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Contextual influences on acculturation processes: The roles of family, community and society

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This paper outlined the major approaches to the psychological study of acculturation, drawing particular attention to the importance of context, and highlighted three significant contexts: family, ethnic community, and society/nation.
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The paper outlines the major approaches to the psychological study of acculturation, drawing particular attention to the importance of context. Three significant contexts are highlighted: family, ethnic community, and society/nation. New perspectives from our evolving program of acculturation research are introduced to illustrate contextual influences on acculturation, and future directions for empirical work are recommended.

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An ecological approach to psychological adjustment: A field survey among refugees in Germany

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From hometown to the host city? Migrants' identity transition in urban China

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The Influence of Family Climate on Stress and Adaptation for Muslim Immigrant Young Adults in Two Western Countries

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Greek dance and everyday nationalism in contemporary Greece

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how dance as an everyday lived experience during community events contributes to constructing national identities, and argue that while folk dance acts as a uniting device amongst members of national communities, its practice of everyday nationalism can also be transformed into a political ritual that accentuates differences and projects chauvinism and extreme nationalism with a potential for conflict.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.

TL;DR: Theories of the self from both psychology and anthropology are integrated to define in detail the difference between a construal of self as independent and a construpal of the Self as interdependent as discussed by the authors, and these divergent construals should have specific consequences for cognition, emotion, and motivation.
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The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.

TL;DR: Existing evidence supports the hypothesis that the need to belong is a powerful, fundamental, and extremely pervasive motivation, and people form social attachments readily under most conditions and resist the dissolution of existing bonds.
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Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for cross-cultural psychology has been proposed, and some general findings and conclusions based on a sample of empirical studies have been presented, with a consideration of the social and psychological costs and benefits of adopting a pluralist and integrationist orientation to these issues.
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