Minority and Majority Adolescents' Attitudes toward Mutual Acculturation and its Association with Psychological Adjustment.

ABSTRACT: Although acculturation is considered a mutual process, no measure assesses attitudes toward mutual acculturation. Through a novel four-dimensional measurement, this study addresses this research gap by assessing attitudes toward minority and majority acculturation and its relation to psychological adjustment for immigrant-background minority and non-immigrant majority adolescents in public secondary schools in three European countries: in Germany (n = 346, 46% female, M_age = 12.78 years, range 11-16), Greece (n = 439, 56% female, M_age = 12.29 years, range 11-20), and Switzerland (n = 375, 47% female, M_age = 12.67 years, range 11-15). Latent profile analyses led to three distinct acculturation profiles in all three countries: strong and mild mutual integrati

SUBMITTER: Sidler P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232442 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature