Humanitarian behavior across high-/low-context cultures: a comparative analysis between Switzerland and Colombia

Afrouzi, Omid Alizadeh

doi:10.1186/s41018-020-00088-y

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“…In these cultures, describing and expressing emotion in words becomes difficult or not seen as socially desirable. [54][55][56] Further to the two significant misfitting items in the Describe facet, Item 13 from Act with Awareness was also discarded in validating FFMQ-T. The item wording was ambiguous as it seemed to categorize distraction in levels, that is, it might be difficult for participants to express or mark the levels of distraction in scaling terms such as easily.…”

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Validation of a Tamil Version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Using Rasch Analysis

Raman,

Siegert,

Bharatharaj

et al. 2024

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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Background: Various assessment tools that explore and assess mindfulness are available. Keeping in view both the origin of and the literature surrounding mindfulness assessment tools, this study aimed to evaluate the workability of one widely researched tool, the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), for establishing cross-cultural generalizability and utility in the Indian context. Methods: We recruited 303 adults over 18 with proficiency in the Tamil language and no history of significant neurological trauma and/or psychiatric history. They completed a version of the 39-item FFMQ, which we had translated into Tamil (FFMQ-T). The psychometric properties of this scale were tested using the Partial-Credit model of Rasch analysis. Results: Iterative Rasch analysis could not resolve consistent misfit of the Observe facet items. Using a subtest approach, a higher-order fit of the FFMQ-T could be achieved after the deletion of additional items from each of the remaining four facets. The resulting final model for the FFMQ-T questionnaire was a four-factor solution with 22 items. Conclusions: This study concluded the usability of the new 22-item FFMQ-T. These results are not dissimilar to the other versions in similar populations, such as the Hindi version of the FFMQ. The ordinal-to-interval conversion tables provided here ensure that the FFMQ-T can be used with enhanced precision and parametric statistics.

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Validation of a Tamil Version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Using Rasch Analysis

Raman,

Siegert,

Bharatharaj

et al. 2024

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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“…The former is characterized by implicit and covert expression, while the latter features more often explicit or overt expression. The majority of the countries from the East, such as South Korea, China, and Japan, are often regarded as high-context cultures (Alizadeh Afrouzi, 2021; Kim et al, 1998), while the countries from the West, including the United States, Canada, and Australia, are categorized into low-context cultures. In the present study, the countries from the West tend to show their stances more explicitly, which is consistent with the findings of Hall and the subsequent studies under his framework.…”

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Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020)

Shen

2022

Cross-Cultural Research

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The explicitness of expression or persuasion has been a critical subject of study in cross-cultural studies. The majority of cross-cultural comparisons in this respect, however, have been based on questionnaires and surveys. This study seeks to diversify the methods and validate the results with a corpus-based register analytical approach. Based on the United Nations General Debate Corpus (UNGDC) that comprises comparable multi-cultural speeches, a diachronic comparison (1970-2020) is made between the 2518 speeches (altogether 7,090,221 tokens) of 55 cultures from the East (East, South, and Southeast Asia) and the West (European Union, North America, and Australia) on the dimension ‘explicitness of persuasion’, a synthesized variable operationalized with 6 linguistic features, with the register analytical framework of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA). The potential impacts of the political contexts on the cross-cultural gap in persuasion explicitness are tentatively discussed with the case studies on China and the United States. The results reveal significant difference between the exemplars from the East and the West on the overtness of persuasion, and the gap is generally narrowing down over the 51 years. The quantitative results provide political-setting linguistic evidence for the relevant findings of Hall, Hofstede, and Inglehart & Welzel, and the narrowing gap between cultures from the East and the West in the explicitness of expression points to an open and dynamic view of cultures. This study may offer implications for further research on the cultural styles of political persuasion.

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“…Another dimension, which more or less encapsulates those of Hofstede, is Hall's concept of a continuum from low-context to high-context cultures [57,58]. Although the notion of low-and high-context cultures has been criticized in principle as being too simplistic, static and outdated given our fluid global societies [59], it has nevertheless proved to be a useful and robust measure to describe and interpret patterns of communication in a number of contexts [59][60][61]. Communication in high-context cultures tends to be more indirect, reserved and understated, with an intention to maintain harmony and a preference for nonverbal cues, while communication in low-context cultures is more direct, precise and open, being based on feelings or intentions [59,62].…”

Section: Cultural Influencesmentioning

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Infotainment May Increase Engagement with Science but It Can Decrease Perceptions of Seriousness

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We presented 867 participants with one of two videos about climate change that differed only in terms of whether they had an infotainment or expository narration. They were available in either English or Spanish. The participants consisted of two distinct clusters: one in which all were over 30 with a university degree, and another dominated by younger participants without a university degree. The infotainment version produced a significantly reduced perception of the seriousness of climate change for the planet in the latter cluster. Furthermore, viewers of the English versions, who were predominantly residents in countries with low-context cultures, perceived the risk of climate change for the planet to be significantly higher after watching the video with the expository narration. Using infotainment for science communication is a two-edged sword: while it may help engagement, making light of a topic can reduce perceptions about its seriousness. We suggest that the use of infotainment should be determined by the aims of the communicators and the nature of the target audience. If the purpose is simply to convey information, then infotainment is likely to be the most effective and it has the additional benefit of engaging recipients that lack a university education. However, if the purpose is to affect attitudes and persuade an audience, then an expository narration is likely to be most effective.

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Humanitarian behavior across high-/low-context cultures: a comparative analysis between Switzerland and Colombia

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Validation of a Tamil Version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Using Rasch Analysis

Validation of a Tamil Version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Using Rasch Analysis

Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020)

Infotainment May Increase Engagement with Science but It Can Decrease Perceptions of Seriousness

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