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An investigation of Africans and Hongkongers relationship : a social psychological approach
Get PDFWhen members of different social groups come into contact, interactions and intergroup attitudes are not always reciprocal between the groups. Within social psychology, intergroup relations research has long been a topic of interest. Yet, such research has mostly been conducted in Western cultural settings. There is scant research from an East Asian cultural context, where intercultural encounters have been on the rise. Existing psychological literature has put much attention on the experiences of migrants and minorities, while the views of the host majority members would often be neglected. This thesis addresses this lacuna by using social psychological theories and research designs to simultaneously examine and contrast the perceived intergroup relationships and attitudes between Africans and local Hong Kong Chinese in Hong Kong. In this thesis, social psychological research on intergroup relations forms the basis of the investigation, where several social-psychological variables, including power, intergroup perceptions, intergroup contact, threat perceptions, acculturation, and prejudice were examined in three studies to reveal the intergroup relation between African minority and Hong Kong Chinese majority. Study 1 involved an experimental manipulation of power perception among 78 local Hong Kong Chinese (Mage = 19.86, SD = 1.70) in testing the effects of power on explicit prejudice and stereotyping towards different ethnocultural groups. Results indicated a main effect of power on explicit prejudice and stereotyping towards ethnic minorities, where explicit prejudice and stereotyping were more pronounced among participants who were induced to perceive themselves as more powerful. This effect differed across various ethnocultural target groups. Study 2 involved an investigation of 60 African participants (Mage = 31.83, SD = 4.51) and 64 Hong Kong Chinese participants (Mage = 24.89, SD = 0.87), where the effects of ingroup identification and power perception on intergroup perceptual bias and evaluations were examined. The findings illustrated an overall ingroup bias in intergroup perceptions, with a more pronounced ingroup bias found in the Hong Kong Chinese sample. Further analysis also showed that perceived power of the outgroup was related to more positive outgroup evaluations. Study 3 examined the relationship between intergroup experiences and acculturation. Using a cross-sectional design, samples of Africans (N = 215) and local Hong Kong Chinese (N = 467) were surveyed, and the data were analysed using path analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). Results indicated that specific acculturation orientations are associated with contact experiences for Africans and Hong Kong Chinese. Additionally, for the Hong Kong Chinese, positive contact predicted less prejudice, while negative contact predicted stronger prejudice towards Africans. For the African sample, negative contact significantly predicted less prejudice towards Hongkongers. Intergroup anxiety and perceived threat mediated the effects of contact on prejudice in both samples. Notably, the relationship between intergroup contact and prejudice was weaker for Africans than for Hongkongers, highlighting asymmetries in intergroup relations between Africans and Hong Kong Chinese. These findings underscore the significance of taking into account the perspectives of both the minority and the host majority members in a shared framework when studying intergroup attitudes with the aim of enhancing intergroup relations. Overall, this research makes a significant contribution to the literature on intergroup relations by addressing the processes of bidirectional acculturation and reciprocal intergroup relations between minorities and majorities in a specific sociocultural context, which is an often-neglected approach in previous social-psychological research
Adaptation and social interaction among Africans in Hong Kong: The role of assimilation and integration
Get PDFPromoting cross-cultural adaptation and social interactions among diverse cultural groups in multicultural societies has long been a focus of social and cross-cultural psychologists. However, such research is scant in an East Asian context where acculturation and intercultural encounters are now taking place. This study examines how acculturation expectations and strategies of assimilation and integration of the host majority (Hongkongers; N = 476) and immigrant groups (Africans; N = 215) shape adaptation and social interaction in the sociocultural context of Hong Kong. The mediation roles of perceived discrimination and multicultural ideologies were tested in these relationships. The results revealed that integration strategies are linked with psychological adaptation, whereas assimilation is linked with sociocultural adaptation difficulties for the immigrant group. For the host majority group, assimilation expectations were related to increased sociocultural adaptation difficulty, while a negative relationship emerged between integration expectations and sociocultural adaptation difficulty. Additional mediation analyses demonstrated that perceived discrimination and multicultural ideologies explain a significant proportion of variance in acculturation orientations and the intention to avoid interactions with the respective cultural groups. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings for Africans and Hongkongers relationship are discussed. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.publishedVersio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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