The Process of Acculturation and Basic Goals: Testing a Multidimensional Individual Difference Acculturation Model with Iranian Immigrants in Canada
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Abstract
Trois des objectifs de base des immigrants dans les sociétés multiculturelles (la sauvegarde de l’heritage culturel, l’insertion dans la société d’acceuil et la préservation de la santé physique et psychologique) ont été retenus comme variables dépendantes dans l’élaboration d’un modèle portant sur les différences individuelles du processus d’acculturation. Les trois prédicteurs composites du modèle furent: 1. L’adaptation psychosociale englobant le bien‐être psychologique, le compétence biculturelle et le soutien social perçu de l’outgroup; 2. Le rattachement à la famille et à la culture englobant l’allocentrisme familial, l’identité ethnique et le soutien perçu de l’ingroup; 3. L’expérience des conflits quotidiens relevant ou non de l’acculturation. On a aussi pris en considération la fonction des deux modes d’acculturation que sont la différenciation et l’assimilation. Ce sont 81 iraniennes et 85 iraniens immigrés au Canada qui ont contribuéà cette recherche; leur âge médian était de 34 ans et leur temps de séjour médian au Canada de sept ans. La validité du modèle a été mise à l’épreuve grâce au Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). L’adaptation psychosociale est en relation directe avec le comportement de l’outgroup (qui représente le contact avec la culture d’accueil) et la détresse psychosomatique. Le rattachement à la famille et à la culture est en relation directe avec le comportement de l’ingroup, et les conflits quotidiens sont reliés à la détresse psychosomatique. En outre, chacun de ces prédicteurs est associé avec chacun des deux types d’acculturation. En retour, ces modes d’acculturation prédisent les variables dépendantes comportementales. On examine enfin les retombées de ce modèle sur des recherches futures. Three of the basic goals of immigrants in multicultural societies—maintenance of heritage culture, participation in the host society, and maintenance of psychological and physical health—were examined as outcome variables in a proposed individual difference model of the acculturation process. The three composite predictor variables in the model were psychosocial adjustment, consisting of psychological well‐being, bicultural competence, and perceived outgroup social support; connectedness to family and culture, consisting of family allocentrism, ethnic identity, and perceived ingroup support; and the experience of acculturation‐specific and non‐specific daily hassles. The roles of separation and assimilation modes of acculturation were also examined. The research participants were 85 male and 81 female Iranian immigrants to Canada. Their median age was 34 years; their median length of residence in Canada was seven years. The viability of the model was supported through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Psychosocial adjustment was directly related to outgroup behavior (reflecting contact with the host culture) and to psychophysical distress. Connectedness to family and culture was directly related to ingroup behavior, and daily hassles were directly related to psychophysical distress. Furthermore, each of these predictor variables was associated with either or both modes of acculturation. In turn, these modes of acculturation predicted the outcome behavior variables. Implications of the model for further research are discussed.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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