Dictionary definition: acculturation

Article: Acculturation, Parent-Adolescent Conflict, and Adolescent ...
Family Process;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...We tested an acculturation model in a community sample of Mexican ... between parents and adolescents in acculturation would be associated with parent ... found that families who exhibited an acculturation gap were not more likely to report ...

Article: Acculturation
Encyclopedia of Public Health;      700+ words ...ACCULTURATION Acculturation is the process whereby the attitudes and/or behaviors of people ... are modified as a result of contact with a different culture. Acculturation implies a mutual influence in which elements of two cultures mingle ...

Article: ACCULTURATION AMONG LATINO YOUTH AND THE RISK FOR ...
Journal of Drug Issues;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... paper is to provide an overview of the acculturation literature with a specific focus on exploring acculturation as a concept as well as examining ... theoretical models and instruments assessing acculturation over the past two decades is provided ...

Article: Acculturation of Vietnamese Students Living in or Away ...
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... A t-test comparison of the acculturation levels of Vietnamese students ... communities found higher overall acculturation for the former than for the ... difference in the Value dimension of acculturation. Age and length of residency ...

Article: Acculturation and an ESL program: a service learning ...
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Utilizing John Berry's (2001) theory of acculturation, the author evaluates the workings ... about different cultures and issues of acculturation and immigration, and (c) learn about ... this article focuses on how issues of acculturation impact program development, and the ...

Article: Acculturation and the sexual and reproductive health of ...
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 5) These two studies did not explicitly discuss underlying acculturation processes, but other sexual and reproductive health studies have implicated acculturation. Acculturation has been viewed as a linear progression, whereby immigrants ...

Article: Acculturation attitudes, perceived attitudes of the ...
The Journal of Social Psychology;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Israeli university as a function of their acculturation attitudes (Berry, 1990), that is ... tend to develop different patterns of acculturation attitudes, which would be associated ... contingent on the congruence between the acculturation attitudes preferred by the individual ...