Globalization Studies

Ogihara and Uchida - Date

2014

What is Westernization?

When other countries start developing Western values and ideologies

What is the aim of Ogihara and Uchida's study?

To investigate how a change in values might be influencing the subjective well-being of young Japanese students

Ogihara and Uchida - Procedure

Questionnaire with likert scale about individualism then well-being

Ogihara and Uchida - Results

Negative correlation between Individualism in Japanese students and subjective well-being

Becker et al - Date

2002

Becker et al - Aim

To study the effect of westernization (brought by TV) on eating attitudes of Fijian girls

When was TV first introduced to Fiji?

1995

When did Becker et al.’s procedure take place?

1995 and 1998

Becker et al - participants

Indigenous Fijian teenage girls

Becker et al - Procedure

Used EAT and semi-structured interviews to evaluate Fijian girls on their body-image and eating habits/attitudes

EAT

Eating Attitudes Test (scores above 20 indicate risk of developing an eating disorder)

Becker et al: percentage of EAT scores above 20 (1995)

13%

Becker et al: percentage of EAT scores above 20 (1998)

29%

Becker et al: Relationship between TV in home and EAT score

Girls with a TV in their home were 3x more likely to have an EAT score above 20

Becker et al: Vomiting after eating percentages (1995)

0%

Becker et al: Vomiting after eating percentages (1998)

11%

Becker et al: Reported percentage of dieting behavior

69%

Becker et al: Reported percentage of body image issues

74%

Lyons-Padilla et al - Date

2015

Lyons-Padilla et al - Aim

To study the relationship between acculturation strategies, identity and extremism

Lyons-Padilla et al - participants

200 first and second generation Muslim immigrants in the US

Lyons-Padilla et al - Procedure

A questionnaire using Likert scale to assess marginalization, significance loss, interpretations of Islam, and support for fundamentalism.

Lyons-Padilla et al - Results (marg + sig)

Highly significant relationship between marginalization and feelings of significance loss

Lyons-Padilla et al - Results (sig + rad)

Highly significant relationship between significance loss and radical interpretation of Islam

Lyons-Padilla et al - Results ( sig + support)

Postive correlation between significance loss and support/sympathy for Fundamentalist group

Lyons-Padilla et al - Results (integration + sig)

Integration had a strong negative correlation with significance loss