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Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation
We examine how cultural distance between sojourners’ country of origin and their host country influences their engagement in intercultural exchange upon return. One might expect intercultural exchange to be much harder between culturally-distant countries than culturally-close ones, given that the f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10579379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37845352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44906-w |
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author | Zou, Xi Wang, Dan J. Wildschut, Tim Sedikides, Constantine Cable, Dan |
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description | We examine how cultural distance between sojourners’ country of origin and their host country influences their engagement in intercultural exchange upon return. One might expect intercultural exchange to be much harder between culturally-distant countries than culturally-close ones, given that the former vary more in norms or expected behaviors from one’s home country. Our novel theorizing, however, leads to precisely the opposite expectations. In particular, we hypothesized that cultural distance between the repatriates’ home and host countries would be positively associated with being inspired by the host culture. In turn, this heightened inspiration would predict an increased sharing of knowledge about the host culture upon returning home (intercultural exchange). We combined measurement-of-mediation (Study 1) and experimental-causal-chain (Studies 2–3) approaches to test and confirm these hypotheses in three large samples of repatriates. We first examined whether cultural distance predicted greater intercultural exchange via repatriates’ heightened inspiration (Study 1). We then tested the individual links in this postulated causal chain. In Study 2, a quasi-experiment, we examined the causal path from cultural distance to inspiration. In Study 3, we experimentally manipulated inspiration to test its causal effect on intercultural exchange. The findings advance theory and application around multicultural experience and intercultural exchange. |
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spelling | pubmed-105793792023-10-18 Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation Zou, Xi Wang, Dan J. Wildschut, Tim Sedikides, Constantine Cable, Dan Sci Rep Article We examine how cultural distance between sojourners’ country of origin and their host country influences their engagement in intercultural exchange upon return. One might expect intercultural exchange to be much harder between culturally-distant countries than culturally-close ones, given that the former vary more in norms or expected behaviors from one’s home country. Our novel theorizing, however, leads to precisely the opposite expectations. In particular, we hypothesized that cultural distance between the repatriates’ home and host countries would be positively associated with being inspired by the host culture. In turn, this heightened inspiration would predict an increased sharing of knowledge about the host culture upon returning home (intercultural exchange). We combined measurement-of-mediation (Study 1) and experimental-causal-chain (Studies 2–3) approaches to test and confirm these hypotheses in three large samples of repatriates. We first examined whether cultural distance predicted greater intercultural exchange via repatriates’ heightened inspiration (Study 1). We then tested the individual links in this postulated causal chain. In Study 2, a quasi-experiment, we examined the causal path from cultural distance to inspiration. In Study 3, we experimentally manipulated inspiration to test its causal effect on intercultural exchange. The findings advance theory and application around multicultural experience and intercultural exchange. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10579379/ /pubmed/37845352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44906-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Zou, Xi Wang, Dan J. Wildschut, Tim Sedikides, Constantine Cable, Dan Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation |
title | Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation |
title_full | Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation |
title_fullStr | Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation |
title_short | Cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation |
title_sort | cultural distances between home and host countries inspire sojourners to engage in intercultural exchange upon repatriation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10579379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37845352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44906-w |
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