Effect of acculturation on life satisfaction among aging Chinese immigrants in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Acculturation is significant to the adaptation and adjustment of immigrants and ethno-minority groups.Although the Chinese are the second largest visible minority group in Canada, research on aging Chinese immigrants is lacking.This study examines the effect of acculturation variables on life satisfaction among aging Chinese immigrants in Canada.Life satisfaction was measured by a single-item global measure.Based on the survey data obtained from 2214 immigrant 55 years and older in seven cities, hypotheses related to the effect of acculturation variables on life satisfaction were not supported.Adherence to Chinese culture was the only acculturation variable significantly related to a higher level of life satisfaction.The findings indicate the importance of incorporating Chinese cultural values and beliefs in working with aging Chinese immigrants.Culturally appropriate practice to address needs related to finance, and mental health of this client group is also needed.I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Daniel Lai, for his generosity in sharing with me his data set, for his advice, guidance, and support throughout this research study, and also
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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