Acculturation/enculturation Flashcards
Explain Berry and al.2007
Investigated how well immigrant youth adapted to thier new culture and whether this was related to acculturation strategies and profiles.
-26 participants, 13 cultures of origin
- structured quesitonnings–> wide range of variables on acculturation and adaptation
Results:
statistical data generated four profiles
–> integration profile which followed integration strategies
–>national profiles which followed assimilation strategies
–>ethinic profile which followed separation strategies
–> difuse profile= unclear mix of separation, assimilation and marginalisation
Conclusion: integration was the most successful as it was more positive.
Explain Steele and Aronson (1995)
Investigated how stereotype threat affects test perfomrance
Black and white participants in situation of confrontation to stereotype
Condition one: black participants told that test was diagnosed based on intellectual ability, they performed worse
Condition two: when told studying how problems are generally formed, performed as well
Condition three: presentation of the test as a challenge–>induce moitvation
Conclusion: diagnostic condition activated racial stereotypes
4th experiment showed that indicating race on the paper was enough to negatively impact perfomance
Explain Shwartz and Zomboanga (2008)
Investigated Berry (2007)’s model of explaining acculturation with acculturation profiles.
Analysed a class of university and created categories for statistical analysis based on structured interviews like Berry, but without the bias of his previous research.
Results: they yielded 6 categories instead of 4 suggesting that assimilation and acculturation could be further subdivided
Evidence show that Berry’s profiles overlap most of the time
Conclusion:
new categories should be created in the original model
Limitation: study mostly focused on surface culture–> emphasis on psychological functionning could make the results line up better with the original model.
- University population doesn’t represent different socio-economic backgrounds.
