Unpacking the Benefits of Bicultural Competence: Latina/x/o College Students’ Academic and Psychosocial Adjustment

2021 ◽  
pp. 216769682110343
Author(s):  
Selena Carbajal ◽  
Katharine H. Zeiders ◽  
Antoinette M. Landor
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Bicultural Competence ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Longitudinal Association ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Theories posit that bicultural competence, the ability to negotiate between U.S. mainstream culture and one’s own heritage culture, is an important cultural adaptation skill for Latina/x/o populations’ academic and psychosocial outcomes, in part, because of the ability to hold and resolve competing perspectives within and across contexts. However, more research is needed to identify the associations of distinct dimensions of bicultural competence to academic and psychosocial adjustment. The current study examined the concurrent and short-term, longitudinal association between bicultural competence (i.e., comfort, facility, and advantages) and Latina/x/o college students’ ( N = 54; Mage = 19.94 years, SD = 1.43) academic and psychosocial adjustment. Bicultural comfort and facility, but not bicultural advantages, were concurrently associated with better academic and psychosocial adjustment. The findings highlight the need to help Latina/x/o college students feel positive and able about adapting to both cultures to improve their academic and psychosocial adjustment.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation

2021 ◽  
pp. 095679762110064
Author(s):  
Kinga Bierwiaczonek ◽  
Jonas R. Kunst
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Acculturation Theory ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Mainstream Culture

When moving to a new country or living in that country as ethnic-minority-group members, individuals have to relate to different cultural spheres. Scholars and practitioners commonly agree that how people acculturate influences their psychological and sociocultural adaptation. Integration (or biculturalism), which involves engagement in both one’s heritage culture and the dominant mainstream culture, is considered the most beneficial acculturation strategy. But how robust is the evidence for the role of acculturation in adaptation? Here, we present a reanalysis of a previous meta-analysis of mostly correlational studies ( k = 83, N = 23,197) and a new meta-analysis of exclusively longitudinal studies ( k = 19, N = 6,791). Results show that the correlational link between acculturation and adaptation is much weaker than previously assumed and that longitudinal evidence is minuscule at best. Our findings suggest that empirical support is still lacking for the most basic premises of acculturation theory.

Psychosocial adjustment of U.S. college students in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yuko Okado ◽  
Courtney Scaramella ◽  
Ha M. Nguyen ◽  
Benjamin Mendoza ◽  
Tanya Watarastaporn
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment

Cultural Adaptation of the Focus on Kids Program for College Students in China

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Li ◽  
Bonita Stanton ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Rong Mao ◽  
Hongshia Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Cultural Adaptation

scholarly journals Religiosity, values, and acculturation

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derya Güngör ◽  
Marc H. Bornstein ◽  
Karen Phalet
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Culture Maintenance ◽  
Mainstream Culture

We address the understudied religious dimension of acculturation in acculturating adolescents who combine a religious Islamic heritage with a secularized Christian mainstream culture. The religiosity of 197 Turkish-Belgian adolescents was compared with that of 366 age-mates in Turkey (the heritage culture) and 203 in Belgium (the mainstream culture) and related to cultural values, acculturation orientations, and ethnic identification. Belgian adolescents showed lower and declining religiosity with age, whereas Turkish and Turkish-Belgian adolescents were more religious regardless of age. Acculturating adolescents reaffirmed religion as compared with monocultural adolescents in Turkey. Religious reaffirmation was related to cultural values of interdependence, heritage culture maintenance, and ethnic identification.

scholarly journals Do Feelings of Defeat and Entrapment Change over Time? An Investigation of the Integrated Motivational—Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour Using Ecological Momentary Assessments

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (13) ◽  
pp. 4685
Author(s):  
Jana-Sophie Stenzel ◽  
Inken Höller ◽  
Dajana Rath ◽  
Nina Hallensleben ◽  
Lena Spangenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Longitudinal Association ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Short Term Variability

(1) Background. Defeat and entrapment have been highlighted as major risk factors of suicidal ideation and behavior. Nevertheless, little is known about their short-term variability and their longitudinal association in real-time. Therefore, this study aims to investigate whether defeat and entrapment change over time and whether defeat predicts entrapment as stated by the integrated motivational–volitional model of suicidal behavior. (2) Methods. Healthy participants (n = 61) underwent a 7-day smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) on suicidal ideation/behavior and relevant risk factors, including defeat and entrapment and a comprehensive baseline (T0) and post (T2) assessment. (3) Results. Mean squared successive differences (MSSD) and intraclass correlations (ICC) support the temporal instability as well as within-person variability of defeat and entrapment. Multilevel analyses revealed that during EMA, defeat was positively associated with entrapment at the same measurement. However, defeat could not predict entrapment to the next measurement (approximately two hours later). (4) Conclusion. This study provides evidence on the short-term variability of defeat and entrapment highlighting that repeated measurement of defeat and entrapment—preferably in real time—is necessary in order to adequately capture the actual empirical relations of these variables and not to overlook significant within-person variability. Further research—especially within clinical samples—seems warranted.

scholarly journals Effects of a short‐term group fitness intervention on body composition and exercise motivation in college students

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Hamre ◽  
Nobuko Hongu ◽  
Vinson R. Lee ◽  
Gale S. Welter ◽  
Joshua Nicholas Farr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Body Composition ◽  
Exercise Motivation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Group Fitness

scholarly journals Acculturation Orientation of Migrant Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faruk Bozdağ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Migrant Students ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Acculturation Orientation ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Due to the intensification of global migration movements, the importance of studies in the field of acculturation has been increasing. In order to develop a healthy adaptation process between the migrant community and the host society, it is especially necessary to conduct studies on the acculturation processes of young migrants. Exploring the acculturation orientation of migrant students in Turkey, one of the leading countries experiencing the migration movements intensively, this study collected data from a total of 110 migrant students, 69 females and 41 males. “Vancouver Index of Acculturation”, “Revised Social Contact Scale”, “Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support”, “Turkish Proficiency Level Questionnaire” and “Personal Information Form” were employed as data collection tools. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The analyses results revealed that the level of perceived social support of migrant students from their families and the quality of social contact significantly predicted their heritage culture orientation and explained 18% of them. In addition, the quantity of migrant students’ social contact and the quality of social contact significantly predicted their mainstream culture orientation and explained 25% of them. As a result, the present study put forth that in order to support the heritage culture orientation of migrant students, the perceived social support from the family should be improved, and the quantity and quality of social contact should be increased to reinforce their mainstream culture orientation and to facilitate the acculturation processes.

The influences of different types of social media activities on ethnic minorities’ acculturation

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110479
Author(s):  
Chun Lai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Bicultural Competence ◽  
Ethnic Minority Students ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Weak Association ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Adopting the activity-audience framework, this study examined how different social media activities among a group of ethnic minority students associated with acculturation. It took a Qual-Quant sequential design by interviewing 44 secondary school ethnic minority students in Hong Kong first to conceptualize the potential relationships and then surveying 565 students to test the conceptual model. It found that different social media activities associated differently with acculturation; in contrast to the weak association of communication with friends and schoolmate, consuming mainstream culture-related information and interacting with strangers from the mainstream culture were the important determinators of the students’ bicultural competence and bicultural identity. Cognitive appraisal positively mediated the contribution of information consumption, whereas communication with strangers was mediated positively by behavioral appraisal but negatively by affective appraisal. The findings advocate a differentiated approach toward utilizing the affordances of social media activities for acculturation.

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