Acculturation Attitudes and Social Adjustment in British South Asian Children: A Longitudinal Study

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2013

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Brown, Rupert
Baysu, Gülseli
Cameron, Lindsey
Nigbur, Dennis
Rutland, Adam
Watters, Charles
Hossain, Rosa
LeTouze, Dominique
Landau, Anick

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Sage Publications Inc

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A 1-year longitudinal study with three testing points was conducted with 215 British Asian children aged 5 to 11 years to test hypotheses from Berry's acculturation framework. Using age-appropriate measures of acculturation attitudes and psychosocial outcomes it was found that (a) children generally favored an integrationist attitude and this was more pronounced among older (8-10 years) than in younger (5-7 years) children and (b) temporal changes in social self-esteem and peer acceptance were associated with different acculturation attitudes held initially as shown by latent growth curve analyses. However a supplementary time-lagged regression analysis revealed that children's earlier integrationist attitudes may be associated with more emotional symptoms (based on teachers' ratings) 6 months later. The implications of these different outcomes of children's acculturation attitudes are discussed.

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Acculturation, Development, Intergroup relations, Well-being

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31

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39

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12

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1656

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1667