Intercultural Profiles and Adaptation Among Immigrant and Autochthonous Adolescents
Abstract: Few studies examine relationships between intercultural strategies and adaptation among adolescents using a person-oriented approach. Framed from an intercultural psychology perspective, this study used such an approach in order to examine the influence of intercultural profiles, patterns of relationships among variables related to intercultural strategies, on the adaptation of adolescents of both non-dominant and dominant groups. Two hundred and fifty-six adolescents living in Italy and aged from 14 to 18 participated to the study: 127 immigrants from Tunisia (males = 49.61%) and 129 autochthonous (males = 44.19%). Data were collected through self-report questionnaires. Using cluster analytic methods to identify profiles, the results showed that immigrant adolescents were divided in two acculturation profiles, ethnic and integrated-national, with adolescents belonging to the latter showing higher self-esteem, life satisfaction and sociocultural competence than the former. Also amo.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/872
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Intercultural Profiles and Adaptation Among Immigrant and Autochthonous Adolescents ; volume:11 ; number:1 ; day:27 ; month:02 ; year:2015
Europe's journal of psychology ; 11, Heft 1 (27.02.2015)
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Cristiano Inguglia
Pasquale Musso
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10.5964/ejop.v11i1.872
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417371710561174
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:52 AM CEST
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- Cristiano Inguglia
- Pasquale Musso