On the concept, taxonomy, and transculturality of disordered grief by Afonso Gouveia, Afonso Gouveia

“…In light of these considerations, this study proposes that prolonged grief disorder should be approached as a diagnostic category with potential Western cultural bias until comprehensive cross-cultural studies, conducted in diverse settings, can either substantiate or refute its broader applicability. …”
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To complain or not to complain: Management responses as a moderator in the relationship between workplace incivility and workplace outcomes among Australia and singaporean targets by Jennifer (M.I) Loh, Md Irfanuzzaman Khan, Md Jakir Hasan Talukder

“…While existing studies have uncovered cultural and gendered differences in how targets and organizations respond to workplace incivility, few cross-cultural studies have empirically examined how targets and organizations react to formal complaints. …”
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Effective communication for implementing strategy in projects by Poon, Hwa Onn

“…Comparative studies across different project types and contexts, as well as cross-cultural studies, can provide a more comprehensive understanding of effective communication strategies.…”
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The structure of the symptoms of major depression: exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis in depressed Han Chinese women. by Li, Y, Aggen, S, Shi, S, Gao, J, Li, Y, Tao, M, Zhang, K, Wang, X, Gao, C, Yang, L, Liu, Y, Li, K, Shi, J, Wang, G, Liu, L, Zhang, J, Du, B, Jiang, G, Shen, J, Zhang, Z, Liang, W, Sun, J, Hu, J, Liu, T, Wang, X

“…In addition to a general depressive symptom factor, a complete picture must include factors reflecting typical/atypical vegetative symptoms, cognitive symptoms (hopelessness/suicidal ideation), and an agitated symptom factor characterized by anxiety, guilt, helplessness and irritability. Prior cross-cultural studies, factor analyses of MD in Western populations and empirical findings in this sample showing risk factor profiles similar to those seen in Western populations suggest that our results are likely to be broadly representative of the human depressive syndrome.…”

Assertiveness and the use of language of assertiveness among undergraduates in a Malaysian public university by Nur'Ain Balqis Haladin

“…More recent research on assertiveness has pointed to the importance of assertiveness in English language teaching and learning as well as in developing students’ communicative competence. Previous cross-cultural studies have shown that Asians are less assertive than Westerners. …”
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Development of the Interpersonal Processes of Care Survey–Japanese version by Takuma Shiozawa, Sosei Yamaguchi, Asami Matsunaga, Utako Sawada, Chiyo Fujii

“…While the analysis suggested utilizing an IPC‐J with 22 items, the full IPC‐J can be used in cross‐cultural studies.…”
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Deep learning reveals what facial expressions mean to people in different cultures by Jeffrey A. Brooks, Lauren Kim, Michael Opara, Dacher Keltner, Xia Fang, Maria Monroy, Rebecca Corona, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Alice Baird, Jacob Metrick, Nolawi Taddesse, Kiflom Zegeye, Alan S. Cowen

“…Summary: Cross-cultural studies of the meaning of facial expressions have largely focused on judgments of small sets of stereotypical images by small numbers of people. …”
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Representing the Silk Road: Literature and Images between China and Japan during the Cold War by Zhixi Yin

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A PREFERRED LEADERSHIP PORTRAIT OF SUCCESSFUL CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIP by Tong Wooi CHOW, Lailawati MOHD SALLEH, Ismi Arif ISMAIL

“…Findings: Cross-cultural competence has become a considerable important research in the last two decades. Cross-cultural studies on cross-cultural differences in leadership interaction of the home and host cultures of leaders are needed. …”
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Development and Adaptation of a Patient-Centered Communication Survey for Parents of Children With Cancer in Guatemala by Dylan E. Graetz, Silvia Elena Rivas, Ana Lucia Fuentes, Annie Caceres-Serrano, Federico Antillon-Klussmann, Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, Jennifer W. Mack

“…Eventual validation of such tools will enable cross-cultural studies and comparative analysis of results.…”
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The role of social robots in fostering human empathy : a cross-cultural exploration by Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro

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An investigation of bilingual competence: translation of requests between Chinese and English by Lee, Kai Wai

“…The face-threatening nature of request has attracted attention from cross-cultural studies to identify the appropriate request realisation patterns of monolingual natives across languages, as well as from second language (L2) acquisition studies to measure the resemblance between L2 patterns and those of the native speakers (NS). …”
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Who Decides: Me or We? Family Involvement in Medical Decision Making in Eastern and Western Countries by Alden, Dana L., Friend, John, Lee, Ping Yein, Lee, Yew Kong, Trevena, Lyndal, Ng, Chirk Jenn, Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, Abdullah, Khatijah Lim, Tanaka, Miho, Limpongsanurak, Supanida

“…Unfortunately, the field lacks cross-cultural studies that test this assumption. As a result, providers may be guided by incomplete information or cultural biases rather than patient preferences. …”

Who decides: me or we? family involvement in medical decision making in eastern and western countries by Alden, Dana L., Friend, John, Ping, Yein Lee, Yew, Kong Lee, Trevena, Lyndal, Chirk, Jenn Ng, Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, Abdullah, Khatijah Lim, Tanaka, Miho, Limpongsanurak, Supanida

“…Unfortunately, the field lacks cross-cultural studies that test this assumption. As a result, providers may be guided by incomplete information or cultural biases rather than patient preferences. …”
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Improvement of psychometric properties of a scale measuring inpatient satisfaction with care: a better response rate and a reduction of the ceiling effect by Lombrail Pierre, Falissard Bruno, Pillet Nathalie, Nguyen Jean-Michel, Moret Leïla, Gasquet Isabelle

“…An English version of this scale focused on quality of medical information delivered and on relationship with staff already exists, and this could be useful to conduct cross-cultural studies of health care service quality.</p>…”
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The effect of mobile phone addiction on perceived stress and mediating role of ruminations: Evidence from Chinese and Czech university students by Hongyang Liu, Jan Sebastian Novotný, Jan Sebastian Novotný, Lucie Váchová

“…Finally, a moderated-mediation analysis confirmed that country of origin significantly moderated only the direct relationship between mobile phone dependence and perceived stress (p = 0.002).DiscussionThese results suggest that the mechanism of interaction between excessive mobile phone use and perceived stress is culturally conditioned, which may limit the transferability of research findings in a global context and requires further cross-cultural studies.…”
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Cultural Differences in How People Deal with Ridicule and Laughter: Differential Item Functioning between the Taiwanese Chinese and Canadian English Versions of the PhoPhiKat-45 by Chloe Lau, Taylor Swindall, Francesca Chiesi, Lena C. Quilty, Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch, René Proyer, Francesco Bruno, Donald H. Saklofske, Jorge Torres-Marín

“…Despite numerous cultural adaptations, there is a paucity of cross-cultural studies investigating measurement invariance of this measure. …”
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Not so different after all? An event-related potential study on item and source memory for object-scene pairs in German and Chinese young adults by Michael Weigl, Qi Shao, Qi Shao, Enno Wang, Zhiwei Zheng, Zhiwei Zheng, Juan Li, Juan Li, Jutta Kray, Axel Mecklinger

“…In recent years, several cross-cultural studies reported that Westerners focus more on central aspects of a scene (e.g., an object) relative to peripheral aspects (e.g., the background), whereas Easterners more evenly allocate attention to central and peripheral aspects. …”
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Moral hypocrisy in economic games — How prosocial behavior is shaped by social expectations by Caviola, L, Faulmüller, N

“…Henrich et al. (2004) confirmed these findings in cross-cultural studies. Similar cooperative tendencies are found in other economic games like the Ultimatum Game,the Third Party Punishment Game and the Public Good Game(Camerer, 2003). …”

A sequential mediation model of perceived social support, mindfulness, perceived hope, and mental health literacy: An empirical study on Taiwanese university students by Chih-Cheng Lo, I-Chen Chen, Wei-Sho Ho, Yao-Chung Cheng

“…Future research should expand to cross-cultural studies, further examine the evolving dynamics of social support, and incorporate both qualitative and experimental methodologies. …”
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