Structure of Acculturation Attitudes and their Relationships with Personality and Psychological Adaptation: A Study with Immigrant and National Samples in Germany

This contribution deals with the structure of acculturation attitudes and their relationship with personality dimensions and psychological adaptation. Based on two German samples—an immigrant and a national one— evidence suggests that four independent factors are underlying acculturation styles as assessed with the Acculturation Attitudes Styles (AAS). Integration, Assimilation, Separation, and Marginalization are independent, lowly correlated constructs and represent distinct modes of coping with acculturation demands. Analyses also demonstrate that each acculturation factor shows a specific pattern of personality characteristics, including basic temperament dimensions, cognitive styles, coping, and components of emotional intelligence. Finally, the four acculturation styles can predict psychological adaptation such as wellbeing, happiness, etc. Integration is the most adaptive acculturation strategy, whereas Separation and Marginalization most strongly predict negative outcomes.

这项研究涉及文化适应态度的结构及其与人格维度和心理适应的关系。基于两个德国样本——一个移民样本和一个本国样本——有证据表明，用文化适应态度风格量表（AAS）评估时，文化适应风格有四个独立的因素。融合、同化、分离和边缘化是相互独立、相关性较低的构念，代表了应对文化适应需求的不同模式。分析还表明，每个文化适应因素都呈现出一种特定的人格特征模式，包括基本的气质维度、认知风格、应对方式以及情商的组成部分。最后，这四种文化适应风格能够预测心理适应情况，比如幸福感、快乐感等。融合是最具适应性的文化适应策略，而分离和边缘化对负面结果的预测性最强。