Social support across cultures

Glazer, Sharon

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2005.01.013

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“…These cultural characteristics lead to a situation that when working in teams, Western learners endorse independent thought, encourage creativity and distribute equal opportunity to achieve power and influence over others. For them, good group members should be the ones who can enable each other to achieve the highest academic standards (Glazer, 2006). As a result, when choosing group members, they tend to put cognitive ability as the first priority.…”

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“…In fact, Glazer (2006) claims that in teamwork, collectivistic people accept that each individual contributes what he or she can do to ensure that the quality of work is acceptable and they are willing to sacrifice their own voice for the sake of group harmony. As a result, Asian students might overweight affective factors more than cognitive factors when choosing their learning partners.…”

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Group Composition of Cooperative Learning: Does Heterogeneous Grouping Work in Asian Classrooms?

Thanh¹,

Gillies²

2010

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Constructing an appropriate group is important to teamwork success. Although, heterogeneous grouping is widely recommended in Western countries, this method of grouping is questioned in Asian classrooms because Asian and Western students have different cultures of learning. Unfortunately, this issue has not been addressed in any research to date. This study aims to investigate how Vietnamese students should be grouped so that they can maximize their opportunities to learn. The study is in two parts: a pilot study and an intervention. The pilot study included twenty students and was conducted for four weeks. The intervention consisted of one hundred and forty five students and lasted for eight weeks. In both studies, students answered a questionnaire survey and ten students were interviewed. The results of both studies showed that friendship grouping was more preferred. Future researchers should take these findings into consideration so that cooperative learning activities can be designed adaptively in Asian classrooms.

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Group Composition of Cooperative Learning: Does Heterogeneous Grouping Work in Asian Classrooms?

Thanh¹,

Gillies²

2010

IES

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“…The variables chosen partially explained the outcome, which calls for the development of a broader theoretical model including other variables such as, for instance, access to care, the characteristics of health services and user satisfaction. Another important issue to be considered is investigating the social support network, which has different meanings for different cultures 45 and therefore demands the development of instruments and indicators that take into account the particularities of the Brazilian context. …”

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Social support network, mental health and quality of life: a cross-sectional study in primary care

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The objective of this study was to identify the association between emotional distress and social support networks with quality of life in primary care patients. This was a cross-sectional study involving 1,466 patients in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2009/2010. The General Health Questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the brief version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument were used. The Social Support Network Index classified patients with the highest and lowest index as socially integrated or isolated. A bivariate analysis and four multiple linear regressions were conducted for each quality of life outcome. The means scores for the physical, psychological, social relations, and environment domains were, respectively, 64.7; 64.2; 68.5 and 49.1. In the multivariate analysis, the psychological domain was negatively associated with isolation, whereas the social relations and environment domains were positively associated with integration. Integration and isolation proved to be important factors for those in emotional distress as they minimize or maximize negative effects on quality of life.

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“…Third, to fully understand the effect of job stress on individual attitudes and behaviors via its impact upon supervisor's social support, more organizations need to be used in future study. Fourth, other specific theoretical constructs of social support, such as coworker's social support, and manager's social support need to be considered because they have widely been recognized as an important link between supervisor's role and many aspects of individual attitudes and behavior (Mohra & Wolfram,2010;Glazer, 2006). Fifth, response bias and common-method variance is a common issue in all questionnaire-based research.…”

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Job Stress with Supervisor’s Social Support as a Determinant of Work Intrusion on Family Conflict

Ismail

Suhaimi

Bakar

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Abstract:Purpose: The primary objective of this study is to examine the influence of supervisor's social support in the correlation between job stress and work intrusion on family conflict.Design/methodology/approach: A survey method was employed to gather survey questionnaires from academic staff in a Malaysian government university in Borneo. Findings: The outcomes of SmartPLS path model showed three major findings: first, supervisor's social support does act as an important moderating variable in the relationship between role ambiguity and work intrusion on family conflict. Second, supervisor's social support does not act as an important moderating variable in the relationship between role conflict and work intrusion on family conflict. Third, supervisor's social support does not act as an important moderating variable in the relationship between role overload and work intrusion on family conflict. In sum, supervisor's social support does act as a partial moderating variable in the hypothesized model. on family conflict. In sum, supervisor's social support does act as a partial moderating variable in the hypothesized model. Practical implications:The findings of this study can be used as guidelines by management to overcome job stress problems through updating the content and methods of stress management training program, strengthening work groups and group cohesiveness in executing job, improving work-life balance programs to reduce the employee physiological and psychological stresses, revisiting the existing job designs based on the qualifications and expectations of individual employees, and revising compensation and benefits policies and procedures to cover stress-related disorder diseases, and activating internal employee assistance programme in order to help employees and their families with problems arising from both work-related and external resources. If these suggestions are given highly attention this may increase the capability of employees to enhance the performance of institutions of higher learning. Originality/value:The role of supervisor's social support in influencing the effect of job stress on family conflict is commonly investigated in Western countries, but it has not been thoroughly studied in the context of this study.

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Social support across cultures

Cited by 81 publications

References 37 publications

Group Composition of Cooperative Learning: Does Heterogeneous Grouping Work in Asian Classrooms?

Group Composition of Cooperative Learning: Does Heterogeneous Grouping Work in Asian Classrooms?

Social support network, mental health and quality of life: a cross-sectional study in primary care

Job Stress with Supervisor’s Social Support as a Determinant of Work Intrusion on Family Conflict

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