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Article: Acculturation and cross-cultural adaptation: The moderating role of social support
Title | Acculturation and cross-cultural adaptation: The moderating role of social support |
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Keywords | Integration Marginalization Psychological adaptation Social support Sociocultural adaptation |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijintrel |
Citation | International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2017, v. 59, p. 19-30 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Previous studies have consistently demonstrated the beneficial impacts of the acculturation strategy of integration and the detrimental impacts of the acculturation strategy of marginalization on adaptation outcomes. This study attempts to extend the existing literature by examining the potential moderating role of social support in the relationships between acculturation strategies and cross-cultural adaptation. Specifically, it was hypothesized that social support from family, local friends, and non-local friends would enhance the positive effects of the integration strategy and buffer the negative effects of the marginalization strategy on sociocultural and psychological adaptation. Participants were 188 Mainland Chinese sojourning university students in Hong Kong. Consistent with our predictions, social support from local friends was found to significantly moderate the effects of the integration and marginalization strategies on sociocultural and psychological adaptation. Unexpectedly, it was shown that social support from non-local friends significantly weakened the positive effect of the integration strategy on psychological adaptation. In addition, further analyses on the potentially domain-specific effects of acculturation strategies and social support on psychological adaptation showed that social support from local friends and non-local friends and acculturation strategies of integration and marginalization interacted to influence only one specific domain of psychological adaptation (mutual trust and acceptance). Implications of this study and possible explanations for the discordant findings are discussed. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/246107 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.864 |
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dc.contributor.author | Ng, TK | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, KWC | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, W | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-18T02:22:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-18T02:22:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2017, v. 59, p. 19-30 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0147-1767 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/246107 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Previous studies have consistently demonstrated the beneficial impacts of the acculturation strategy of integration and the detrimental impacts of the acculturation strategy of marginalization on adaptation outcomes. This study attempts to extend the existing literature by examining the potential moderating role of social support in the relationships between acculturation strategies and cross-cultural adaptation. Specifically, it was hypothesized that social support from family, local friends, and non-local friends would enhance the positive effects of the integration strategy and buffer the negative effects of the marginalization strategy on sociocultural and psychological adaptation. Participants were 188 Mainland Chinese sojourning university students in Hong Kong. Consistent with our predictions, social support from local friends was found to significantly moderate the effects of the integration and marginalization strategies on sociocultural and psychological adaptation. Unexpectedly, it was shown that social support from non-local friends significantly weakened the positive effect of the integration strategy on psychological adaptation. In addition, further analyses on the potentially domain-specific effects of acculturation strategies and social support on psychological adaptation showed that social support from local friends and non-local friends and acculturation strategies of integration and marginalization interacted to influence only one specific domain of psychological adaptation (mutual trust and acceptance). Implications of this study and possible explanations for the discordant findings are discussed. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijintrel | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Intercultural Relations | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Integration | - |
dc.subject | Marginalization | - |
dc.subject | Psychological adaptation | - |
dc.subject | Social support | - |
dc.subject | Sociocultural adaptation | - |
dc.title | Acculturation and cross-cultural adaptation: The moderating role of social support | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ng, TK: tingkin@hku.hk | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.04.012 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85019113336 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 276360 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 59 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 19 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 30 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000405061900003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0147-1767 | - |