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Toward a more Complex Understanding of Acculturation and Adjustment
Cultural Involvements and Psychosocial Functioning in Vietnamese Youth
Huong H. Nguyen
Michigan State University
Lawrence A. Messé
Michigan State University
Gary E. Stollak
Michigan State University
This study examined possible links between acculturation and adjustment in 182 Vietnamese youths living in a primarily Anglo-American community. Extending past work, the present research employed a more complex perspective on both acculturation—cast as separate levels of involvement in the native and host cultures—and adjustment—measured across personal (distress, depression, self-esteem), interpersonal (family relationships), and achievement (school grade point average) domains. Results indicated that, as expected, involvement in the U.S. culture predicted positive functioning across all three adjustment domains, and involvement in the Vietnamese culture predicted positive family relationships. Contrary to hypotheses, involvement in the Vietnamese culture related negatively to personal adjustment (i.e., distress). These findings are discussed in terms of the apparent complexities of the acculturation-adjustment link, particularly with regard to the utility of viewing acculturation from a two-dimensional framework and the need to consider the type of adjustment indices examined and the social contexts in which ethnic groups reside.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 1,
5-31 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022199030001001
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