Appreciating diversity cultural and gender issues

Introdution

Part 1. Cultural Diversity

John W. Berry, Saba Safdar
Managing Acculturation and Multiculturalism in Plural Societes

Kealee Playford, Saba Safdar
A Comparison of Varoius Conceptualizations of Acculturation and the Prediction of Adaptation of International Students

Aneta Chybicka
Assimilation and Integration as Different Acculturation Strategies Related to the Level of Well-being of Tibetan Refugees in India

Saba Safdar, Anthony M. Fuller, John Rees Lewis
Beyond the City Limits: An Examination of Adjustment among Immigrants in Rural Canada

Karolina Mazurowska
Developing Intercultural Sensivity: The Case of German Expatriates in China

Hermann-Günter Hesse
Dealing with Diversity: Culture Specific Intercultural Competence in the Classroom

Paulina Petrus, Katarzyna Chojnacka, Anna Konopacka-Rzepiak
Rime and Onset Productivity by Polish Elementary School Children Obtaining Mono- and Bilingual Reading Acquisition

Part 2. Gender, Culture and Relations

Sowan Wong, Robin Goodwin
Predicting Marital Satisfaction acroos Cultures

Maria Kaźmierczak
Gendered Personality - Cultural Influences

Urmila Pillay, Robin Goodwin
Culture as a Moderator in the Relationship between Valuesand Social Support

Anna Kwiatkowska, Joanna Roszak
Cultural Factors in Perception of Conflicts in Close Relationships: A Cross-cultural Study

Aneta Chybicka, Smita Sinha
Do We Really Differ or We Just Assume So? Female Gender Role in Close Relation in Poland and India

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This present book entitled Appreciating diversity - cultural and gender issues edited by Aneta Chybicka and Maria Kazmierczak is an invaluable source of contemporary knowledge on many issues. Among the twelve chapters, seven are related to the psychological tasks that cultural diversity poses and five to close interpersonal relationships and their cross-cultural aspects. The reader can learn, among others, about Tibetan refugees in India, German expatriates in China, immigrants in rural Canada. Polish young adults' perception of conflicts in close relationships in Poland, France and Spain.
The chapters of the book, written by internationally highly acknowledged researchers of the field, are a great source of theoretical knowledge that serve to promote understanding of the studied phenomena and they also present brand new and exciting research results. Therefore this book is a must and a valuable learning material for those who are interested in cultural and gender issues both for personal and professional reasons.