Decision Making by Chinese and U.S. Students

Harris, Karen L.; Nibler, Roger

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“…The decision-making process of the subject when referring to the opinions of Beach and Conolly (2005) through three stages namely diagnosis, selection of actions, and implementation. These three processes occur repeatedly in each problem (Arroba, 1998). The problems that arise in their marriage then make a diagnosis that the marriage is problematic and does not run like a marriage in general.…”

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Process of Decision-Making Divorces on Women Who Are Undergoing Pregnancy in The First Year of Marriage

Solichah,

Istiqomah

2018

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This study aims to find out how the process of decision-making divorced in women who are undergoing pregnancy in their first year of marriage? Are the factors that influence the subject taking a divorce decision? This study uses qualitative research methods with a phenomenological approach. Subjects in the study were women aged 20-30 years, were pregnant, and filed for divorce with their husbands. Data collection is done by open and in-depth interviews. Data analysis uses data-driven and credible consolidation techniques over research using member checking. The results showed that the factors that caused him to decide to divorce were influenced by twelve factors, namely financial problems, work, family influences, habits, changes in attitudes and behavior, perception of marriage, commitment before marriage, place of residence, husband's role, knowledge of the risk of divorce, trust, and health problems. These twelve factors are then categorized into internal and external factors. The dominant internal factors that influence the subject in taking divorce decisions are the subject's perception of marriage, while the most dominant external factors are family environmental factors. The subject decision-making process consists of three stages, namely diagnosis, selection of actions, and implementation. These three processes repeatedly occur in each problem. Some problems arise in marriage, then determine that the marriage is problematic and does not run like a marriage in general.

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Process of Decision-Making Divorces on Women Who Are Undergoing Pregnancy in The First Year of Marriage

Solichah,

Istiqomah

2018

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“…There have been some valuable, highly relevant studies of international students studying in diverse countries, hence this review has not been limited only to research on Chinese international students in Australia. For example, some literature (Duan, 1997;Harris & Nibbler, 1998;Stewart, 2017) identified cross-cultural differences between the adolescent Chinese student population and their Anglo counterparts in their decision making about overseas education. These studies recognised the influence of culture and traditions, such as the mindsets of eastern collectivism and Western individualism.…”

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How Do Students Make Decisions About Overseas Higher Education? A Case Study of Chinese International Students at a Regional Australian University

Kember

2018

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The following publications are associated with this Ph.D. research project based on data collected from the study or literature reviewed relating to the research topic. I am the principal author of all these publications. Wu, Q., & Kember, D. (2018). How do students make decisions about overseas higher education? A case study of Chinese international students at a regional Australian university. In D. Kember & M. Corbett (Eds.), Structuring the thesis: Matching method, paradigm, theories and findings (pp. 65-76). Singapore: Springer.

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“…In a study of organizational communication, East Asians favor indirect conflict strategies only when dealing with organizational superiors; otherwise, they were no more indirect than Australians (Brew & Cairns, 2004), suggesting that equal levels of conversational directness might be expected where power between participants is equal. Finally, in a study of decision-making discussions, Chinese participants self-report being more dominating and less respectful than do U.S. participants (Harris & Nibler, 1998).…”

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Conversational Argumentation in Decision Making: Chinese and U.S. Participants in Face-to-Face and Instant-Messaging Interactions

Stewart

Setlock

Fussell

2007

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This study investigates cultural and communication medium effects on conversational argumentation in a decision-making context. Chinese and U.S. participants worked in pairs on two decision-making tasks via face-to-face (FtF) and instant messaging (IM). The analyses showed that Chinese participants tended to engage in potentially more complex argumentation, whereas U.S. participants tended to utilize proportionally more statements of claims and statements of convergence (agreements, acknowledgments, and concessions). Argumentation in IM tended to be more direct than in FtF interactions. There were no interaction effects between culture and communication medium on argumentation behavior. In addition, statements of convergence were found to be negatively related to measures of persuasion, indicating that such statements do not necessarily indicate true agreements or shifts in opinion. The results are discussed in terms of structuration theory and the socioegocentric model of communication.Argumentation is a pervasive mode of discourse, occurring in face-to-face (FtF), mass-mediated and computer-mediated contexts, and in oral and written discourse. Various definitions of argumentation exist, depending on disciplinary and functional orientations to the study of argument (Voss & Van Dyke, 2001). Decision-making dyads and groups engage in argumentation by exchanging claims and Correspondence should be addressed to Craig O. Stewart, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. E-mail: cstewart@odu.edu reasons, and expressing agreement and disagreement, in the process of arriving at decisions that are, at least ideally, mutually acceptable to the group's members. Increasingly, as organizations internationalize, collaborative decision making takes place over computer-mediated channels and across diverse cultures. However, there is little research on argumentation in decision-making directly comparing the argumentation behaviors found in computer-mediated interactions with those in FtF interactions or argumentation behaviors in collectivistic cultures with those in individualistic cultures. In this article, we analyze the argumentative discourse moves of dyads consisting either of U.S. or Chinese college students collaborating on decision-making tasks in FtF and instant-messaging (IM) interactions. In addition to investigating how culture and communication technology affect argumentation, we investigate relations between argumentation behaviors and postdiscussion agreement between partners and subjective ratings of the tasks. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKStructuration theory has been an influential framework for studying the role of interaction and communicative processes in group decision making. As Poole, Seibold, and McPhee (1985) stated, "Structuration refers to the process of production and reproduction of social systems via the application of generative rules and resources [i.e., structures]" (p. 76). The underlying structures that support social systems emerge through processes of interaction. Argumen...

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Decision Making by Chinese and U.S. Students

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Process of Decision-Making Divorces on Women Who Are Undergoing Pregnancy in The First Year of Marriage

Process of Decision-Making Divorces on Women Who Are Undergoing Pregnancy in The First Year of Marriage

How Do Students Make Decisions About Overseas Higher Education? A Case Study of Chinese International Students at a Regional Australian University

Conversational Argumentation in Decision Making: Chinese and U.S. Participants in Face-to-Face and Instant-Messaging Interactions

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