BACKGROUND Primary care doctors see patients from diverse cultural backgrounds and communication plays an important role in diagnosis and treatment. Communication problems can arise when patient and doctor do not share the same cultural background. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine how consultations with immigrant patients are understood by GPs and how GPs manage these consultati...

The current study examined the factor structure of the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI) to better understand the psychometric properties of this instrument. Subsequent to the current study, the CCAI, which was developed to provide a selfinventory of an individual’s cultural adaptability, had limited study of its measurement characteristics. Therefore, the structure was examined usin...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine whether physical and psychosocial work factors are related to the levels of job satisfaction and intentions to leave in the maritime industry, and to determine whether there exist cross-cultural differences in work factors, job satisfaction and intentions to leave between European and Filipino crew members. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using a cross-s...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of cross-cultural communication (ccc) on stakeholder management process (smp) in international construction projects from the turkish stakeholders’ perspective. the research is based on a survey of turkish stakeholders (contractors, consulting engineers, insurance brokers, and financial advisors) operating internationally. the useable su...

Findings from psychological research on human development carried out primarily in Western cultures may not be universally valid. Research in other cultures reveal hitherto unknown facts and processes. Thus, a cross-cultural approach provides an essential contribution to the understanding of developmental processes and the influence of genetic and environmental factors, for example universals a...

Recent IS research (Straub et al 2002) comments that cross-cultural research in IS 'remains in its infancy' because of the 'lack of unanimity about the underlying meaning and definition of the underlying construct 'culture''. This paper extends previous work by the authors on the significance of culture in the development of both informal and formal models of trust in IS security using an estab...

Findings from psychological research on human development carried out primarily in Western cultures may not be universally valid. Research in other cultures reveal hitherto unknown facts and processes. Thus, a cross-cultural approach provides an essential contribution to the understanding of developmental processes and the influence of genetic and environmental factors, for example universals a...