The current dissertation contains three series of studies that revealed laypeople's nuanced, meticulous, and early-emerging attentiveness to gender membership, gender self-identification, and gender roles and norms in their personal and social life. Specifically, the studies tog…
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The number of American families choosing to adopt a child from Ethiopia has increased exponentially since 2004. Over the past five years alone, between 2006 and 2011, 13.5% of internationally adopted children in the U.S. came from Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to exami…
This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of immigrant Nigerians in North Carolina and their adjustment and coping mechanisms. The study involved 10 immigrant Nigerians telling their personal stories regarding their struggle to adjust to life in North Carolina. …
This study focused on leadership involvement and cross-cultural adjustment experiences of two undergraduate international students in order to better understand how international students become involved at the leadership level, become adjusted to living in the U.S., and to dete…
This thesis consists of three essays that analyze issues of external shock, adjustment, finance and real exchange rates in a group of developing countries—Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan and the Philippines. The first essay, “External Shock, Non-Adjustment and Finance: The Experience of …
The purposes of the current study were to test the replicability of the factor structure of the Attitudes Toward Women's Roles (ATWR), Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale (SRES), Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Self-Esteem Inventory, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale,…
The problems under investigation were (1) How does sense of coherence (SOC) affect adjustment (adjustment measured by depression and life satisfaction) for African immigrants? (2) In what manner does SOC moderate the relationship between migration stress and adjustment? Ethiopia…
Scope and method of study. This cross-cultural study investigates the importance of privacy regulation on college adjustment of American and Turkish freshmen living in residence halls. The research was carried out by means of a survey at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, …
This study is designed to examine the impact of riverine hazards and displacement upon displacees, both males and females, in Bangladesh. The specific objectives of the study are to: (a) determine the magnitude of psychological distress associated with riverine hazards and displ…
This thesis focuses on associations between child, parent and family emotional and behavioural adjustment and a variety of challenging experiences. The parenting role has a critical influence on child development and parenting outcomes and its importance is reflected in the cont…
The United States has experienced unrivaled success in attracting international students for higher education studies. Saudi Arabia has sponsored students for study in the United States since 1950, with the number of students on scholarship varying according to the fluctuation i…
Inadequate government assistance to refugees, negative attitudes of host communities, lack of participation by refugees in community affairs, lack of access to better-paying jobs, and lack of English skills exacerbate dependence on public assistance by refugees. The purpose of t…
This research is a qualitative ethnographic case study of Kuwaiti students attending the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The purpose of this research was two-fold: to understand the academic and cultural factors that affected the adjustment of Kuwaiti students sponsored by t…
Though the number of Nigerian immigrants in the United States has increased since 1965, the literature on transnational communities has been selective in its examination of this population. The present study examines the adjustment and settlement issues of Nigerian immigrants in…
The study sought to determine the relationship between both positive and negative religious beliefs and adjustment to chronic pain, as measured by pain severity, disability, depression, anger, and positive and negative affect. This study also sought to identify specific secular …
Economic crises place great pressures on authoritarian regimes. Why do some authoritarian regimes survive economic crises by adopting adjustment policies that their supporters demand, while other authoritarian regimes offer inconsistent adjustment policies and subsequently colla…
Molecular family stability can be defined as the predictability and consistency of the daily activities and routines of the family, including activities in the home as well as activities occurring outside the home that are arranged and supported by the family. Previous research …
This study examines foreign workers who have been ignored in the Organizational Behavior domain. The study fills a gap in the literature that developed due to an increase in the number of workers who cross national boundaries seeking employment and the lack of a body of literatu…
This qualitative, phenomenological study explored the experience of cross-cultural adjustment among intermarried Iranian-American women and their European-American husbands. A review of the literature revealed that information on Iranian-Americans, intermarriage, and cross-cultu…