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The process of inoculation and its potential in promoting resistance to the effectiveness of multiple competitive attacks on the country of origin concept.
(2006)
This investigation tested the ability of different resistance strategies to protect the positive COO image attributed to products in the face of singe and multiple competitor attacks. The results illustrate the superiority ...
Looking beyond the hijab: An analysis of Muslim adaptation to French culture.
(2006)
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation).
REACTANCE THEORY AND SELF-CONSTRUAL IN THE EAST AND WEST
(2017-05-12)
Using psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) as an explanatory framework, this dissertation experimentally tests the effects of appeal type, restoration type, and self-construal on freedom threat perceptions, reactance ...
Italian American identity: A hermeneutic examination of Tampa's Italian community.
(2007)
This study focuses on how diverse interpretations of ethnicity within the United States produce meaning for Italian Americans. Research regarding Italian Americans and the effects of negative stereotypes, cultural products, ...
Predicting communication satisfaction and relationship satisfaction in online romantic relationships.
(2000)
Grounded in the literature on computer mediated communication and in traditional theories of interpersonal relationships and communication (e.g., Uncertainty Reduction Theory) this study examined the predictors of communication ...
Host environment, communication, and psychological health: A study of cross-cultural adaptation comparing Korean expatriates in the United States with American expatriates in South Korea.
(2003)
Future studies in this field could prove yet more fruitful by expanding the range of nationalities of the expatriate groups living and working in a variety of cultural regions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
An examination of the relationship between personality dimensions and preference for a delivered or interactive test feedback style.
(2003)
This study examined client perceptions of a personality test feedback session. Participants (n = 82) took a well-known normal personality test and had their results interpreted for them in either a delivered or interactive ...
The impact of culturally acquired behavioral norms on workplace communication.
(2004)
This study explored cultural diversity influences on the concepts of time and punctuality; allowable limits of expressiveness; kinesics and oculesic cues; request/response time; and ethnic and gender preferences for ...
Two directors performing the work of directing: An ethnographic and conversation analytic inquiry in the direction of pedagogical influence.
(2004)
The data for this study are ethnographic participant/observation and conversation analytic collections from two theatre production processes in an educational theatre program. The intent of the study is to investigate how ...
FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS A STORY: NARRATIVES OF OKLAHOMA TEACHERS ABOUT THE 2018 WALKOUT AND TEACHING IN OKLAHOMA
(2018-05-10)
Members of social movements create and maintain the meanings of that movement (Snow & Benford, 1992). Interviews with 49 teachers between September and November 2018 provide the data for this qualitative study. This ...