Dryjanska Laura
Istituto Diplomatico Internazionale, Rome, Italy.
Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 May 4;14:1173915. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1173915. eCollection 2023.
Existing literature has highlighted the phenomenon of academic migrants leaving Italy for the United States with the hope of finding institutions that offer more opportunities for growth and recognition based on merit, as opposed to corruption, nepotism, and excessive bureaucracy. Likely, these may be the expectations of Italian academic migrants, who seem to be thriving and flourishing in their careers. This paper discusses proculturation of academic migrants from Italy to the United States, in the light of their expectations related to self-concept as well as social representations of North American university instructors from transnational families.
In this study, 173 participants volunteered to provide information in an online survey that included their demographic profile, family situation, language ability, recalled pre-migration expectations and preparations, satisfaction with life, self-perceived stress, self-rated health, free responses to questions about major successes, challenges, and goals, as well as self-identification.
The results have shown that participants were indeed thriving in their careers and lives (majority scored high in satisfaction with life, health, realistic expectations and helpful per-migration preparations, while low in stress, also indicating work-related accomplishments and successes), but somewhat struggled with proculturation-related issues, frequently mentioned among major challenges.
现有文献强调了学术移民离开意大利前往美国的现象，他们希望找到能基于功绩而非腐败、任人唯亲和过度官僚主义提供更多成长和认可机会的机构。很可能，这些就是意大利学术移民的期望，他们似乎在职业生涯中蓬勃发展。本文根据学术移民与自我概念相关的期望以及来自跨国家庭的北美大学教师的社会表征，探讨从意大利到美国的学术移民的文化适应过程。
在本研究中，173名参与者自愿在在线调查中提供信息，调查内容包括他们的人口统计学特征、家庭状况、语言能力、回忆的移民前期望和准备情况、生活满意度、自我感知的压力、自评健康状况、对关于主要成功、挑战和目标问题的自由回答，以及自我认同。
结果表明，参与者在职业和生活中确实蓬勃发展（大多数人在生活满意度、健康、现实期望和有益的移民前准备方面得分较高，而压力得分较低，这也表明了与工作相关的成就和成功），但在与文化适应相关的问题上有些挣扎，这些问题在主要挑战中经常被提及。
