Adolescents' mutual acculturation attitudes and their association with national self-identification in three Swiss cantons.

ABSTRACT: Acculturation is a mutual process, meaning that members of minority as well as majority groups acculturate and thus experience cultural and psychological changes when having intercultural contact. This study assessed mutual acculturation attitudes in the school context through a four-dimensional measurement examining attitudes toward (1) migration background students' heritage culture maintenance and their (2) dominant culture adoption, (3) majority students' intercultural knowledge acquisition, and (4) schools' intercultural contact endorsement. Acculturation attitudes are commonly analyzed through minority and majority perspectives; however, the ways in which researchers categorize group members can differ significantly from how those members self-identify. This matters particularly for

SUBMITTER: Sidler P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10320855 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature