Ma Zhihao, Xia Yiwei
Computational Communication Collaboratory, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
School of Law, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, 611130, China.
Soc Sci Res. 2021 Jan;93:102487. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102487. Epub 2020 Oct 29.
Berry's bidimensional acculturation model categorizes acculturation status (integration, assimilation, separation, marginalization) by preference toward host and origin cultures. According to Berry's theory, different acculturation strategies yield different health outcomes, and age at migration moderates the relationship between acculturation and health outcome. Previous research has applied this model to understand acculturation's influence on international migrants' health outcomes, but rarely for internal migrants. This research examines these relationships using a national survey on Chinese internal migrants. Using propensity score weighting, the results align with previous findings that integration strategy-using migrants reported optimal health status, separation/assimilation strategy-using migrants reported suboptimal health, and marginalization strategy-using migrants reported the worst health, suggesting the model can explain health disparities among internal migrants. Moreover, older age at migration deteriorates health outcomes and moderates health disparities among migrants employing different acculturation strategies. However, age at migration's moderating effect is significant only among inter-provincial migrants. Embracing the host society inhibits health deterioration among inter-provincial migrants with older age at migration, whereas rejecting or embracing both societies facilitates health deterioration among intra-provincial migrants.
贝里的二维文化适应模型根据对东道国文化和原文化的偏好对文化适应状态（融合、同化、分离、边缘化）进行分类。根据贝里的理论，不同的文化适应策略会产生不同的健康结果，移民年龄会调节文化适应与健康结果之间的关系。以往的研究应用该模型来理解文化适应对国际移民健康结果的影响，但很少用于国内移民。本研究使用一项针对中国国内移民的全国性调查来检验这些关系。通过倾向得分加权，结果与之前的研究结果一致，即采用融合策略的移民报告的健康状况最佳，采用分离/同化策略的移民报告的健康状况次优，采用边缘化策略的移民报告的健康状况最差，这表明该模型可以解释国内移民之间的健康差异。此外，移民年龄越大，健康结果越差，并且会调节采用不同文化适应策略的移民之间的健康差异。然而，移民年龄的调节作用仅在省际移民中显著。融入东道社会可抑制移民年龄较大的省际移民的健康恶化，而排斥或同时融入两个社会则会促进省内移民的健康恶化。
