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

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
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)

Creator
Cristiano Inguglia
Pasquale Musso

DOI
10.5964/ejop.v11i1.872
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417371710561174
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  • Cristiano Inguglia
  • Pasquale Musso

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