one of the most widely used approaches to cross- cultural practice among health and social care professions, including work. Following professional code ethics, workers must be competent in working with people across cultures. As a result, work education has sought teach students prepare them become culturally competent. The popular model which includes thre...

The current research investigated how patterns of home and host cultural identification can explain which individuals who have lived abroad achieve the greatest creative and professional success. We hypothesized that individuals who identified with both their home and host cultures (i.e., biculturals) would show enhanced creativity and professional success compared with individuals who identifi...

BACKGROUND Korean Americans are known for a high smoking prevalence within the Asian American population. This study examined the effects of acculturation and depression on Korean Americans' smoking cessation and abstinence. METHODS This is a secondary data analysis of a smoking cessation study that implemented eight weekly individualized counseling sessions of a culturally adapted cessation ...

Biculturals are individuals who are acculturated in two cultures and have dual identities. Due to this, many early discussions on biculturalism argued that biculturals may have divided loyalties between their two cultural backgrounds and the identities derived from these backgrounds. This view is further highlighted given historical and contemporary debate regarding immigrants in the European a...