There are three ways you can help the research and participate.
1. Wherever you are on the globe, you can help through sending written accounts / cases of critical incidents you have experienced. Please go to section participation in the collection of critical incidents.
2. If you now live in Paris, you can participate in a series of 3 interviews to map your identity
or
3. You can fill out a questionnaire that helps me understand what competenes and skills facilitate the adjustment process.
Please see the following sections for further details:
Participation through tests
Participation in the longitudinal study
About the research
Cross-cultural or intercultural transition refers to a set of very concrete phenomena: how we feel, behave, and change when we find ourselves in a new cultural environment.
The mere fact of being “abroad” in a new cultural space implies that we have to decode signs we are not used to, continuously fine-tune our expected scenarios, our representations of the new place as we find our old expectations falsified. The notion of “culture shock” (Oberg 1955) summarizes the often dramatic effect of the experience. As a consequence, we automatically set in motion a series of psychological mechanisms to help us regain comfort, a feeling of security and good thoughts about ourselves. The main objective of the research is to explore what happens in such adjustment processes, what makes it difficult, and why some people have it easier than others.
Please click on "participation" (menu on lefit side) to find out how you can participate or check some background theories under "theory". You can also find some interesting reading recommendations under "bibliography"
The mere fact of being “abroad” in a new cultural space implies that we have to decode signs we are not used to, continuously fine-tune our expected scenarios, our representations of the new place as we find our old expectations falsified. The notion of “culture shock” (Oberg 1955) summarizes the often dramatic effect of the experience. As a consequence, we automatically set in motion a series of psychological mechanisms to help us regain comfort, a feeling of security and good thoughts about ourselves. The main objective of the research is to explore what happens in such adjustment processes, what makes it difficult, and why some people have it easier than others.
Please click on "participation" (menu on lefit side) to find out how you can participate or check some background theories under "theory". You can also find some interesting reading recommendations under "bibliography"
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