Cross Cultural Research

Evaluating Cross-Cultural Research
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First describe the reference of the article, such as title of the academic journal, title of the article, author(s)’ name(s), and year of publication, in APA format.
[Chen X., Liu X., Fu R., Li D., Liu J., (2018, August 29) Self- and Group-Orientations and Adjustment in Urban and Rural Chinese Children, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 88.5]
Theory and Hypotheses
1.( √ ) Does the theory “make sense” for all the cultures being tested in the study?
*If not, describe your solution:
2.(√ ) Are the hypotheses meaningfully equivalent for all participants?
*If not, describe your solution:
Methods
3.(√) Is the design appropriate for the question being addressed?
*If not, describe your solution:
4.(√ ) Are the subjects adequate representatives of their culture?
*If not, describe your solution:
5.(√ ) Is culture operationalized according to socio-psychological constructs?
*If not, how is it operationalized?
6.(√ ) Are the subjects equivalent for comparison purposes—no other characteristics or demographic confounds?
*If not, describe your solution:
7.(√ ) Are the concepts being measured equivalent in all cultures in the study?
*If not, describe your solution:
8.(√ ) Do the scales, subscales, and items being used have the same reliability and validity characteristics in all cultures in the study?
*If not, describe your solution:
9.(√ ) Are the scales/constructs contextualized meaningfully for all subjects?
*If not, describe your solution:
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(√ ) Do subjects come to the laboratory or complete testing procedures with equivalent expectations?
*If not, describe your solution:
11.(√ ) Is procedural equivalence established across nuisance parameters of the study?
*If not, describe your solution:
12.(√ ) Did the researchers establish linguistic equivalence in their methods and research protocols by using back-translation procedures?
*If not, describe your solution:
Data and Analyses
13.(√ ) Do subjects provide data on a level of measurement that is meaningful to them while at the same time equivalent across cultures?
*If not, describe your solution:
14.(√ ) Are there cultural response sets operating in the data set?
*If so, describe your solution:
15.(√ ) Do the researchers take adequate steps to check for cultural response sets and control them if necessary?
*If not, describe your solution:
16.(√ ) If cultural differences are found, do the researchers provide an index of the size of those differences (effect size statistics)?
*If not, describe your solution:
Interpretations and Conclusions
17.(√ ) Are the interpretations of the findings bound by the cultural filters and biases of the researcher or of the theories?
*If so, describe your solution:
18.(√ ) Do the researchers make value judgments based on the findings?
*If so, describe your solution:
19.(√ ) Are the interpretations sufficiently tempered by awareness of the unconscious cultural processes that may have affected the research or theory?
*If not, describe your solution:
20.(√ ) Do the researchers make unwarranted cause-effect interpretations of the relationship between culture and their target variables?
*If so, describe your solution:
21.(√ ) Are the interpretations of cultural mediators justified in relation to how culture was operationalized in the study?
*If not, describe your solution:
22.(√ ) Are there sufficient methodological concerns to preclude any meaningful conclusions based on the data presented?
*If not, describe your solution:
Other Questions about the Study
1.How do the findings contribute to our knowledge with regard to cultural influences on the target variables of interest?
2.How would changes in any aspect of the methodology affect the outcomes of the study (for example, cultural or demographic backgrounds of the participants, or methods of measuring key variables)?
3.Can the findings be used by some to foster stereotypes of members of the cultures represented in the study?
4.Can the findings be used by some to foster prejudice or discrimination against members of the cultures represented in the study?
It is possible because these are findings relating to a distinction between rural children and urban children. They could be used to discriminate against the rural in that they cannot work unsupervised or alone or they could discriminate against the urban children in that they cannot work as a team in combination with others.