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PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 3-45Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1745691616655997
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acculturation; culture; immigrant; migration; specificity
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- Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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The specificity principle in acculturation science asserts that specific setting conditions of specific people at specific times moderate specific domains in acculturation by specific processes. Our understanding of acculturation depends critically on what is studied where, in whom, how, and when. This article defines, explains, and illustrates the specificity principle in acculturation science. Research hypotheses about acculturation can be more adequately tested, inconsistencies and discrepancies in the acculturation literature can be satisfactorily resolved, acculturation interventions can be tailored to be more successful, and acculturation policies can be brought to new levels of effectiveness if the specificity principle that governs acculturation science is more widely recognized.
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