A measure of cross-cultural adaptability, the Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), was administered along with measures of personality and psychopathology, ego strength, emotional intelligence and interpersonal relating styles to 205 applicants to a reality T.V. show that required cross-cultural resilience. The results of the study show convergent validity between the CCAI and measures...

In this position paper we describe an on-going effort to provide an in-depth and cross-cultural evaluation of how elderly users perceive robotic systems for domestic cognitive support. Our work is grounded on two implemented smarthome prototypes, namely the RoboCare Smart Home developed in Italy, and the PEIS Home developed in Sweden. The former project has provided a testbed for an aposteriori...

Aspects of ethical behavior have attracted attention following a spate of corporate collapses. Ethical behavior is based on moral standards and not simply adherence to legal requirements. This study examined the relationships between gender, age, home/work influences, cultural background, and ethical behavior in a sample of Australian and Singaporean MBA students. After controlling for cultural...

Children life will be very dependent on the intensive care provided by mother. During child-rearing process, an emotional bond established in interaction between mother and child. The purpose of this study was to explore parenting styles mothers for toddlers Bali. subjects were 66 with children under five Bali who came from working mothers, at home, housewives, sample determined using a purposi...

Practitioners supporting children in out-of-home care are often faced with making difficult decisions about children’s needs. These decisions include where the child will live and how often a child has contact with their family of origin. Children’s attachment needs are one of the factors that are considered when making these decisions (Barth, Crea, John, Thoburn, & Quinton, 2005; Dozier & Rutt...

The World Bank, in its operational Policy 4.10, uses the term “indigenous peoples” to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (a) Self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (b) collective attachment to geographically distinct habitats or ancestr...

Meta-analysis aggregated results of 40 investigations involving 2,867 children who averaged 29.6 (SD = 8.6) months of age when their attachments to care providers were assessed using either the Strange Situation (SS) or the Attachment Q-Set (AQS). As opposed to parents, secure attachments to nonparental care providers were less likely (using SS) or equally likely (using AQS), respectively. Secu...