TY - JOUR
T1 - Factors affecting immigrants' acculturation intentions
T2 - A theoretical model and its assessment among adolescent immigrants from Russia and Ukraine in Israel
AU - Tartakovsky, Eugene
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partly supported by a grant from the Chief Scientist's Office at the Israeli Education Ministry . The author thanks the psychologists, social workers, and counselors working in the Na’ale program in Israel, the psychologists cooperating with the Na’ale program in Russia and Ukraine, and the Na’ale administration for their help in conducting the study. The author is grateful to the adolescents who participated in this study.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - In this study, a new acculturation intentions model (AIM) was formulated to help explain immigrants' preferences for different acculturation strategies and their further emigration intentions, i.e. their plans to either remain in the host country, return to their country of origin, or emigrate to a third country. The AIM applies the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991) to the case of immigration. In the present study, the AIM was assessed among high-school adolescents who immigrated from Russia and Ukraine to Israel as part of an educational program (n=151). The adolescents completed questionnaires twice: half a year before and three years after their immigration. In accordance with the theoretical model, attitudes towards the country of origin and the host country and perceived environmental constraints (including perceived discrimination as well as perceived social support from parents, peers, and teachers) affected the immigrants' acculturation intentions. In contrast with what was hypothesized in this study, immigrants' psychological resources were not related to their acculturation intentions. The significance of these findings for both the immigrants and the host society are discussed.
AB - In this study, a new acculturation intentions model (AIM) was formulated to help explain immigrants' preferences for different acculturation strategies and their further emigration intentions, i.e. their plans to either remain in the host country, return to their country of origin, or emigrate to a third country. The AIM applies the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991) to the case of immigration. In the present study, the AIM was assessed among high-school adolescents who immigrated from Russia and Ukraine to Israel as part of an educational program (n=151). The adolescents completed questionnaires twice: half a year before and three years after their immigration. In accordance with the theoretical model, attitudes towards the country of origin and the host country and perceived environmental constraints (including perceived discrimination as well as perceived social support from parents, peers, and teachers) affected the immigrants' acculturation intentions. In contrast with what was hypothesized in this study, immigrants' psychological resources were not related to their acculturation intentions. The significance of these findings for both the immigrants and the host society are discussed.
KW - Acculturation strategies
KW - Adolescent immigrants
KW - Attitudes towards a country
KW - Further emigration intentions
KW - Israel
KW - Perceived discrimination
KW - Perceived social support
KW - Russia
KW - The acculturation intentions model (AIM)
KW - The theory of planned behavior
KW - Ukraine
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.003
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AN - SCOPUS:84857453953
SN - 0147-1767
VL - 36
SP - 83
EP - 99
JO - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
JF - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
IS - 1
ER -