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Acculturation Orientations and Social Relations Between Immigrant and Host Community Members in California

Richard Y. Bourhis

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, bourhis.richard{at}uqam.ca

Geneviève Barrette

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Shaha El-Geledi

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Ronald Schmidt, sr

California State University, Long Beach

This study, based on the Interactive Acculturation Model, investigates the acculturation orientations of undergraduates attending a multicultural university in Los Angeles County. European Americans (n = 178), African Americans (n = 88), Asian immigrants (n = 165), and Hispanic immigrants (n = 109) participated in the questionnaire study. Results show that individualism and integrationism are the acculturation orientations preferred by European American, African American, and Asian immigrants. Hispanic immigrants also prefer individualism. Assimilationism, segregationism, and exclusionism are least endorsed by host community members. Immigrants moderately endorse separatism and weakly endorse assimilationism and marginalization. The social psychological profile of each acculturation orientation revealed that integrationism and individualism was associated with harmonious relational outcomes, whereas assimilationism, segregationism, separatism, and exclusionism were associated with problematic and conflictual intergroup relations.

Key Words: acculturation • immigrant • host community • interactive acculturation model • European Americans • African Americans • Asian immigrants • Hispanic immigrants

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 3, 443-467 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108330988
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