Assessing attitudes towards mutual acculturation in multicultural schools: Conceptualisation and validation of a four-dimensional mutual acculturation attitudes scale

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.009
• Publication Date: 2021-08-28T21:13:58Z
• Authors: Petra Sidler; Wassilis Kassis; Elena Makarova; Clarissa Janousch
• Keywords: Acculturation

Assessment of acculturation attitudes usually has focused on the importance two dimensions: first, immigrants' maintenance cultural heritage and, second, adoption majority culture. Because is a reciprocal interaction, we extended bidimensional scale to four dimensions assess mutual acculturation. Given social context for and schools as crucial immigrant pupils' acculturation, extension was validated within school. We hypothesised that are held not only towards pupils but also native schools' responsibility support intercultural contact. The study sample comprised 364 secondary school in Swiss multicultural schools. Using exploratory structural equation modelling, distinct attitudes: (a) culture (b) dominant (c) acquiring knowledge (d) enabling conclude proposed four-dimensional valid tool assessing