Cultural fit in emotion versus language: a study of Dutch-speaking Belgians and Turkish migrants in Belgium.

ABSTRACT: Cultural fit is thought to benefit immigrants' wellbeing and integration. Previous research on cultural fit focused on explicit attitudes (e.g., how individuals identify with their heritage and host cultures) at the expense of psychological processes (e.g., the extent to which individuals make meaning in similar ways with their surrounding culture). We examined cultural fit in meaning-making in emotional contexts in two complementary ways: first, based on patterns of emotion endorsement (emotional fit), second, based on patterns of word use describing emotional situations (language fit). Dutch-speaking Belgians and Turkish migrants in Belgium (Ns = 100) described two positive and two negative emotional situations, and rated the intensity of their experience on a set of emotio

SUBMITTER: Sencan RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11790563 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature