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Lefringhausen, Katharina and Marshall, T. C. (2016) Locals bidimensional acculturation model : validation and associations with psychological and sociocultural adjustment outcomes. Cross-Cultural Research, 50 (4). pp. 356-392. doi:10.1177/1069397116659048 ISSN 1069-3971.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069397116659048
Abstract
Across two studies, we tested whether members of host communities (i.e., locals) can themselves simultaneously maintain their national culture maintenance and adapt toward cultural diversity (i.e., multiculturalism) in their own home country, supporting a bidimensional model of acculturation, or whether these strategies are incompatible, supporting a unidimensional model of acculturation. We modified the Vancouver Index of Acculturation (Multi-VIA) to assess locals’ national culture maintenance and multicultural adaptation within their own home country. Study 1 supported the bidimensionality of the Multi-VIA in an American sample (n = 218). Moreover, we found an oblique association between locals’ national culture maintenance and multicultural adaptation. In Study 2, we tested the Multi-VIA’s psychometric properties across three continent groups (North America, Europe, and Asia; N = 619). Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated good model fit for the entire sample. Nevertheless, the association between national culture maintenance and multicultural adaptation was orthogonal for Asians and oblique for Americans and Europeans. In addition, national culture maintenance predicted higher levels of locals’ life satisfaction, whereas multicultural adaptation was associated with less acculturative stress and greater intercultural sensitivity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Multiculturalism | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cross-Cultural Research | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1069-3971 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 37 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 356-392 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1069397116659048 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 September 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 September 2016 |
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