RESEARCH ARTICLE
Acculturation Process and Life Domains: Different Perceptions of Native and Immigrant Adults in Italy
Nadia Rania1, *, Stefania Rebora1, Laura Migliorini1, Maria Soledad Navas2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 12
First Page: 55
Last Page: 65
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-12-55
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101912010055
Article History:
Received Date: 29/10/2018Revision Received Date: 12/01/2019
Acceptance Date: 10/02/2019
Electronic publication date: 28/02/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Acculturation process has taken up a relevant place in cross-cultural psychology by demonstrating the strong relationships between cultural context and individual behavioral development.
Aim:
The purpose of this study is to analyse acculturation strategies and attitudes in different life domains of native and immigrant adults living in Italy, following the Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM).
Methods:
The participants were 250 Italian native and 100 immigrant adults who completed a questionnaire with items to measure their acculturation strategies (real plane) and attitudes (ideal plane), in general and related to different life domains (peripheral and central).
Results:
Results revealed that the acculturation attitude of immigrants is integration, whereas Italians prefer their assimilation.
Conclusion:
However, when different life domains are taken into account, immigrants claim to put in practice and prefer integration in most of the domains, whereas Italians perceive immigrants are separated but they prefer their assimilation or integration, depending on the specific domain.
