June 19, 2016

‘“Cultural fit”: A new perspective on personality and sojourner adjustment’, published in International Journal of Intercultural Relations (1997) is authored by Prof Colleen Ward, former faculty member, and Dr Weining Chang, Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate School of Medicine.

The study aims to investigate the influence of “cultural fit” on sojourner adjustment by surveying 139 American residents in Singapore. The survey included completing questionnaires that measured extraversion, depression, and socio-cultural adaptation. To assess “cultural fit” discrepancy scores were calculated on the absolute differences between subjects’ extraversion scores and host culture norms.

Read the full article here.