عنوان

The impact of acculturation, acculturative stress, and ethnic identity on second-generation Iranian Americans

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انگلیسی

The impact of acculturation, acculturative stress, and ethnic identity on second-generation Iranian Americans

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Sahar Dorani

Prado, Alicia del

The Wright Institute

2014

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-63262-0

Psy.D.

The Wright Institute

2014

With the majority of immigrants having left Iran for the United States following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the population of Iranians currently living in the United States includes immigrants and second-generation Iranian Americans. Iranian American individuals may present with mental health concerns related to stress experienced during acculturation, which also could be mitigated by a strong ethnic identity or particular type of acculturation. This quantitative study examines how acculturation, acculturative stress, and ethnic identity impact the psychological well-being of second-generation Iranian Americans. One hundred second-generation Iranian Americans (18-51 years old) completed measures addressing questions pertaining to their experience of acculturation and ethnic identity. Participants in this study used a variety of terms to describe their ethnic identity, such as 'Iranian', 'Persian', 'Iranian American', 'Persian American', 'Jewish', 'American', `Bicultural', and 'Multicultural'. The following 5 hypotheses were investigated: (H₁) Level of acculturation (cultural resistance and cultural incorporation), acculturative stress, and ethnic identity significantly predicted psychological well-being. (H₂) Second-generation Iranian Americans identifying as Muslim reported experiencing higher levels of acculturative stress. ( H₃) Participants who reported more cultural resistance had lower levels of psychological well-being than those who reported cultural incorporation. (H₄) Women reported more cultural resistance, less cultural incorporation, and lower levels of psychological well-being than men. (H₅) The more education participants had, the less cultural resistance they reported. Participants filled out survey measures online and the measures included the Cultural Life Style Inventory (CLSI; Mendoza, 1989), the Societal, Academic, Familial, and Environmental scale (SAFE; Mena et al., 1987), the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure-Revised (MEIM-R; Phinney, 1992), and the Duke Health Profile (the DUKE; Parkerson, 1989). In examining the impact of religion on participants' level of acculturation, the Muslim religious group experienced the most cultural resistance (mean difference = .11, p< .05). When looking at predictors of mental health symptoms, acculturative stress and gender were the strongest predictors of anxiety.

Behavioral psychology; Psychology; Clinical psychology

Psychology;Acculturation;Acculturative Stress;Cultural Identity;Ethnic Identity;Iranian;Iranian American

Greer, Rodney James

Prado, Alicia del

The Wright Institute

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