Cross-Cultural Comparison

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Mixed blessings': parental religiousness, parenting, and child adjustment in global perspective. 
  • A binational school survey of depressive symptoms, drug use, and suicidal ideation. 
  • A comparative study of monoclonal gammopathies and immunoglobulin levels in Japanese and United States elderly. 
  • A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraint. 
  • A comparison of neuropsychological performance between US and Russia: preparing for a global clinical trial. 
  • A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United States. 
  • A cross-cultural interpersonal model of adolescent depression: A qualitative study in rural Nepal. 
  • A longitudinal examination of mothers' and fathers' social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries. 
  • A mixed-methods approach to developing a self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination measure for use in multiethnic health surveys. 
  • A model of psychosocial and cultural antecedents of blood pressure control. 
  • A multinational review of recent trends and reports in dementia caregiver burden. 
  • A multistate model of fecundability and sterility. 
  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World. 
  • An ecological-transactional model of significant risk factors for child psychopathology in outer mongolia. 
  • An evaluation of the reliability and validity of the visual functioning questionnaire (VF-11) using Rasch analysis in an Asian population. 
  • An international comparison of two systems of community mental health care. 
  • Annual Research Review: Cross-cultural similarities and differences in parenting. 
  • Assessing the impact of cancer among Dutch non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors compared with their American counterparts: a cross-national study. 
  • Associations Between Perceived Material Deprivation, Parents' Discipline Practices, and Children's Behavior Problems: An International Perspective. 
  • Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries. 
  • Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study. 
  • Change over time in parents' beliefs about and reported use of corporal punishment in eight countries with and without legal bans. 
  • Childrearing discipline and violence in developing countries. 
  • Children's respect for ownership across diverse societies. 
  • China's agenda for an old-age insurance program in rural areas. 
  • Communal expectations conflict with autonomy motives: The western drive for autonomy shapes women's negative responses to positive gender stereotypes. 
  • Comorbidity of late life depression: an opportunity for research on mechanisms and treatment. 
  • Comparison of utilization of dental care services among Chinese- and Russian-speaking immigrant elders. 
  • Consensus statement on transcultural issues in depression and anxiety from the International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety. 
  • Considering PTSD for DSM-5. 
  • Consistent Belief in a Good True Self in Misanthropes and Three Interdependent Cultures. 
  • Cooperative medical schemes in contemporary rural China. 
  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries. 
  • Correlates and Consequences of Spanking and Verbal Punishment for Low-Income White, African American, and Mexican American Toddlers 
  • Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Assessment of the Liver Disease Symptom Index 2.0 to Measure Health-Related Quality of Life Among Iranian Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B. 
  • Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the AUDIT and CAGE Questionnaires in Tanzanian Swahili for a Traumatic Brain Injury Population. 
  • Cross-Cultural Associations of Four Parenting Behaviors With Child Flourishing: Examining Cultural Specificity and Commonality in Cultural Normativeness and Intergenerational Transmission Processes. 
  • Cross-Cultural Differences in Patient Perceptions of Dyskinesia in Parkinson's Disease. 
  • Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups. 
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Kessler Scale of Psychological Distress to a traumatic brain injury population in Swahili and the Tanzanian Setting. 
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the MMSE and MoCA questionnaires in Tanzanian Swahili for a traumatic brain injury population. 
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the short musculoskeletal function assessment questionnaire: the SMFA-BR. 
  • Cross-cultural adaptation of motivational interviewing for use in rural Nepal. 
  • Cross-cultural comparison of patients undergoing ACL reconstruction in the United States and Norway. 
  • Cross-cultural considerations in administering the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale. 
  • Cross-cultural effects of parent warmth and control on aggression and rule-breaking from ages 8 to 13. 
  • Cross-cultural variability of component processes in autobiographical remembering: Japan, Turkey, and the USA. 
  • Cross-cultural variation in thirst perception in hot-humid and hot-arid environments: Evidence from two small-scale populations. 
  • Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition: the Japanese data--a response to O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho 1986. 
  • Daylength during pregnancy and shyness in children: results from northern and southern hemispheres. 
  • Demographically Corrected Normative Standards for the Spanish Language Version of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery. 
  • Depression in Taiwanese patients with Alzheimer's disease determined by the National Institutes of Mental Health Provisional Criteria. 
  • Depressive symptoms by self-report in adolescence: phase I of the development of a questionnaire for depression by self-report. 
  • Development and validation of a cross-cultural knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey instrument for chronic kidney disease in a Swahili-speaking population. 
  • Development of aggression. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of Spanish language depression-screening instruments. 
  • Differences in care-seeking behavior for acute chest pain in the United States and Japan. 
  • Differences in life satisfaction among older community-dwelling Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites. 
  • Differences in psychiatric symptoms among Asian patients with depression: a multi-country cross-sectional study. 
  • Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Do You Want to Hear the Bad News? The Value of Diagnostic Tests for Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • Does classification of persons with fibromyalgia into Multidimensional Pain Inventory subgroups detect differences in outcome after a standard chronic pain management program? 
  • Emotional health of Canadian and Finnish students with disabilities or chronic conditions. 
  • Equity of access to outpatient care and hospitalization among older community residents in Brazil. 
  • Even at 4 months, a labial is a good enough coronal, but not vice versa. 
  • Examining effects of mother and father warmth and control on child externalizing and internalizing problems from age 8 to 13 in nine countries. 
  • Examining effects of parent warmth and control on internalizing behavior clusters from age 8 to 12 in 12 cultural groups in nine countries. 
  • Examining the internalizing pathway to substance use frequency in 10 cultural groups. 
  • Experiences and concerns of family caregivers providing support to people with dementia: A cross-cultural perspective 
  • Factors associated with consumption of alcohol in older adults - a comparison between two cultures, China and Norway: the CLHLS and the HUNT-study. 
  • Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere. 
  • GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: INTRODUCTION 
  • Generalized anxiety disorder: nature and course. 
  • Getting the message out about cognitive health: a cross-cultural comparison of older adults' media awareness and communication needs on how to maintain a healthy brain. 
  • God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems. 
  • Harsh Parenting in Relation to Child Emotion Regulation and Aggression 
  • Heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan general theory of mortality and aging. 
  • Indigenous perspectives on depression in rural regions of India and the United States. 
  • Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model. 
  • International consensus statement on major depressive disorder. 
  • International differences in evolution of early discharge after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality. 
  • Links between family relationships and best friendships in the United States and Japan. 
  • Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries. 
  • Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator. 
  • Loving those who justify inequality: the effects of system threat on attraction to women who embody benevolent sexist ideals. 
  • Major depressive disorder treatment guidelines in America and Europe. 
  • Maternal socialization goals, parenting styles, and social emotional adjustment among Chinese and European American young adults: testing a mediation model. 
  • Measurement Invariance and Convergent Validity of Anger and Sadness Self-Regulation Among Youth From Six Cultural Groups. 
  • Measurement of materialism and spiritualism in substance abuse research. 
  • Modernization and status of the aged: international correlations. 
  • Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries. 
  • Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory in People With Hepatitis B Infection: Cross-cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version. 
  • Multiple chronic pain states are associated with a common amino acid-changing allele in KCNS1. 
  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. 
  • Nativity and cigarette smoking among lower income blacks: results from the Healthy Directions Study. 
  • Nepali concepts of psychological trauma: the role of idioms of distress, ethnopsychology and ethnophysiology in alleviating suffering and preventing stigma. 
  • Nudging the obese: a UK-US consideration. 
  • One-month prevalence of mental disorders in the United States. Based on five Epidemiologic Catchment Area sites. 
  • Opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency during adolescence in nine countries. 
  • Oscillatory alpha power at rest reveals an independent self: A cross-cultural investigation. 
  • Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness. 
  • Parental acceptance-rejection and child prosocial behavior: Developmental transactions across the transition to adolescence in nine countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys. 
  • Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age 7 to 14 in nine countries. 
  • Perceived mother and father acceptance-rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries. 
  • Perceived racial/ethnic harassment and tobacco use among African American young adults. 
  • Predicting child aggression: The role of parent and child endorsement of reactive aggression across 13 cultural groups in 9 nations. 
  • Primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease among African-Americans: a social epidemiological perspective. 
  • Protocol of a randomized controlled trial of culturally sensitive interventions to improve African Americans' and non-African Americans' early, shared, and informed consideration of live kidney transplantation: the Talking About Live Kidney Donation (TALK) Study. 
  • Provider encouragement of breast-feeding: evidence from a national survey. 
  • Racial differences in cognitive decline in a sample of community-dwelling older adults: the mediating role of education and literacy. 
  • Reconsidering somatic presentation of generalized anxiety disorder in Nepal. 
  • Recruiting intergenerational African American males for biomedical research Studies: a major research challenge. 
  • Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study. 
  • Religion and Caregiving for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers Across Four Religious Traditions and Five Global Contexts. 
  • Religion, spirituality and mental health in the West and the Middle East. 
  • Religious/spiritual characteristics of indian and indonesian physicians and their acceptance of spirituality in health care: a cross-cultural comparison. 
  • Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest behavior. 
  • Replicating the positivity effect in picture memory in Koreans: evidence for cross-cultural generalizability. 
  • Research with spanish-speaking populations in the United States: lost in the translation. A commentary and a plea. 
  • Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: a commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "a cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62: 6, 2005, 1486-1497). 
  • Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. 
  • Simulating trait evolution for cross-cultural comparison. 
  • Spanish validation of the Brief Assessment in Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. 
  • Spirituality and depression: a look at the evidence. 
  • Spirituality and health in the curricula of medical schools in Brazil. 
  • Spirituality and religion in outpatients with schizophrenia: a multi-site comparative study of Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. 
  • Spirituality, Religiosity, and Health: a Comparison of Physicians' Attitudes in Brazil, India, and Indonesia. 
  • Spirituality, depression and suicide: a cross-cultural perspective. 
  • Stakeholder acceptability of adolescent participation in clinical trials for biomedical HIV prevention products: considerations from Tanzania and India. 
  • Symptom profiles of psychiatric disorders based on graded disease classes: an illustration using data from the WHO International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. 
  • Taking Turns or Not? Children's Approach to Limited Resource Problems in Three Different Cultures. 
  • Temporal and age variation of United States black/white cause-specific mortality differentials: a study of the recent changes in the relative health status of the United States black population. 
  • Temporal evolution in the management of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction: the seven-year GUSTO experience from canada and the united states. The North American GUSTO-I and GUSTO-III investigators. 
  • The Impact of Cost-Effectiveness on Public and Private Policies in Health Care: An International Perspective: Introduction and overview 
  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Maladaptive Parenting and its Impact on Child Mental Health: Examining Cross-Cultural Mediating Pathways and Moderating Protective Factors. 
  • The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups. 
  • The cultural roots of free will beliefs: How Singaporean and U.S. Children judge and explain possibilities for action in interpersonal contexts. 
  • The development of perceptual grouping biases in infancy: a Japanese-English cross-linguistic study. 
  • The effects of cultural background on patient-perceived impact of psoriatic arthritis - a qualitative study conducted in Brazil and France. 
  • The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. 
  • The normative and personal life: Individual and cultural differences in personal life stories and cultural life scripts 
  • The relationship between religious attendance and blood pressure: the HUNT Study, Norway. 
  • Theory and methods in cultural neuroscience. 
  • Timing of poverty in childhood and adolescent health: Evidence from the US and UK. 
  • To "do the right thing" or to "just do it": locomotion and assessment as distinct self-regulatory imperatives. 
  • Training Psychiatrists for Global Mental Health: Cultural Psychiatry, Collaborative Inquiry, and Ethics of Alterity. 
  • Translation of clinical and neuropsychological instruments into French: the CERAD experience. 
  • Trauma, mental health, distrust, and stigma among HIV-positive persons: implications for effective care. 
  • Traumatic events and posttraumatic stress in cross-cultural mission assignments. 
  • Use of erythropoietin in cancer patients: assessment of oncologists' practice patterns in the United States and other countries. 
  • Validation and application of a needs-based segmentation tool for cross-country comparisons. 
  • Validation of Chichewa Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment (SMFA) questionnaire: A cross-sectional study. 
  • Validation of a cross-cultural instrument for child behavior problems: the Disruptive Behavior International Scale - Nepal version. 
  • Validation of the French version of the BACS (the brief assessment of cognition in schizophrenia) among 50 French schizophrenic patients. 
  • Validation of the German version of the brief assessment of cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) - preliminary results. 
  • Vitamin D levels and cognition in elderly adults in China. 
  • Weight-related quality of life in Spanish obese subjects suitable for bariatric surgery is lower than in their North American counterparts: a case-control study. 
  • Why does the worldwide prevalence of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder matter? 
  • Why dying doesn't seem to matter: the influence of culture on physicians in Bali, Indonesia. 
  • Widowhood and illness: a comparison of social network characteristics in France, Germany, Japan, and the United States. 
  • Within- and between-person and group variance in behavior and beliefs in cross-cultural longitudinal data. 
  • Worldwide stress: different problems, similar solutions? Cultural adaptation and evaluation of a standardized stress management program in Hungary. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Salvador, Cristina E, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sigal, Peter, Professor of History, History