Part Ⅰ．The Background

1．Introduction

Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures

Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation

2．Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives

Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation

Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation as Learning/Growth

Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical Assessments

Divergent Value Premises:Assimilationism and Pluralism

Toward Integration

Part Ⅱ．The Theory

3．Organizing Principles

The Domain and Boundary Conditions

Assumptions:Strangers as Open Systems

Mechanics of Theorizing

Empirical Grounding

4．The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Cultural Adaptation

Cross-Cultural Adaptation

The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic:A Process Model

Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation

Axioms

5．The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Personal Communication:Host Communication Competence

Social Communication

Environment

Predisposition

Linking Dimensions and Factors:A Structural Model

Assumptions,Axioms,and Theorems

Part Ⅲ．Elaboration of the Theory

6．Personal Communication

Host Communication Competence

Cognitive Components

Affective Components

Operational Components

Linking Cognitive,Affective,and Operational Components

7．Social Communication

Host Social Communication

Ethnic Social Communication

Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social Communication

8．Environment

Host Receptivity

Host Conformity Pressure

Ethnic Group Strength

Linking Factors of Communication and Environment

9．Predisposition

Preparedness for Change

Ethnic Proximity

Adaptive Personality

Linking Factors of Communication and Predisposition

10．Intercultural Transformation

Functional Fitness

Psychological Health

Intercultural Identity

Emergence of Intercultural Personhood

Part Ⅳ．The Theory and the Reality

11．Research Considerations

The Theory:PrincipalFeatures

Theory-Research Correspondence

Toward Methodological Integration

12．Practical Insights

Understanding Adaptation Potential

Host Environment as Partner

Willingness to Be Changed

Managing Stress

Focusing on Communicative Engagement

Cultivating Adaptive Personality

Forging a Path of Intercultural Personhood

Notes

References

Index

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