William Gabrenya

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor Emeritus at Florida Institute of Technology

Expatriate effectiveness has been studied extensively in the expatriate literature. Despite its popularity, the construct has not been well-defined or properly operationalized. Adopting a performance perspective, we conceptualize expatriate effectiveness in terms of task, contextual, and adaptive performance. The relative importance of each type of...

Over the course of 50 years, the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) and its flagship journal, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JCCP), have been lynchpins in the relationship between theory and practice. We provide evidence that cross-cultural psychology, as practiced by members of the IACCP, performs an essential b...

The assessment of cross-cultural competence (3C) and related constructs is of vital importance for both theoretical and practical reasons. The present review was undertaken to evaluate the quality of instrumentation designed to measure individuals’ capabilities for living and working successfully in cross-cultural contexts. The psychometric propert...

This chapter is a collection of anecdotes of Professor Yang’s personal life that had a transformative impact on his former colleagues and students in many ways. It combines six essays that bring to light two aspects of Prof Yang, a passionate researcher and a caring mentor. In academia, Prof. Yang was an unparalleled pioneer who strove tirelessly i...

At last, our book is out... This e-book is the result of a huge collective work towards Unity, Diversity and Cul- ture. This e-book is composed of 80 chapters organized in five units and 21 sections, coming from the international congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, IACCP, which took place during the summer 2014 i...

The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness project (Project GLOBE) was initiated in the early 1990s with the goal of constructing a culturally universal model of implicit leadership—the ideas held by individuals about the characteristics of effective leaders—in the form of “culturally endorsed implicit leadership dimensions” (C...

The recent, rapid development of international work and organizational psychology (iWOP) is taking place in the context of a broader academic movement toward internationalization in higher education. In the USA, the American Council on Education (ACE), the National Association for Foreign Student Administrators (NAFSA), and the Institute of Interna...

The present study was designed to assess the viability of developing quantitative measures of cross-cultural competence as an emergent organizational-level construct using samples of military organizations. Cross-cultural competence has predominantly been discussed as an individual-level construct but has not been extensively assessed as an organiz...

Due to the rapid of globalization in the Information Age, students must become adept at navigating the complex and ambiguous nature of the global business environment. One major roadblock for training students to become global professionals is the lack of international curriculum within Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology programs at leading...

The research project described in this technical report was undertaken to address one of several challenges affecting the Department of Defense’s goal of increasing the cross-cultural competency (3C) of military and civilian personnel—valid measurement of 3C and its antecedents. High quality measurement of 3C is important for selection and training...

Child sexual abuse changes the lives of countless children. Child sexual abuse victims experience short and long term negative outcomes that affect their daily functioning. In this study, undergraduate students' perceptions of CSA were obtained using vignettes with an adult or child perpetrator and a general questionnaire. Results indicated partici...

This study investigates the dimensionality of a recently developed measure of social beliefs—the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) for American respond-ents. Ethnic group and geographical differences in the endorsement of social beliefs were also assessed with the SAS with samples of college and noncollege students in eight locations in the USA (N = 2,164...

We culturalists are an unusual lot! Dispersed geographically and divided socially by potential and real political conflict, economic competition, religious disagreement and vast disparities in wealth and resources, we struggle with the dilemma of studying diversities that can only be understood adequately through effective communication and collabo...

This study investigates the dimensionality of a recently developed measure of social beliefs—the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) for American respondents. Ethnic group and geographical differences in the endorsement of social beliefs were also assessed with the SAS with samples of college and noncollege students in eight locations in the USA (N = 2,164)...

A five-part model of the development of indigenous psychology movements was proposed from a sociology of science perspective, two parts of which, the local relevance path and the conditions of work path, were examined in the context of the Taiwan Indigenous Psychology Movement (TIPM). The Local Relevance Path focuses on indigenous movements’ concer...

An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that observers' causal attributions about an actor's performance at a task would be affected by their social perspective in observing the situation. Observer subjects were either assigned to serve in a role comparable to that of observer-subjects in most actor-observer experiments or were assigned...

summarize what is known in Western and Chinese social science about the interpersonal behaviour / [discuss] Chinese behaviour / [use] the term relation-oriented personalism or relationalism / emphasize the great extent to which Chinese social interaction is stereotypically 'collectivist' (cooperative or harmonious) in certain social contexts but in...

This report details the soldier language/culture issues of possible relevance to US military effectiveness, especially in those systems with critical human-computer interfaces. In general, it was found that although few applied studies have been conducted, basic research as well as anecdotal reports indicate that such variables can, and frequently...

Research conducted in the United States and in several non-Western societies has found that people exert greater effort when they work individually than when they do so in a group that obscures identifiability of members' individual outputs, a phenomenon termed "social loafing." It was argued that the apparent transcultural generality of social loa...

Research conducted in the United States indicates that people exert greater effort in a variety of task situations when they perform individually than when they do so in a group that obscures identifiability of members' individual outputs, a phenomenon termed "social loafing." It was hypothesized that members of cultures whose value emphases and so...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the degree to which persons distinguish between what are termed attitudinal and distant consequence expectancies, the conditions under which consequential expectancies predict behavior, and the effects of conflicting attitudinal and consequential expectancies. Attitudinal expectancies are beliefs about...

Factor analyses of the Self-Monitoring Scale (M. Snyder, 1974) were conducted with 2 samples of undergraduates obtained during consecutive years (690 Ss in 1977, 817 Ss in 1978). Four factors replicated across years for both males and females: Theatrical-Acting Ability, Sociability/Social Anxiety, Other-Directedness, and Speaking Ability. The corre...

The present study was designed to test whether or not the use of representativeness and causality heuristics in decision-making results from insufficient or nonvigilant information processing rather than from an inherent deficiency in human information-processing ability. It was hypothesized that subjects who were distracted while making prediction...

Research has shown that individuals' causal attributions are affected by the degree of public scrutiny of their behavior (Bradley, 1978). An experiment was conducted to test a self-presentational explanation of this finding. High and low self-monitors were or were not closely scrutinized (videotaped) during their performance of a task at which they...

Undergraduate students were asked to perform several interracial behaviors. Half of the subjects were committed to their decisions prior to volunteering; the other half were not. Committed subjects volunteered for fewer behaviors and evaluated the behaviors less positively than did uncommitted subjects. Multiple regression analyses revealed that co...