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JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 7, Pages 1122-1126Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0022022113480040
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personal values; value change; immigration; migration; acculturation; cultural psychology
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Returning to a sample of Ingrian Finnish migrants (N = 136) in which postmigration change in personal values has previously been documented, we investigated the permanency of such value change. Personal values, measured within the framework provided by Schwartz's (1992) values theory, were previously measured prior to migration and 1 year after migration. We now add a second follow-up, conducted 2 years after migration. At this time, the changes observed at the first follow-up were dissipating. Specifically, Universalism and Security values were now on the decline after having been elevated at the first follow-up (an inverted U-shape), and Achievement values were increasing in importance after having previously diminished (a U-shape). Personal values appear to react to changing social circumstances but then return close to their baseline levels. The results of the present research constitute the first longitudinal evidence for a rebound effect in personal values.
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