Toward a Concept of a Migrant Personality

By Bonka Boneva, Irene Hanson Frieze. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The role of self-determined motivation and goals for study abroad in the adaptation of international students. (2007, background): “Another approach aimed to apply McClelland’s three-motive model of human motivation (based on the motives for achievement, power, and affiliation) to the situation of international migration (Boneva & Frieze, 2001; Frieze et al., 2004).”
Measuring Cultural Competencies: The Development and Validation of a Revised Measure of Sociocultural Adaptation (2017, background): “…our research shows that the effects of individual differences on migration intentions and behaviors go beyond personality and motivation (Amit & Riss, 2014; 1498 Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 48(10) Boneva & Frieze, 2001; Tabor et al., 2015a, 2015b) to also include skills and abilities.”
Skilled migrants' career capital as a source of competitive advantage: implications for strategic HRM (2015, background): “…researchers have also gone as far as to suggest that there may exist a migrant personality type; these would be individuals more likely to leave their home country in search of better opportunities, and they have higher achievement and power motivation (Boneva & Frieze, 2001; Frieze et al., 2006).”
The happiness of international migrants: A review of research findings (2015, background): “tend to become more extrinsically oriented, whereas intrinsically oriented people are typically happier (Boneva and Frieze 2001).”
Biculturalism and Adjustment (2013, background): “Furthermore, it is possible that immigrants have different personalities from nonimmigrants (e.g., stronger work orientation, higher achievement motivation, higher power motivation; Boneva & Frieze, 2001).”
Personality predicts migration within and between U.S. states (2009, background): “Supporting this hypothesis, Boneva et al. (1998) found that high affiliation motive (related to high agreeableness) correlated with low desire to move to another country in a sample of Albanian youth (see also Boneva & Frieze, 2001; Kan, 2007).”