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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 39, February 4, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 38, February 1, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 19, February 01, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 37, January 28, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 18, January 25, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 36, January 25, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 35, January 21, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 34, January 18, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 17, January 18, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 33, January 14, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 32, January 11, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 16, January 11, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Escaping Gravity: One Library's Journey From Idea To Understanding, Lee C. Van Orsdel

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 3 Winter 2016, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

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Re-Think It Conference Proceedings, Grand Valley State University, Matt Ruen, Mary M. Somerville, Lori S. Mestre, Eric Kurt, Ilana Stonebraker, Tomalee Doan, Corey Seeman, Jeffery Scherer, Christine Tobias, Christina Mune, Sharon Thompson

Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age - Conference Proceedings

Essays contributed by participants in Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age, a conference on library design, services, values, and visions, which was held in the Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons at Grand Valley State University, August 10 - 12, 2015.

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Gvsu Press Releases, 2016, Grand Valley State University

University Press Releases, 1961-Present

A compilation of press releases for the year 2016 submitted by University Communications (formerly News & Information Services) to news agencies concerning the people, places, and events related to Grand Valley State University.

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Collecting Space Use Data To Improve The Ux Of Library Space, Shelley Gullikson, Kristin Meyer

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Collecting data about where people are and what they are doing is an easy entry point into exploring the UX of library space. This article examines projects at two academic libraries where space use data was collected multiple times per day for several months. The two projects were designed and carried out independently but had the same purpose: to better understand how students were using library spaces so that we could improve student experiences. Collecting space use data provided a baseline understanding of user behavior in these spaces. Similar to web analytics, this baseline can be useful on its own …

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Can The Children Of Immigrant Mothers Have Levels Of Health And Achievement As High As Those Of Children Of Mothers In The Host Population? Longitudinal Data From Australia, Julie Robinson

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The high levels of immigration currently experienced by many Western counties have seen the development and wellbeing of the children of immigrants become an important research issue. However, findings about the developmental trajectories and outcomes for children of immigrants are highly inconsistent. In addition, identifying the factors that predict these outcomes has been hampered by the widespread confounding of parents’ immigration status with other predictors (e.g., mothers’ education, and fluency in the language of the host country). Immigration to Australia offers a context in which the influence of some of these variables can be untangled. Most recent immigrants are highly …

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Multi-Factorial Measure Of Parenting And Children’S Psychological Disorders: A Cross-Cultural Study, Marwan Dwairy

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The association between parenting and child’s psychological states has been studied mainly according to Baumrind’s model of authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive parenting styles or according to Rohner’s acceptance- rejection theory. This study, in contrast, rests on the assumption that since parenting is a complex and dynamic process, it is better studied in terms of parenting profiles comprising several factors than via one or two parenting factors. We administered a questionnaire measuring seven parenting factors that cover various styles of acceptance and control to 975 male and female adolescents together with a scale of psychological states. Our results show that the …

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Family Climate And Adolescent Aggression: An Analysis Of Their Relationships, Carmen Rodríguez-Naranjo, Antonio Caño

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between family functioning (problem solving, communication, roles, affective responsiveness, affective involvement, behaviour control and general functioning) and the development of different expressions of aggressive behaviour in adolescents. Data were collected from a sample of 722 Spanish adolescents who completed the Family Assessment Device and the self-report form of the Children’s Social Behavior Scale. Regression analyses confirmed the specific influence of different dimensions of family functioning on specific types of aggressive behaviour in adolescents. These findings pointed out that a better understanding of family functioning dimensions is necessary in order …

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Bicultural Couples In China: Factors Related To Their Adjustment, Trine Pless-Rasumussen

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Research on bicultural couples has mainly been conducted in the USA and is primarily focused on interracial couples. The main challenge for biracial couples according literature on the subject is dealing with racism (Batson et al., 2006; Bischoff, 2005; Bratter & King, 2008; Firmin & Firebaugh, 2008; Hibbler & Shinew, 2002; Jacobson & Heaton, 2008; Kalmijn & van Tubergen, 2006; Killian, 2003; Thompson & Collier, 2006; Yancey, 2007). Few studies address cultural differences (Rodríguez García, 2006), including dating/cohabiting bicultural couples (Firmin & Firebaugh, 2008; Yancey, 2007). In China, the bicultural couple rate is increasing along with the immigrant flow. …

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Effectiveness Of Group Interventions For Depressed Iranian Migrants In Austria, Atefeh Fathi, Walter Renner, Barbara Juen

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Effectiveness of Group based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was investigated in a sample of 23 Iranian migrants living in Austria for an average 14 years and suffering from Major Depressive Disorder. The participants were randomized to: (1) individual CBT, (2) group based CBT and (3) wait-list control groups. Although the results showed a significant decrease in depression symptoms, no significant group differences were observed. The findings from this study suggest that the effectiveness of group based CBT may be influenced by Iranian socio-cultural characteristics.

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Culture Contact And The Development Of Intercultural Sensitivity, Julien Teyssier, Patrick Denoux, Anna Bayard-Richez

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The theory exhibited here is rooted in a culture-contact psychology perspective. It gives a central role to interculturation, transitory psychological reactions and intercultural sensitivity in such a way that the hypothesis investigated is thus expressed: “lasting critical culture-contact experience implies the development of intercultural sensitivity”. The content of this postulate requires that the study focus on distinct cultural areas. This is why the inhabitants of the cities of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Hong Kong (China) and Toulouse (France) were selected to answer a multidimensional questionnaire (n = 209), deriving from a theoretical approach and allowing the proposed hypothesis to be tested, …

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Who Is Responsible For The Conflict? The Role Of Identification And Perception Of Discrimination, Zeynep Balkaş, Zeynep Yanık, Elif Çelebi

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

This study examines whether identification (ethnic and national) and perception of discrimination between minority and majority members are related to attributions of responsibility in the context of the prolonged Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Understanding attributions of responsibility for the conflict are important because they can exacerbate or hinder conflict. The two ethnic groups, Turks and Kurds, hold different views of the conflict in which they are involved. We identify four primary parties in the current context of conflict: the Turkish state, the PKK, Kurdish citizens, and foreign states. The official state discourse holds that the PKK and the Kurds are …

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Cognitive Interview As An Effective Method In Cross-Cultural Research: A Study Of Organizational Leaders In Sweden And India, Urmi Nanda Biswas, Karin Allard, Annika Härenstam, Anders Poussette

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

This research attempts to demonstrate the effectiveness of cognitive interview (CI) techniques in the process of finalizing the survey instrument by establishing the conceptual equivalence of ethical values among managers from Sweden and India, from four different sectors namely, Corporate, Health, Education and Information Technology. CI was helpful in identifying items, which were difficult to answer or to understand, and with improper response categories. The results provided substantive insight into the cultural influence in the understanding of various values in the organizations. The paper highlights the types and applications of CI in different fields of the study of human behavior.

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Growing Awareness Of Cultural Aspects Of Psychology As A Resource For Managing Progressive Social Change, Robert Serpell

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

I suggest that CCP’s early preoccupation with direct comparison between culturally-contrastive groups has been overtaken in importance by a number of trends in developmental and applied psychology. Some Western theorists now acknowledge reflexively that their interpretation of psychological variables is itself informed by a particular cultural system of meanings. A growing number of non-Western theorists have proposed alternative cultural psychologies. Mainstream developmental psychology has incorporated culture as an essential dimension of the field, leading to increasingly systemic theories. Cultural sensitivity is widely perceived as essential for the design and interpretation of psychological assessment. The IACCP has contributed to these trends …

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Parenting Practices, Racial Socialization, And Adolescent Functioning In African American Families, Adeya Richmond, Laura D. Pittman

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

African American parents’ use of racial socialization messages has been associated with other parenting practices and behaviors as well as adolescent functioning. This study explored the relationships among racial socialization, general parenting practices (e.g., parental monitoring knowledge, harsh parental discipline, and parent-child relationship) and three psychological outcomes (e.g., scholastic competence, self-esteem, and externalizing behaviors) among 103 African American adolescents. Based on linear regressions, adolescents’ scholastic competence was positively associated with cultural socialization and negatively associated with promotion of mistrust, but self-esteem and externalizing behaviors were not linked to any racial socialization dimension. Further, cultural socialization was …

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The Experience Of Skilled Migrant Women In Switzerland: Challenges For Social And Professional Integration, Juliana Nunes-Reichel, Marie Santiago-Delefosse

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Recent studies on migrants’ social and professional integration in Switzerland indicate that migrant women are the most vulnerable group. Researches highlight the “deskilling power” of migration but tend to focus on a descriptive level, without considering the influence of context and the heterogeneity of migrants’ experiences. This qualitative study aims to investigate the meaning of migration and integration process from participants’ point of view: their challenges, strategies and the impact of the migration experience on self-image. Semi-structured interviews (n = 30) were conducted with two groups of skilled migrant women: group one are skilled women who migrated through the invitation …

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When Arab Girls Break The Rules: A Qualitative Study, Camelia Ibrahim-Nassar

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Much has been written about the social control of Arab girls as one of the parental practices in a collective culture. Most girls are subject to strict rules and modesty codes and only a few dare to confront their culture by breaking the rules and engaging in risky unacceptable behavior. In this study, we interviewed eight such girls to examine why, when, and how they defied acceptable social norms and the consequences they suffered. Interestingly, the experience of risk taking yielded narratives that revealed a search for personal, social, and gender identity and highlighted the effect of the strictness of …

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(De)Constructing Multiculturalism: A Discourse Analysis Of Immigration And Refugee System In Canadian Media, Kim H. Chuong, Saba Safdat

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

A succession of policy changes to the immigration and refugee system has been made in Canada in recent years by the Conservative federal government. Since most people’s understandings about immigration issues come from exposure to the news, the media have an important role in producing and reproducing prevalent public opinions to support and legitimize, or criticize, social and political actions. The present study examines how the immigration and refugee policy changes have been represented in mainstream print media and provides an important interface between recent political decision-making and society with regard to immigration issues. In our analysis, we demonstrate that …

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 39, February 4, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 38, February 1, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 19, February 01, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 37, January 28, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 18, January 25, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 36, January 25, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 35, January 21, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 34, January 18, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 17, January 18, 2016, Grand Valley State University

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Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 33, January 14, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 32, January 11, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 16, January 11, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Escaping Gravity: One Library's Journey From Idea To Understanding, Lee C. Van Orsdel

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 3 Winter 2016, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Re-Think It Conference Proceedings, Grand Valley State University, Matt Ruen, Mary M. Somerville, Lori S. Mestre, Eric Kurt, Ilana Stonebraker, Tomalee Doan, Corey Seeman, Jeffery Scherer, Christine Tobias, Christina Mune, Sharon Thompson

Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age - Conference Proceedings

Gvsu Press Releases, 2016, Grand Valley State University

University Press Releases, 1961-Present

Collecting Space Use Data To Improve The Ux Of Library Space, Shelley Gullikson, Kristin Meyer

Scholarly Papers and Articles

Can The Children Of Immigrant Mothers Have Levels Of Health And Achievement As High As Those Of Children Of Mothers In The Host Population? Longitudinal Data From Australia, Julie Robinson

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Multi-Factorial Measure Of Parenting And Children’S Psychological Disorders: A Cross-Cultural Study, Marwan Dwairy

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Family Climate And Adolescent Aggression: An Analysis Of Their Relationships, Carmen Rodríguez-Naranjo, Antonio Caño

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Bicultural Couples In China: Factors Related To Their Adjustment, Trine Pless-Rasumussen

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Effectiveness Of Group Interventions For Depressed Iranian Migrants In Austria, Atefeh Fathi, Walter Renner, Barbara Juen

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Culture Contact And The Development Of Intercultural Sensitivity, Julien Teyssier, Patrick Denoux, Anna Bayard-Richez

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Who Is Responsible For The Conflict? The Role Of Identification And Perception Of Discrimination, Zeynep Balkaş, Zeynep Yanık, Elif Çelebi

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Cognitive Interview As An Effective Method In Cross-Cultural Research: A Study Of Organizational Leaders In Sweden And India, Urmi Nanda Biswas, Karin Allard, Annika Härenstam, Anders Poussette

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Growing Awareness Of Cultural Aspects Of Psychology As A Resource For Managing Progressive Social Change, Robert Serpell

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Parenting Practices, Racial Socialization, And Adolescent Functioning In African American Families, Adeya Richmond, Laura D. Pittman

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The Experience Of Skilled Migrant Women In Switzerland: Challenges For Social And Professional Integration, Juliana Nunes-Reichel, Marie Santiago-Delefosse

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

When Arab Girls Break The Rules: A Qualitative Study, Camelia Ibrahim-Nassar

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

(De)Constructing Multiculturalism: A Discourse Analysis Of Immigration And Refugee System In Canadian Media, Kim H. Chuong, Saba Safdat

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences