Cultural adaptation in measuring common client characteristics with an urban Mainland Chinese sample

Song, Xun; Anderson, Timothy; Beutler, Larry E.; Sun, Shijin; Wu, Guohong; Kimpara, Satoko

doi:10.1080/10503307.2014.913322

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“…Bijwaard and Wang (2016) reported that work stress has a bad physiological and psychological influence on a worker in an organization (or an institution) when individual capability cannot live up to the corresponding expectation. Milbourne and Wilkinson (2015) defined work stress as the spiritual fatigue caused by being slowly exposed to heavy work stress; when the person felt exhausted and emptied, such physical and mental exhaustion at work would result in the lack of work enthusiasm, high frustration, nervousness, and even insomnia, headache, anxiety, and depression (Song et al, 2015). Gullo et al (2015) divided stressors into interpersonal relationship stressors, task relationship stressors, organizational relationship stressors, and physical and mental relationship stressors.…”

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The Impact of Expatriates’ Cross-Cultural Adjustment on Work Stress and Job Involvement in the High-Tech Industry

2019

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The personal traits of expatriates influence their work performance in a subsidiary. Nevertheless, organizations tend to hire candidates who are suitable from the technological dimension but ignore personal and family factors. Expatriates might not be familiar with a foreign place, and most organizations do not provide the so-called cultural adjustment training. The selected expatriates often accept the job without knowing the future prospects of their career, which can result in individual and family turmoil initially. Moreover, the unknown future career prospects and concern over when they will return to the parent company can affect expatriates’ work. Cross-cultural competence refers to the ability of individuals to work effectively and live normally in different cultural contexts, and this ability requires expatriate employees to adopt adaptive thinking patterns and behaviors in the host country. To explore the effect of expatriates’ cross-culture adjustment on their work stress and job involvement, this study therefore uses an empirical approach in which data are collected with a questionnaire survey and proposes specific suggestions, according to the results, to aid expatriates in their personal psychological adjustment. The results show that the challenges faced by expatriate employees are derived from assigned tasks, unknown environments, language barriers, and cultural differences. Excessive pressure will impose ideological and psychological burdens upon the expatriates and even lead to physical symptoms, however, the appropriate amount of pressure can play a driving role and promote the smooth progress of the work. High-tech industry employees who can adapt to the customs and cultures of foreign countries have higher work participation and are more likely to find ways to alleviate work stress. It has also been found that the stronger the cross-cultural competence of employees, the better their adjustment to the host country and the higher their corresponding job performance.

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“…At the beginning of expatriation, an individual may be anxious about the strange environment. Proper local guidance and necessary directions for work offered before the expatriation can be of great help for an expatriate (Song et al, 2015).…”

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The Impact of Expatriates’ Cross-Cultural Adjustment on Work Stress and Job Involvement in the High-Tech Industry

2019

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“…Some cross‐cultural comparisons of patient reactance × therapist directiveness have been explored by research. While similarity to North American samples is the norm among South American and European studies (e.g., Beutler et al, ; Corbella et al, ), there are some indications of differences among Asian and non‐Asian populations (e.g., Beutler, ; Song et al, ). To date, the patterns related to reactance seem to transcend geographic and ethnic boundaries, but some distinctiveness appears also to be present among Asian groups.…”

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Adapting psychotherapy to patient reactance level: A meta‐analytic review

2018

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Resistance and its extreme variation, reactance, are uniformly observed across varieties of psychotherapy.Social psychologists note that reactant individuals prove to be less so when offered a receptive and nondirective environment. We provide definitions of reactance, review its frequent measures, and offer a clinical example. A meta-analysis of 13 controlled studies (1,208 patients) examined the degree to which treatment outcomes are enhanced when therapists offer less directive treatments to high-reactance patients. The results revealed a large effect size (d = .79), confirming that highly reactant individuals did better in psychotherapy when the therapist assumed a reflective and nondirective stance than a directive and authoritative one. To a lesser degree, the opposite was also true. Limitations of the research and diversity considerations are noted. Practice recommendations are provided to minimize a patient's reactant behavior. K E Y W O R D S meta-analysis, psychotherapy outcome, reactance, resistance, systematic treatment selection, treatment adaptations 1 | INTRODUCTION Patients who willingly enter psychotherapy typically do so because of a desire to change. At the same time, that desired change can prove a difficult and frightening process and is often met with what clinicians refer to asresistance. The clinician is then confronted with the thorny question, "Why is it that one who wants to change then resists doing so when offered the opportunity?" The role of the clinician is to serve as a facilitator for reconciling these contradictory inclinations of the patient and to produce change and growth in the process. Psychological

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“…In the beginning of expatriation, an individual would be anxious about the strange environment. When proper local guidance and necessary directions for work were off ered before the expatriation, it would be a great help for an expatriate (Song et al, 2015). Accordingly, the following hypothesis is proposed in this study.…”

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“…Bijwaard & Wang (2016) explained work stress as bad physiological and psychological infl uence on a worker in an organization (or an institution) when individual capability could not bear the correspondent expectation. Milbourne & Wilkinson (2015) defi ned work stress as the spiritual fatigue caused by being slowly exposed in heavy work stress; when the person felt exhausted and emptied, such physical and mental exhaustion at work would result in the lack of work enthusiasm, strong frustration, nervousness, and even insomnia, headache, anxiety, and depression (Song et al, 2015). Gullo et al (2015) divided stressors into interpersonal relationship stressor, task relationship stressor, organizational relationship stressor, and physical & mental relationship stressor.…”

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Research of Media industry's Expatriates’ Cross-Culture Adjustment on the Job Involvement and Work Stress: The Impact of Relatedness

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2019

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Along with the country largely attracting foreign businesses for the investment, foreign-owned enterprises have gradually stationed in. In consideration of the Media transfer, the establishment of business management systems, and the needs for market expansion for off shore sourcing, numerous expatriates are required for executing company tasks in subsidiary companies from the initial establishment & planning, factory construction, marketing, Media, and general aff airs. Various diff erences in life and social culture would appear cross-culture adjustment problems for expatriates, and lots of factors would aff ect the work pressure. When expatriates gradually increase, the expense for expatriation is high for enterprises and individuals that the success in expatriation focuses on support for expatriates' career. In addition to subsidies, there should be the reference principles for selection, training, oversea life, oversea work, and repatriation. Besides, assistance in emergency could release expatriates' anxiety to enhance the work effi ciency. This study therefore intends to discuss the eff ect of expatriates' cross-culture adjustment on working pressure and job involvement. The questionnaire survey is used for collecting data, and conclusions and specifi c suggestions are proposed for the reference of corporate expatriation as well as individual psychological adjustment of expatriates.

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Cultural adaptation in measuring common client characteristics with an urban Mainland Chinese sample

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

The Impact of Expatriates’ Cross-Cultural Adjustment on Work Stress and Job Involvement in the High-Tech Industry

The Impact of Expatriates’ Cross-Cultural Adjustment on Work Stress and Job Involvement in the High-Tech Industry

Adapting psychotherapy to patient reactance level: A meta‐analytic review

Research of Media industry's Expatriates’ Cross-Culture Adjustment on the Job Involvement and Work Stress: The Impact of Relatedness

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