Basic values as a motivational framework relating individual values with acculturation strategies among Arab immigrants and refugees across different settlement contexts

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Zarina Lepshokova¹  Dmitry Grigoryev¹  John W. Berry²  Momin Alnunu³  Hisham M. Abu-Rayya⁴ 

[1] Center for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russia;Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada;Psychology Program, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar;School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;

关键词: acculturation strategies;    individual values;    immigrants;    refugees;    adaptation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1094193

 received in 2022-11-09, accepted in 2023-05-02,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

There is a lack of systematic acculturation research on the motivations underpinning the behavior of migrants, which could explain how they acculturate and adapt to their new country of residence. This paper examines the link between values, using the Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values, and acculturation strategies among Arab immigrant and refugee groups across different settlement contexts. The results of Study 1 (Arab immigrants; N = 456) showed, as hypothesized, positive links between strategies and values: the integration strategy with conservation, social focus, self-protection, and self-transcendence values; assimilation with openness to change, personal focus, and growth values; and separation with conservation, social focus, and self-protection. These findings were generally repeated in Study 2 (Syrian refugees; N = 415) except that integration was not associated with self-transcendence and that assimilation was positively linked to self-enhancement instead of openness to change. Our analyses indicated that acculturation preferences are mainly related to motivational values, rather than to different settlement contexts in both samples; however, assimilation seems to be more associated to context than values among the refugee sample. Implications of the findings to the acculturation literature are discussed.

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