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Intercultural communication of identity: A study of Japanese international students in the United States.
(2010)
This study aims to explore and understand how Japanese international students in the United States experience intercultural communication of identity. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted. The Japanese ...
Strength of weak ties and the modern job search
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation examines the social networks of job seekers and information sources using two samples of Americans who have sought jobs in the past two-years. After a brief introductory chapter and a chapter reviewing ...
Framing Leader Messages for Highly Reliable Organizing
(2016-12-16)
This dissertation tests high-reliability organization (HRO) theory's claim that strategic leadership messages can direct followers’ sensemaking in adaptive ways (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2015). Specifically, two experiments ...
(DE)CENTERING HETERONORMATIVITY IN THE U.S. MILITARY: IDENTITY (RE)NEGOTIATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE FOLLOWING THE REPEAL OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”
(2016-05-13)
This study assesses: (1) cultural stigmatization processes and their influence on self-concept clarity for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States military, (2) the identity management strategies employed by GLB ...
Giving Your All: Evaluating Changing Social Identities Throughout the Assimilation Process in Full-Life Volunteer Organizations
(2016-05-14)
The present study evaluates the assimilation process for full-life volunteers in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) missionary program. The focus on full-life volunteers provided an opportunity to observe ...
Glocalization of the Korean Popular Culure in East Asia: Theorizing the Korean Wave
(2010)
This dissertation examines implications of the Korean Wave in relation to East Asia's contemporary media and popular culture, and discusses complex conditions and processing transformation of the Korean and East Asian media ...
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Hispanic Youth: A Study of Communication Patterns, Functional Fitness, and Psychological Health
(2010)
This study examines the psychological health and functional fitness of Hispanic youth from a theoretical perspective, specifically with respect to the role of their interpersonal communication patterns in their integration ...
Vested Interest and Disaster Preparedness
(2012)
In recent years the United States has recognized an increasing need for individual-level disaster preparedness, with federal, state and local government agencies finding only limited success in their efforts to institute ...
Intercultural communication of identity: A study of Japanese international students in the United States.
(2010)
This study aims to explore and understand how Japanese international students in the United States experience intercultural communication of identity. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted. The Japanese ...
Emerging Adulthood, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and the Environment: Young Hispanics in Oklahoma and New Mexico
(2010)
In this dissertation I examine the cross-cultural adaptation of Hispanic emerging adults in two distinct environments--the metropolitan areas of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These two research sites ...