Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Am Psychol. 2010 May-Jun;65(4):237-51. doi: 10.1037/a0019330.
This article presents an expanded model of acculturation among international migrants and their immediate descendants. Acculturation is proposed as a multidimensional process consisting of the confluence among heritage-cultural and receiving-cultural practices, values, and identifications. The implications of this reconceptualization for the acculturation construct, as well as for its relationship to psychosocial and health outcomes, are discussed. In particular, an expanded operationalization of acculturation is needed to address the "immigrant paradox," whereby international migrants with more exposure to the receiving cultural context report poorer mental and physical health outcomes. We discuss the role of ethnicity, cultural similarity, and discrimination in the acculturation process, offer an operational definition for context of reception, and call for studies on the role that context of reception plays in the acculturation process. The new perspective on acculturation presented in this article is intended to yield a fuller understanding of complex acculturation processes and their relationships to contextual and individual functioning.
本文提出了一个扩展的国际移民及其直系后代的文化适应模型。文化适应被认为是一个多维度的过程，由遗产文化和接受文化的实践、价值观和认同的融合构成。这种重新概念化对文化适应结构的影响，以及它与心理社会和健康结果的关系，将进行讨论。特别是，需要对文化适应进行扩展操作化，以解决“移民悖论”，即更多地接触接受文化背景的国际移民报告出较差的心理和身体健康结果。我们讨论了种族、文化相似性和歧视在文化适应过程中的作用，为接受文化背景的操作定义，并呼吁开展关于接受文化背景在文化适应过程中所扮演角色的研究。本文提出的文化适应新视角旨在更全面地理解复杂的文化适应过程及其与情境和个体功能的关系。
