The authors examined the effects that differently framed and targeted health messages have on persuading low-income women to obtain screening mammograms. The authors recruited 752 women over 40 years of age from community health clinics and public housing developments and assigned the women randomly to view videos that were either gain or loss framed and either targeted specifically to their et...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to assess predictor variables of husbands in multicultural families and examine the relationship among variables after setting up a hypothetical model including influencing factors, so as to provide a framework necessary for developing nursing interventions of domestic violence. METHODS The participants were 260 husbands in multicultural families in four citie...

The purpose of this paper is to review ethnic diversity, national unity and multicultural education in China with graduate students in a multicultural education course and pose some questions for discussion. China is a rapidly developing multiethnic country facing several challenges, including pollution, growing income inequality and low political participation of ordinary citizens. These can t...

Many studies have explored the social consequences of ethnic essentialism in recent decades. In addition, a few studies have focused on the impact of perceived cultural context on ethnic essentialism. However, it is not clear why perceived cultural context can lead to changes in ethnic essentialism. In the present study, we hypothesized that the cultural anxiety of ethnic minorities may trigger...

This paper explains how mobile learning assures sustainable e-education for multicultural group of students. This paper reports the impact of mobile learning on distance education in multicultural environment. The emergence of learning technologies through CD, internet, and mobile is increasingly adopted by distance institutes for quick delivery and cost-effective purposes. Their sustainability...

Most universities in developing countries are using a teaching and learning approach known as blended e-learning, however, there was no multicultural-based blended elearning framework. Furthermore, there is no research to show the impact of multicultural blended e-learning on satisfaction of learners. This research employed two categories of students, the Iranian students and the Iraqi students...

• United Europe vs. fragmented Bosnia and Herzegovina; • Free travel, mobility of people, goods, money vs. ghetto, siege and divided cities; • Human rights, especially minority rights issues vs. genocide and ethnical cleansing; • Information highways vs. total collapse of basic telecommunications infrastructure; • Revival of multicultural vs. the killing of traditionally the only multicultural ...

Each of these terms, ‘secularisation’, ‘religion’ and ‘multicultural citizenship’, would require a separate and more systematic elaboration than the one I can offer in a single lecture. My aim in this chapter is simply to explore some interrelations between contemporary debates about secularisation, religion, and multicultural citizenship by adopting a global comparative perspective which may h...

It has been argued that Latino children may be at a disadvantage in their early school adjustment due to disparities between the cultural values and goals of Latino families and those emphasized in U.S. schools (e.g., Delgado-Gaitan, 1994; Goldenberg & Gallimore, 1995). The purpose of the present study was to compare the cultural values and goals of Mexican-origin parents and their children’s H...

This study developed a depression prediction model for female students from multicultural families by using a decision tree model based on Chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) algorithm. Subjects of the study were 9,024 female students between 12 and 15 years old among the children of surveyed marriage immigrants. Outcome variables were classified as presence of depression. Expla...