Employing a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach, this study investigated the role of emotion regulation and psychological well-being (PWB) as predictors of work engagement through using 108 ...British and 255 Iranian English language teachers as a sample. A multi-group structural equation modelling was performed to identify differences and similarities in the way emotion regulation and PWB could predict work engagement among British and Iranian English teachers. The valid measuring instruments of the three constructs were administered to collect the data in the two contexts. The results demonstrated measurement invariance, including both metric and scalar invariance, revealing that the constructs underlying the three scales possessed the same theoretical structure across two groups (i.e., British vs. Iranian). It was also revealed that both emotion regulation and PWB significantly predicted work engagement for the whole sample of British and Iranian teachers. However, PWB appeared to be a stronger predictor of work engagement. Moreover, some cross-cultural differences were identified in the regression coefficients. On the whole, the association of the PWB and work engagement was stronger for British teachers. The qualitative data analysis uncovered a number of categories and themes contributing to explaining differences between British and Iranian teachers. The results and implications are further discussed.
This research examines how an oppressed group, the Klamath Tribes of Oregon, used an information communication technology (ICT) for the human development objective of cultural identity restoration, ...one component of emancipation. Within this manuscript is depicted a process model of how ICT tools can be used for human development through emancipatory pedagogy, ie, the communication of knowledge in a way that promotes critical reflection and collective action. Combining interpretive and critical methods, I describe how the Klamath's ICT reflected the emancipatory journey of those creating it and empowered the Klamath to lead ICT users toward emancipation. An interpretive approach revealed that ICT framing tools promoted awareness of the Klamath, awareness of the problem the Klamath sought to address, and awareness of societal systems of power that enforced the Klamath's problem, while ICT tactic tools enabled “the aware” to engage in solutions. Notably, the Klamath shirked prevailing practices in ICT for development. Consistent with my critical approach, I use the Klamath case to suggest normative recommendations for the use of ICT for social good.
This article begins with the following question: Why, even with the proliferation of poststructuralist theoretical understandings of identity, do people routinely talk in terms of "real" and "fake" ...selves? Through an analysis of critical empirical studies of identity-construction processes at work, this article makes the case that the real-self{leftrightarrow}fake-self dichotomy is created and maintained through organizational talk and practices and, in turn, serves as a constitutive discourse that produces four subject positions with both symbolic and material consequences: strategized self-subordination, perpetually deferred identities, "auto-dressage," and the production of "good little copers." The article challenges scholars to reflexively consider the ways they may perpetuate the dichotomy in their own academic practices. Furthermore, the authors present the metaphor of the "crystallized self" as an alternative to the real-self{leftrightarrow}fake-self dichotomy and suggest that communication scholars are well-poised to develop alternative vocabularies, theories, and understandings of identity within the popular imagination. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
The re-analysis of Nguyen and Benet-Martínez’s (2013) meta-analytic data and a new meta-analysis of longitudinal studies by Bierwiaczonek and Kunst (2021) showed that the relationship between ...acculturation and adaptation is weak and that the effect size for unbiased results for integration may not differ from zero. These findings pose a major challenge to acculturation theory and research where the premises that acculturation is reliably related to adaptation and that integration is the most adaptive strategy are widely accepted. In this paper I consider how we as acculturation scholars could respond to this challenge. First, I summarize the results of Bierwiaczonek and Kunst’s (2021) meta-analytic studies and the response by Grigoryev et al. (2023), noting that the findings reported in both papers are characterized by small effect sizes and large amounts of heterogeneity. I then consider what single studies can tell us about acculturation and adaptation, highlighting the influence of methodological and contextual factors on this relationship. Finally, I synthesize research on cultural identity configurations, bicultural identity integration and cultural identity styles to show how each program of research on cultural identity integration leads to different, but more nuanced, conclusions about the relationship between acculturation and adaptation. To advance acculturation theory and research I argue that we should reframe our questions from “to what extent are acculturation and integration related to adaptation?” to “how and when are acculturation and integration related to adaptation?” I also advocate putting more emphasis on acculturation processes and contexts in future research.
The translator as a negotiator must ensure that all information contained in the source language text is conveyed to the target language reader. Because translation can be a way to overcome ...intercultural gaps. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method to find the formulation of the translation of Japanese cultural terms that have been negotiated in Indonesian translation. The material objects of this research were the Japanese novel 'Tenki No Ko' and its Indonesian translation 'Weathering With You’. The frameworks for this study were Newmark's cultural terms categorizations, Eco's idea of negotiation, and Baker's strategies for culture-specific items. This study revealed that the negotiation of Japanese cultural identity can be identified and formulated through the translation strategy used by the translator. The strategies were using general words, omissions, paraphrasing with related words, using neutral words, and using unrelated words.
According to Blejwas, it's possible that pioneers taming the Tennessee Valley region of the state stirred up the first kettles of chicken stew. ...while the dish might mystify anyone living beyond ...the counties that hug the Alabama-Tennessee border, it is "deeply sown into the local culture and a major element of the region's social life and identity" (57). Later in the same chapter Blejwas notes, "No dish better showcases the African backbone and cultural blend of southern cooking than gumbo, a seafood stew that unites ingredients across continents" (33). Chapters on boiled peanuts and sweet potato pie allow Blejwas to dig deep into the complex racial history of the state-from enslavement to emancipation to the Civil Rights Era.
Transsexuality is a complex situation that different disciplines such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, and law are interested in. The gender reassignment procedures developed within the ...framework of contemporary medicine cause this situation to take place more and more on the agenda of medicine and therefore medical ethics. In this short essay, transsexuality is discussed through its connections with the concepts of life, body, culture, personhood, and identity.
