Tridimensional acculturation and adaptation among Jamaican adolescent-mother dyads in the United States.

ABSTRACT: A bidimensional acculturation framework cannot account for multiple destination cultures within contemporary settlement societies. A tridimensional model is proposed and tested among Jamaican adolescent-mother dyads in the United States compared to Jamaican Islander, European American, African American, and other Black and non-Black U.S. immigrant dyads (473 dyads, M adolescent age = 14 years). Jamaican immigrants evidence tridimensional acculturation, orienting toward Jamaican, African American, and European American cultures. Integration is favored (70%), particularly tricultural integration; moreover, Jamaican and other Black U.S. immigrants are more oriented toward African American than European American culture. Jamaican immigrant youth adapt at least as well as nonimmigrant peers in

SUBMITTER: Ferguson GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3442943 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature