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AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
Volume 65, Issue 4, Pages 237-251Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0019330
Keywords
acculturation; immigrant; cultural practices; cultural values; cultural identifications
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- NIDA NIH HHS [K01 DA019409, DA019409, DA026550, R01 DA025694] Funding Source: Medline
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This article presents an expanded model of acculturation among international migrants and their immediate descendants. Acculturation is proposed as a multidimensional process consisting of the confluence among heritage-cultural and receiving-cultural practices, values, and identifications. The implications of this reconceptualization for the acculturation construct, as well as for its relationship to psychosocial and health outcomes, are discussed. In particular, an expanded operationalization of acculturation is needed to address the immigrant paradox, whereby international migrants with more exposure to the receiving cultural context report poorer mental and physical health outcomes. We discuss the role of ethnicity, cultural similarity, and discrimination in the acculturation process, offer an operational definition for context of reception, and call for studies on the role that context of reception plays in the acculturation process. The new perspective on acculturation presented in this article is intended to yield a fuller understanding of complex acculturation processes and their relationships to contextual and individual functioning.
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