Hello! My name is K. Elizabeth McDonald and I am a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education at The Pennsylvania State University. I am currently conducting research that explores wellness in transcultural individuals. I am looking for participants for a research study. If you fit the following criteria, please consider participating in this study:
1. You have spent a significant part of your formative years (before age 18) outside of the country that issued your passport.

2. You intended/have intent to return to your passport country to reside.

3. You are 18-years-old or older.

If you agree to participate, you will respond to questionnaires that will take approximately 15-25 minutes to complete. Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and you are free to withdraw from the study at anytime. No personal identifying information is required, therefore you will not be linked to any publications or presentations from this study. Participants will be eligible to participate in a drawing for one of five $25.00 gift certificates to Better World Books (an online bookstore that ships internationally for a flat fee).

Please click on the link below if you are eligible and interested in participating.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SLd1AlxFgCj9U7iSGW_2b1_2bQ_3d_3d

This study is voluntary and for research purposes. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me, K. Elizabeth MCDonald (kem319@psu.edu) or my advisor, Dr. JoLynn Carney (jcarney@psu.edu).

If you know of someone who fits this criteria, please send this email to them!

Please do not hit “reply” because that may reply to a list-serve.

Thank you very much for your help,
~K. Elizabeth McDonald

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Fellow TCKs,

I am currently embarking on an exhaustive research project on TCKs, comparing them to monocultured individuals seeking to determine a difference in social and emotional adaptability. This research is significant and I believe will help the TCK community at large, as there is fairly little academic research in this arena.

Having said that, I am in great need of participants. If you would be willing to take 20 minute survey online this would be tremendously helpful to me and the academic information on TCKs.

1. Go to the website: http://www.allynlyttle.com/
2. Select “Survey” and input necessary information
3. Password required is: “personality”
4. Follow the instructions for the different sections

Thank you for your assistance in this. If you know of any other TCKs who may participate, please share the information. Again, this could potentially reflect some significance differences in our “culture.”

Sincerely,
Allyn Lyttle

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Fellow TCKs,
I’m currently completing my masters degree dissertation, which is on TCKs and I need participants, who are TCKs, to take an online survey. If you would be willing to help me out, further the academic knowledge of TCKs, or just have some free time, please contact me so I can send you the information.

Thank you so much,
Allyn

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Hey everyone!

I was just wondering, is there anyone on here who has done or is currently doing undergraduate research projects on TCKs and/or Expats? I’m in the process of starting, but I’m having trouble narrowing my focus and I was wondering how other people did it? Like I keep changing my title every few days and it makes it difficult to write a questionnaire when my focus keeps changing. At the moment, my focus is on the after effects of the experience and the difficulty of repatriation/culture shock. My big problem is my supervisors want me to stick to a specific nationality group living in a specific area, and I have major issues with this. It’s gonna be so incredibly difficult for me to research something that specific for reasons I’m sure you all understand. I’m gonna talk to my supervisor about that tomorrow. Thanks guys!

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Hi,

My name is Alyssa and I am a TCK. I’m currently a MA student who is conducting a research on the Effect of Culture on Theory of Mind ability to help and benefit TCKs like you and me as well as non-TCKs too! If you’re interested please click on either of the link below to find out more.

Thank you!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0b5LtoyMUo8_2fNrPCxcvkNg_3d_3d

or

<a href=”http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0b5LtoyMUo8_2fNrPCxcvkNg_3d_3d“>Click Here to take survey</a>

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So my vacuum chamber is broken and I gave my precursor molecule to someone else to do an experiment with that hasn’t worked yet, and I’m a little short on research I can actually do. I decided to see if I could dig up some more research pertaining to TCKs with the free time. (Don’t tell my advisor! I printed 200 pages on Friday!) I found a lot of stuff that sounds cool. I haven’t read nearly all of it yet, but one paper stood out to me as particularly interesting. I wrote a blog post on it with some more detail, but I was wondering what you guys thought of the thesis and of what I think is a good way to pinpoint how a TCK is different from a CCK.

In the paper (Hong, Y.-Y., Morris, M. W., Chiu, C.-Y., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2000) Multicultural Minds: A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture and Cognition. American Psychologist, 55(7), 709-720), Hong et al point out that culture has been seen in cross-cultural psychology like a contact lens that influences you all the time. They think seeing culture as a network of knowledge makes better sense, because that makes it natural to describe being part of more than one culture as having two or more culture networks that can kick in. Intuitively, that makes total sense to me. Sometimes something makes me ‘kick in’ to a particular cultural mode. In the paper, they talk about people using one cultural network in one situation and another network in another situation.

I think that we third culture kids have cross-linked cultural networks. Bicultural people and CCKs can switch between two networks, whereas I think we just fuse our cultural networks into one big network and that’s why it’s so frustrating when people we meet don’t understand all of our culture networks. I think that’s what the third culture really is – connecting several cultures into one cultural network. What do you guys think? Makes sense? Did I miss something? Feel free to comment here or on my blog, if you like.

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