Adolescents' mutual acculturation attitudes and their association with national self-identification in three Swiss cantons

• DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.953914
• Publication Date: 2023-06-21T09:14:31Z
• Authors: Petra Sidler
• Keywords: Acculturation; Social distance

Acculturation is a mutual process, meaning that members of minority as well majority groups acculturate and thus experience cultural psychological changes when having intercultural contact. This study assessed acculturation attitudes in the school context through four-dimensional measurement examining toward (1) migration background students' heritage culture maintenance their (2) dominant adoption, (3) knowledge acquisition, (4) schools' contact endorsement. are commonly analyzed perspectives; however, ways which researchers categorize group can differ significantly from how those self-identify. matters particularly for adolescents because they explore identities belongings. So far, adolescents' have not been studied relation to national self-identification measures. The current addressed this research gap by analyzing strongly self-identify being Swiss, background, interaction two. sample consisted 319 public secondary schools three German-speaking cantons Switzerland (45% female, Mage = 13.60 years, range 12-16). Latent profile analyses resulted distinct profiles. first integration (n 147, 46%), where expected integrate. second multiculturalism 137, 43%), with slightly lower expectations all dimensions. third distancing 33, 10%), places low on schools. Through an analysis variance multiple logistic regression, were found identify stronger compared profile. Thus, students separation non-involvement more likely than expectations.