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Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates

This study looks at the adjustment of self initiated academic expatriates working at one of the public universities in Malaysia.The main aim of the research is to investigate the relationship between Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) and the expatriate’s personal, professional and social...

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Main Authors: Halim, Haslina, Abu Bakar, Hassan, Mohamad, Bahtiar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2014
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BF Psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/13006/1/pro9.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.267
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spelling my.uum.repo.130062016-05-15T02:14:54Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13006/ Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates Halim, Haslina Abu Bakar, Hassan Mohamad, Bahtiar BF Psychology LB2300 Higher Education This study looks at the adjustment of self initiated academic expatriates working at one of the public universities in Malaysia.The main aim of the research is to investigate the relationship between Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) and the expatriate’s personal, professional and social adjustment.The MPQ consists of five dimensions - cultural empathy, openmindedness,social initiative, emotional stability and flexibility.One-hundred and one questionnaires were distributed to selfinitiated academic expatriates attached to various departments at the university. Results show that the MPQ predicts all three types of adjustment.Apart from the results, the discussions and limitations of the study are also presented in the paper. Elsevier Ltd. 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd http://repo.uum.edu.my/13006/1/pro9.pdf Halim, Haslina and Abu Bakar, Hassan and Mohamad, Bahtiar (2014) Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 155. pp. 123-129. ISSN 1877-0428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.267 doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.267
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topic BF Psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
spellingShingle BF Psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
Halim, Haslina
Abu Bakar, Hassan
Mohamad, Bahtiar
Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates
description This study looks at the adjustment of self initiated academic expatriates working at one of the public universities in Malaysia.The main aim of the research is to investigate the relationship between Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) and the expatriate’s personal, professional and social adjustment.The MPQ consists of five dimensions - cultural empathy, openmindedness,social initiative, emotional stability and flexibility.One-hundred and one questionnaires were distributed to selfinitiated academic expatriates attached to various departments at the university. Results show that the MPQ predicts all three types of adjustment.Apart from the results, the discussions and limitations of the study are also presented in the paper.
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author Halim, Haslina
Abu Bakar, Hassan
Mohamad, Bahtiar
author_facet Halim, Haslina
Abu Bakar, Hassan
Mohamad, Bahtiar
author_sort Halim, Haslina
title Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates
title_short Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates
title_full Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates
title_fullStr Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates
title_full_unstemmed Expatriate adjustment: Validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates
title_sort expatriate adjustment: validating multicultural personality trait among self-initiated academic expatriates
publisher Elsevier Ltd.
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/13006/1/pro9.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/13006/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.267
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