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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Acculturation Strategy"”.
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Resettlement Challenges for Refugees in the United States
… data was conceptualized utilizing Berry’s (2008) acculturation framework, and it was found that the families utilized the acculturation strategy of integration. Recommendations are provided for volunteer programs in which Americans assist newly resettled refugee families as well as for policies …
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Do Multicultural Experiences and Biculturalism Promote Creativity in International Students?
… (1945, Karl Duncker), the Vancouver Index of Acculturation (VIA; Ryder, Alden, & Paulhus, 2000), the Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students (ASSIS; Sandhu & Asrabadi, 1994), and a modified version of Social Support (Koeske & Koeske, 1989, 1993). Results from the study did not …
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Immigration-Related Identity Markers and Well-Being in Academia: Perceptions of Conflict at Work and Life Satisfaction Among Foreign-Born Professors in the United States
… immigration-related identity markers, that is acculturation strategy adopted and migrant personality, impact the levels of private life satisfaction, work satisfaction, and perceptions of conflict at work. Results of Ordinary Least Squares regression analyses revealed that maintaining a balance …
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To identify issues that impact upon the acculturation and adaptation of Chinese Mandarin-speaking students taking undergraduate studies in British business schools
… in the UK, the problems and difficulties of acculturation and adaptation into local life and their academic studies are always challenging the Chinese students. This research aims to identify the impacting factors upon the acculturation and adaptation of Chinese Mandarin-speaking students …
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INTEGRATING AFRICAN-CENTERED WORLDVIEW AND ACCULTURATION AS PREDICTORS OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES IN AFRICAN AMERICANS
… of African-centered theories of worldview and acculturation as cultural constructs. Four hypotheses were tested, 1a) greater African-centered worldview is expected to be associated with higher self-esteem, and 1b) lower psychological distress, 2a) relationships between African-centered …
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The Relationship Between Discrimination, Acculturation, and General Psychological Functioning in International Students
… and how it is related to pre-contact factors, acculturation factors, and adjustment factors. A more thorough understanding of this important, but often overlooked, aspect of acculturation could lead to future interventions designed to improve international student experiences while abroad. …
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Muslim Women on the Catholic Campus: The Search for Identity, Community, and Understanding
… of this study was an attempt to understand the acculturation experience (Berry, 1997) of female Muslim students at two Catholic universities in the American Midwest. The underlying issue which informed this study was how Muslim women cope and learn in the context of an American, Catholic …
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Searching for Success: Predictors of Academic Adjustment of International Students
… one cultural environment to another is known as acculturation. Previous studies of acculturation have identified acculturative stress, English proficiency, and social support as key factors associated with the overall adjustment of international students (Mori, 2000; Pedersen, 1991; Sandhu, 1995, …
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Sleeping bags, s’mores and the great outdoors : the role of nature-based leisure in refugee integration in Canada
… potential impact of nature-based leisure on the acculturation strategies of refugees in Canada, with a focus on the integration mode, and in particular, the inclination to participate fully in the larger society. The study is underpinned by Berry’s (1997) acculturation theory, which posits the …
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Children of Ameriturk mothers and traditional Turkish fathers: perceived remote acculturation gaps between divorced coparents, and child well-being in Turkey
… study is to explore effects of parental remote acculturation and parental remote acculturation gaps in behavior and identity domains on child well-being in divorced families in Turkey. Altogether, 177 divorced mothers from three cities in Turkey completed questionnaires reporting their remote …
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From the heart of Islam to an Irish campus: a critical analysis of twelve male Saudi Arabian students’ experiences on the King Abdullah Scholarship Programme
… the findings on the efficacy of the programme’s acculturation strategy, combined with the reflexive analysis, will call for a raised awareness of all student mobility programmes in Ireland, the impact of student mobility on identity, and the role campuses play in the internationalisation of …
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“Diversity: Our Strength” : South and East Asian immigrants’ ethnic identity in the Greater Toronto Area
… has chosen integration as the official immigrant acculturation strategy, thus, immigrants can retain their ethnic identity without being pressured to become more Canadian. They should be able to retain their language, culture, values and beliefs if they want. The results provided on the basis of …
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Exploring public management and diversity in a single embedded case-study : Developing new theories and strategies for cultural diversity management in German public administrations
… wrought by organisationally pre-defined‘acculturation strategies’ that determine the cultural and value-based orientation and implementation of these diversity strategies. The study, therefore, focuses on the organisational acculturation strategy and the (hitherto missing) understanding …
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Strategie akulturace a vyjednávání identity u jedinců s migrační zkušeností
Cílem mé práce je zachytit jaké akulturační strategie v rámci dlouhodobého kontaktu s majoritní společností využívají mladí dospělí, kteří jsou druhou generací vietnamských migrantů v České republice. Dalším výzkumným cílem je zachytit, jakým způsobem dochází k vyjednávání vlastní identity u …
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Language, identity and parenting in acculturation: A case study of Saudi Arabian mothers sojourning in New Zealand
… assist a situated explanation of the process of acculturation (Berry, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2011) that these Saudi mothers underwent, and the most recent model (Kolb, 2015) was refined to develop a construct of cross-cultural experiential learning. This study contributes a qualitative understanding …