TY - JOUR
T1 - Converging identities
T2 - Dimensions of acculturation and personal identity status among immigrant college students
AU - Schwartz, Seth J.
AU - Kim, Su Yeong
AU - Whitbourne, Susan Krauss
AU - Zamboanga, Byron L.
AU - Weisskirch, Robert S.
AU - Forthun, Larry F.
AU - Vazsonyi, Alexander T.
AU - Beyers, Wim
AU - Luyckx, Koen
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Acculturation
KW - Cultural identity
KW - Identity status
KW - Immigrant
KW - Personal identity
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U2 - 10.1037/a0030753
DO - 10.1037/a0030753
M3 - Article
C2 - 23148900
AN - SCOPUS:84877332568
SN - 1099-9809
VL - 19
SP - 155
EP - 165
JO - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
JF - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
IS - 2
ER -