Embracing Diversity- The Role of Cross-Cultural Research in Community Development

Embracing Diversity- The Role of Cross-Cultural Research in Community Development

Cross-Cultural Research

The Importance of Cross-Cultural Research in General

Cross-cultural research is essential because of the massive amount of information we can gather on different cultures’ beliefs, practices, traditions, behaviors, and motivations. We can begin to understand other cultures and, as a result, the more fundamental properties of being human than if we only studied one culture. When we conduct cross-cultural research, we give other cultures and ourselves the ability to look at the world and determine the best way to proceed on a given subject. The United States of America (the world’s melting pot) attracts people from all over the world to interact and blend into one society. If we continue to study cultures and their differences, we will eventually be able to understand and possibly assimilate those differences for the benefit of all cultures. We can incorporate the best of all cultures into our own.

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The Research Plan

This article’s research design focused on the potential problems that could be caused by the new phenomenon known as binge-watching. Binge-watching (television) is defined as watching multiple television shows in one sitting for a variety of reasons, including social (enjoying the experience with other people), emotional enhancement (enjoying the immersion of the experience and gaining new experiences), intellectual enrichment (gaining knowledge about a specific subject), or coping/escapism (the desire to deal with one’s problems by temporarily putting them to the side).

The study in this article was carried out by distributing a questionnaire to college students and asking them to rate their binge-watching habits on various point scales. There were six sections of questions on the questionnaire. The first looked at why people watched television. The second section determined whether the person engaged in any problematic binge-watching. The third assessed their level of happiness. The fourth assessed the person’s psychological symptoms, such as anxiety or depression. The fifth section assessed the person’s propensity for impulsive behavior. The sixth and final section assessed their internet compulsiveness.

Results

“Overall, positive relationships between the various subscales of the WTSMQ (Watching TV Series Motives Questionnaire) and the BWESQ emerged in all samples” (Binge-Watching Engagement and Symptoms Questionnaire). In this regard, non-problematic binge-watching factors (i.e., engagement, positive emotions, pleasure preservation, desire/savoring) were more strongly related to emotional enhancement. In contrast, problematic-binge-watching-related facets (i.e., dependency, loss of control) were more strongly related to coping-escapism.” (Flayelle, 2020, Cross-cultural evaluation of binge-watching)

Conclusion Evaluation

The findings were a little complicated, but I believe they discovered a link between positively viewing emotional enhancement viewing and binge-watching. People consider binge-watching to be a positive, emotionally uplifting experience.

The Research’s Applicability

This was an excellent study to conduct on the possibility of binge-watching-related problems developing. I’m sure all primary streaming services conducted a similar survey to encourage more people to binge-watch their shows. However, this is an excellent third-party objective study that would reveal any issues with the phenomenon.

I believe this research shows no major significant problems that result from binge-watching in general and thus does not need to be laid out for the general public with any urgency. The same survey methods can be used to assess any potential problems with entertainment consumption as entertainment evolves.

Bias in the research

In my opinion, this study did an excellent job of recruiting survey participants from diverse backgrounds, languages, and circumstances. I didn’t notice any bias from the survey distributors in this questionnaire. I did notice that they concentrated on college students, which may be a misrepresentation of all societies in this subject. The problem would be finding interested parties to take the questionnaire, and I believe that college students are more interested in this type of study than the average person. The article didn’t go into great detail about the cultural differences. It just gave a general conclusion of the findings as well as listing the results, so I guess one could do their research with this article and go deeper into the differences found in different cultures. Still, for this study, I believe the primary goal of this survey is just getting the numbers out there for others to assess.

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Reference

Maèva Flayelle, Jesús Castro-Calvo, Claus Vögele, Robert Astur, Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Gaëlle Challet- Bouju, Matthias Brand, Georgina Cárdenas, Gaëtan Devos, Hussien Elkholy, Marie Grall-Bronnec, Richard J.E. James, Martha Jiménez-Martinez, Yasser Khazaal, Saeideh Valizadeh-Haghi, Daniel L. King, Yueheng Liu, Christine Lochner, Sabine Steins-Loeber…Jiang Long (ND) Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching: Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching engagement and symptoms” questionnaires across nine languages, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 111,2020.

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You just started working at a think tank that produces cultural research for local, state, and national governments. Your first assignment is to write about cross-cultural research. Your research will help develop community initiatives to support increased diversity and community diversity and inclusion Research

• Explain the value of cross-cultural research in general.
• Summarize the research design.
• Summarize the findings from the research.
• Evaluate its conclusion.
• Discuss the applicability of the research.
• Discuss if the study adequately handled the different cultures without bias.