Acculturation attitudes, need for cognitive closure, and adaptation of immigrants.
The author validated Berry's model of acculturation (J. W. Berry, 1990a, 1990b, 1991; J. W. Berry, U. Kim, S. Power, M. Young, & M. Bujaki, 1989) and examined the relation between acculturation attitudes and sociocultural and psychological adaptation among Croatian and Polish immigrants to Italy, 2 groups whose cultures are not very different from the Italian culture. Moreover, the author investigated the relation between the need for cognitive closure (NCC; M. D. Webster & A. W. Kruglanski, 1994) and psychological and sociocultural adaptation. The participants completed a questionnaire including measures of sociocultural adaptation, psychological adaptation, social relationships, acculturation attitudes, and NCC. The results of a multivariate analysis of variance revealed main effects of acculturation strategies for both forms of adaptation and a main effect of NCC for psychological adaptation. The Croatian and Polish immigrants differed in the level of sociocultural adaptation but not in the level of psychological adaptation.
Kosic
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Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. anna.kosic@uniromal.it
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003071:Cognition; D017523:Croatia / Q000208:ethnology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000208:ethnology; D012924:Social Conditions