Acculturation preferences of majority and minority adolescents in Germany in the context of society and family

By I. Pfafferott, Rupert Brown. 2006

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Four hundred and fifteen adolescents (134 German majority and 281 minority members) completed a questionnaire which measured attitudes towards acculturation, life satisfaction and intergroup relation variables. German majority members preferred integration followed by assimilation (according to Berry's taxonomy), while minority members had a clear preference for integration. Integration was more strongly associated with favourable intergroup relations and, in the case of minority members, life satisfaction, than the other acculturation orientations. Furthermore the study showed that discrepancies between own acculturation attitudes and perceived attitudes of the other group may influence life satisfaction and intergroup attitudes. Perceived acculturation preferences of the respondents parents were also examined. German majority adolescents perceived their parents attitudes as more favourable to exclusion than their own, and minority members perceived their parents attitudes as leaning more towards separation than their own. In the majority sample, these discrepancies were not related to any of the outcome variables, but in the minority sample they influenced life satisfaction, perceived quality of intergroup relations, and tolerance.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Contextual influences on acculturation processes: The roles of family, community and society (2010, background): “Conversely, the desire for traditional culture maintenance and endorsement of separation has been found to be signifi cantly higher in immigrant samples with preferences for integration or separation, depending on public-private domain distinctions (Arends-Toth & Van de Vijver, 2003; Piontkowski, Fl”
The Dynamics of Acculturation: An Intergroup Perspective (2011, background): “Further converging evidence for the predictive value of the discrepancy definition of fit was obtained by Pfafferott and Brown (2006).”
Included but Invisible? Subtle Bias, Common Identity, and the Darker Side of “We” (2016, background): “…(Bourhis, Montreuil, Barrette, & Montaruli 2009), immigrants' adjustment is better and intergroup relations less strained when acculturation ideologies of members of the host society and of immigrants converge (see also Plaut, Thomas, & Goren, 2009; Pfafferott & Brown, 2006; Zagefka & Brown, 2002).”