Birds of different feathers? The relationship between multicultural personality dimensions and foreign language mastery in business professionals working in a Dutch agricultural multinational     

Hubert Korzilius  Andreu van Hooft  Brigitte Planken  Christa Hendrix 《Int J Intercult Relat》2011,35(5):540-553

The relationship between personality dimensions, measured with the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), and foreign language mastery were studied in a Dutch-based multinational company in the agricultural sector. In a survey, differences were studied between internal and external stakeholders to determine whether MPQ dimensions and language mastery allow us to discriminate between them. The internal stakeholders were divided into international and non-international employees; external stakeholders were the business contacts of the international employees (clients and business partners based or working abroad). The international employees were found to be more open-minded and flexible than the non-international employees, and the former group was found to be more emotionally stable than the group of business contacts. On average, the international employees reported speaking one foreign language more than both other groups. Also, the number of foreign languages correlated with the multicultural personality dimensions open-mindedness and emotional stability. It is concluded that emotional stability, open-mindedness, and the number of spoken foreign languages are to some extent predictive of differences between the various stakeholders distinguished in this sample.  相似文献   

Ego Integrity of Older People with Physical Disability and Therapeutic Recreation     

Allan B. de Guzman  Hye-Eun Shim  Charmin Kathleen M. Sia  Wilbart Harvey S. Siazon  Mary Joyce Ann P. Sibal  Joanna Brigitte Lorraine C. Siglos 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(4):265-291

Ego integrity, the last developmental task in Erikson's psychological theory, develops naturally among older people. However, the presence of loss–like physical disability–can considerably affect the quality of life, interactions, and well being of older adults. Hence, older people with physical disabilities need more assistance in accomplishing tasks of ego integrity. This study aimed to utilize traditional Filipino art to capture the essence of the lived experiences of a select group of older people with physical disabilities in relation to their ego integrity. Four Filipino elderly with physical disabilities were purposely selected for this study. Picture prompting and doodling sessions were held as pretest and posttest to ascertain the effectiveness of puni-making in facilitating ego integrity of participants. A series of interviews were pursued to elicit experiences and feelings of participants regarding their disability and old age. From the analysis of the triangulated set of data, two findings emerged. First, four activators of ego integrity, namely: work, family, belief in self and belief in God, were identified as essentials in the formation of the participants' ego-integrity. Second, shifts related to the activators were identified indicating ego integrity's source, meaning and connection elements have become more grounded, certain and integrated. The influence of puni-making in understanding the ego integrity of older people with disabilities was found to be a sound and novel recreational therapy. It can stimulate a select group of Filipino elderly for openness to share their subjective and yet illuminating life experiences.  相似文献   

Cable Communications     

Brigitte L. Kenney  Richard C. Kletter  Stephen H. Unger  Philip J. Brendel  Richard Calhoun  Ted Werntz 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(11):4-5

Brigitte L. Kenney (ed.) Cable Television for Librarians which is issued as Vol. 9, No. 1 and 2 of Drexel Library Quarter (Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 — $6.00, paper)

Richard C. Kletter Cable Television: Making Public Access Effective (R-1142-NSF, May 1973, 74 pp., $3.00)

Stephen H. Unger, Technology to Facilitate Citizen Participation in Government (18 pp., $1,25)

Philip J. Brendel, Incasting and the Telephone Network (36 pp., $1.25)

Richard Calhoun, Public Television Channels in New York City: The First Six Months (55 pp., $1.25)

Ted Werntz, A Preliminary Review of CATV as a Two-Way System (18 pp., $1.25)

Noam Lemelshtrich, Design Analysis of a Home Terminal for Two-Way Communications (50 pp., $1.25)

Leonard M. Ross, Economic and Legal Aspects of CATV Systems (150 pp., $4.00)  相似文献   

New Technologies     

Robert Johansen  Brigitte L. Kenney  Martin Clifford  Peg Kay  Patricia Powell 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(5)

TELECONFERENCING AND BEYOND: COMMUNICATIONS IN THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE, by Robert Johansen (New York: McGraw Hill - Data Communications. 1984—price not given

CABLE FOR INFORMATION DELIVERY: A GUIDE FOR LIBRARIANS, EDUCATORS AND CABLE PROFESSIONALS, edited by Brigitte L. Kenney (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 19847mdash;$34.50/ $27.50)

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SATELLITE TV, by Martin Clifford (Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Tab Books, 1984—$11.50 pape

FUTURE INFORMATION PROCESSING TECHNOLOG1 1983, edited by Peg Kay and Patricia Powell (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, August 1983- $6.50, paper),  相似文献   

Questionable Research Practices in Experimental Communication Research: A Systematic Analysis From 1980 to 2013     

Jörg Matthes  Franziska Marquart  Brigitte Naderer  Florian Arendt  Desirée Schmuck  Karoline Adam 《Communication methods and measures》2015,9(4):193-207

Questionable research practices (QRPs) pose a major threat to any scientific discipline. This article analyzes QRPs with a content analysis of more than three decades of published experimental research in four flagship communication journals: Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and Media Psychology. Findings reveal indications of small and insufficiently justified sample sizes, a lack of reported effect sizes, an indiscriminate removal of cases and items, an increasing inflation of p-values directly below p < .05, and a rising share of verified (as opposed to falsified) hypotheses. Implications for authors, reviewers, and editors are discussed.  相似文献   

Editorial     

Pierre Luisoni  Brigitte Dluermoz 《Prospects》2006,36(3):245-246

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Innovation and network structural dynamics: Study of the alliance network of a major sector of the biotechnology industry   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Brigitte Gay  Bernard Dousset 《Research Policy》2005,34(10):1457-1475

We study the large-scale topology and dynamics of maps of alliances in a major segment of the biotechnology industry. The results point to the joint dynamics of network and innovation. The study demonstrates that the network is scale-free. Competition for links translates into a dynamic exponent that seems to follow the fitter-get-richer model of network growth, with preferential attachment to firms holding key technologies. This network also shows a small-world effect. This work highlights the strategic importance of understanding the growth dynamics and structure of collaboration networks for the building of leading positions in industries led by sustained radical change.  相似文献   

Flaunting one's academic pedigree? Self‐presentation of students from elite French schools     

Hugues Draelants  Brigitte Darchy‐Koechlin 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2011,32(1):17-34

This article starts from the puzzle that although French elite institutions enjoy extremely positive and attractive images, students from these schools generally choose to conceal their academic pedigree in their daily interactions. We show that, in a context of growing inequalities of access to grandes écoles, the strategy of hiding one's student identity may be understood as the desire to avoid six core threats associated with declaring one's association with an elite school: not conforming to group norms, confirming a negative reputation, not living up to a positive reputation, reducing one's identity, losing control of one's identity, and threatening the identity of the other. The conclusions highlight the implications of this microsociological study on a host of much wider questions useful in better understanding the ambivalent relations that exist between French society and its elites issued from the grandes écoles.  相似文献   

A conversation of teachers: In search of professional identity   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Brigitte Smit  Elzette Fritz  Valencia Mabalane 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2010,37(2):93-106

The authors describe teacher professional identity as lived experience in the context of educational change. Adopting activity theory and its genesis in cultural historical theory (Stetsenko &; Arievitch, 2004) as a framework, the article discusses the way teachers see themselves as professionals and how they compose their identities in schools, the educational space, which is their workplace. Activity theory is utilised as the broad theoretical lens and the design type and methodology are discussed accordingly. The school and the classroom are activity systems (Engeström, 1991), and social and semiotic ecosystems (Lemke, 1995). It is therefore in the tensions within the activity system that we capture and represent a constructed teacher conversation, composed of the voices of three social actors on an imaginary social stage, which is the empirical text of the article. Main findings speak to multiple roles, struggling voice and forging professional identity in the changing educational landscape.  相似文献   

On the Nature of the Semiotic Structure of the Didactic Action: The Joint Action Theory in Didactics Within a Comparative Approach     

Gérard Sensevy  Brigitte Gruson  Dominique Forest 《Interchange》2015,46(4):387-412

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