Cross‐Cultural Construing

Scheer, J

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“…These findings are in accordance with the commonality corollary of Kelly's theory of personal construct, suggesting that members of a given cultural or subcultural group tend to share similar constructs (Bannister, 2003;Davidson & Reser, 1996;Kelly, 1963Kelly, , 1970Kelly, /2003Scheer, 2003). They also parallel the work of other scholars in the health conception field who hold the view that culture gives meaning to personal experiences of health and illness (Angel & Thoits, 1987;Hufford, 1992;Kleinman, 1978;Jobanputra & Furnham, 2005;Jovchelovitch & Gervais, 1999;O'Connor, 1998;Torsch & Ma, 2000).…”

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“…Contemporary personal construct psychologists also believe that the theory of personal construct lends itself to the study of cultural and cross-cultural construction of knowledge (Davidson & Reser, 1996;Scheer, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Because they have similar experiences and life circumstances, they come to represent their surrounding world in a comparable way (Bannister, 2003;Kelly, 1963Kelly, , 1970Kelly, /2003Scheer, 2003). In fact, Kelly (1963) defined culture in terms of a set of shared constructs.…”

Section: Health Conception Determinantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Personal construct psychologists have suggested that language represents a powerful force that shapes the way people perceive and conceptualize their internal and external realities (Rowe, 1996;Scheer, 2003). Personal construct psychologist Dorothy Rowe (1996) suggested that "the language we speak created the reality in which we live" (p. 11).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, within any given culture, idiosyncrasies will always be found amidst shared cultural constructs (Scheer, 2003). Although Kelly recognized the existence of shared social and cultural constructs, as a psychologist, he developed a theory that is first and foremost a theory of individuals in the sense that the construction of knowledge, including cultural knowledge, is done by individuals (Davidson & Reser, 1996).…”

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Assessment of Caregiving Constructs: Toward a Personal, Familial, Group, and Cultural Construction of Dementia Care through the Eyes of Personal Construct Psychology

Hamad

AlHadi

Lee

et al. 2017

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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Conditions that cause cognitive impairment and behavioural and personality changes, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia, have global impact across cultures. However, the experience of dementia care can vary between individuals, families, formal caregivers, and social groups from various cultures. Self-reported measures, caregiving stress models, and conceptual theories have been developed to address the physical, financial, psychological, and social factors associated with the experience of dementia care. Given the cross-cultural variability in the experience of dementia care, it is important for such methodologies to take individual and cultural construct systems into account. We contend that personal and group constructs associated with dementia care should be explored in both the formal and informal caregiving contexts. Therefore, in this paper we introduce the theory of Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) with its explicit philosophy, well-elaborated theory, and derived assessment methods as a potential constructivist research approach to examine the personal, familial, group, and cultural construct systems that determine the experience of dementia caregiving. These concepts and assessment procedures are illustrated in this paper through case study examples and scenarios from the context of dementia care with a focus on family home caregivers. This paper elaborates the assessment and therapeutic approaches of personal construct theory (PCT) to further expand alternatives for support services and program interventions and to amplify policies for dementia care within and across cultures.

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Construing the cultural other and the self: A Personal Construct analysis of English and Italian perceptions of national character

Burr

Giliberto²,

Butt

2014

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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How we perceive other cultures is arguably of increasing importance in contemporary society, impacting on realms such as international relations, business and tourism. The qualitative research reported in this paper was carried out in the UK and in Italy and adopted a Personal Construct Psychology approach. It aimed to explore intercultural perceptions in a sample of people who had some degree of experience with the 'other' culture, and a unique feature of the research is that it asked how those perceptions might be affected if people from both cultures are given access to each other's perceptions. There was considerable commonality in the perceptions of the English and Italian participants, and each culture envied some of the qualities of the other. However, they initially struggled to accommodate how they were seen by the other and endeavoured to resolve difference by construing at a more superordinate level. The findings also suggest that national identity is rooted in the construing of others' constructions, achieved through relationship and comparison. How we perceive other cultures is arguably of increasing importance in contemporary society, impacting on realms such as international relations, business and tourism. The qualitative research reported in this paper was carried out in the UK and in Italy, and aimed to explore intercultural perceptions in a sample of people who had some degree of experience with the 'other' culture. A unique feature of the research is that it asked how those perceptions might be affected if people from both cultures are given access to each other's perceptions.Perceptions and stereotypes of people from different nations around the world have previously received a good deal of attention from researchers. For example, Linssen and Hagendoorn (1994) asked teenage students from seven western European countries to rate those nationalities on several trait dimensions. The results suggested that the more northern peoples, for example Germans and English, were perceived as more likely to have qualities such as 'efficient' and 'scientific' than southern European countries like Italy and France. The southern nationalities were rated as more emotional, enjoying life and more religious than northern nationalities. Italians were also seen as more empathic, helpful and friendly than the English.According to Lönnqvist, Yijälä, Jasinskaja-Lahti and Markku Verkasalo (2012), there has been very little research on the accuracy of national stereotypes and they call for more research in this area. What research there is seems to suggest that, in the absence of significant personal experience with the other culture, perceptions of national stereotypes tend to be inaccurate. Germany and the Netherlands to rate their liking for the other nations and to rate similarity to their own nation on traits such as 'friendly', 'tolerant', 'practical' and 'domineering', as well as measuring the degree of participants' contact with those nations. The aim of this research was to assess the usefulness of So...

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Cross‐Cultural Construing

Cited by 6 publications

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Conceptions of health: A cross-cultural comparison.

Conceptions of health: A cross-cultural comparison.

Assessment of Caregiving Constructs: Toward a Personal, Familial, Group, and Cultural Construction of Dementia Care through the Eyes of Personal Construct Psychology

Construing the cultural other and the self: A Personal Construct analysis of English and Italian perceptions of national character

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