title: Converging identities: dimensions of acculturation and personal identity status among immigrant college students.
abstract: The present study was designed to ascertain the extent to which dimensions of acculturation would differ across personal identity statuses in a sample of 2,411 first- and second-generation, immigrant, college-attending emerging adults. Participants from 30 colleges and universities around the United States completed measures of personal identity processes, as well as of heritage and American cultural practices, values, and identifications. Cluster-analytic procedures were used to classify participants into personal identity statuses based on the personal identity processes. Results indicated that, across ethnic groups, individuals in the achieved and searching moratorium statuses reported the greatest endorsement of heritage and American cultural practices, values, and identifications; and individuals in the carefree diffusion status reported the lowest endorsement of all the cultural variables under study. These results are discussed in terms of the convergence between personal identity and cultural identity processes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, FL 33136, USA. SSchwartz@med.miami.edu
authors.forename: Seth J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: Su Yeong
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Susan Krauss
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Whitbourne
authors.forename: Byron L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Zamboanga
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Weisskirch
authors.forename: Larry F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Forthun
authors.forename: Alexander T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Vazsonyi
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Beyers
authors.forename: Koen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Luyckx
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult