A motivational framework of acculturation

Vishkin, Allon; Horenczyk, Gabriel; Bloom, Pazit Ben‐Nun

doi:10.1002/brb3.2267

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“…While many subfields in psychology investigate fundamentally motivational processes, research has only recently distinguished between motivations and the means for attaining them. Distinguishing between motivations and means for attaining them has proven fruitful in other domains concerned with motivational processes, including the study of behavioral intentions (Ajzen & Kruglanski, 2019), interpersonal processes (Orehek & Forest, 2016), emotion regulation (Vishkin et al., 2020), and acculturation (Vishkin et al., 2021). As new insights are gleaned regarding the properties of goal constructs in general, these insights may be further integrated into our understanding of the psychology of religion in particular.…”

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A motivational framework of religion: Tying together the why and the how of religion

Vishkin

Bloom

Arıkan

et al. 2022

Euro J Social Psych

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Two lines of research in the psychology of religion have developed independently of each other: why people are religious and how they are religious. Leveraging theories of goal constructs, we propose that these two lines of research are connected, such that religious expressions are the manifestation of religious motivations. In Part I, we build and test a model of relations between religious motivations and religious expressions using data from Christians in the United Kingdom (Study 1; N = 418) and Jews in Israel (Study 2; N = 505). In Part II, we demonstrate the utility of the model by showing how relations between religiosity and political ideology can be understood by this integrated model. We discuss how this model advances research on the psychology of religion beyond the refinement of typologies and how it can be used to model associations between religiosity and other constructs.

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A motivational framework of religion: Tying together the why and the how of religion

Vishkin

Bloom

Arıkan

et al. 2022

Euro J Social Psych

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“…The needs for interactions, to be understood, for purpose, and for identity continuity are not necessarily expected by the dominant group but are intrinsic and fundamental to the health and functioning of the newcomers during the acculturation process (e.g., Anzaldúa, 1987). As deeply internal aspects of the human experience, motivations often also have the potential of fundamentally organizing the manner in which a migrant approaches a new cultural context (Kashima, 2014;Vishkin et al, 2021). Yet, despite these functional and interconnected properties, few of the past reviews have examined motivation as a distinct aspect of psychological acculturation within the literature or the concept.…”

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The Migration Experience: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Scoping Review of Psychological Acculturation

Kreienkamp,

Bringmann,

Engler

et al. 2023

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Academic Abstract One of the key challenges to researching psychological acculturation is the immense heterogeneity in theories and measures. These inconsistencies make it difficult to compare past literature, hinder straightforward measurement selections, and stifle theoretical integration. To structure acculturation, we propose to utilize the four basic aspects of human experiences (wanting, feeling, thinking, and doing) as a conceptual framework. We use this framework to build a theory-driven assessment of past theoretical (final N = 92), psychometric (final N = 233), and empirical literature (final N = 530). We find that the framework allows us to examine and compare past conceptualizations. For example, empirical works have understudied the more internal aspects of acculturation (i.e., motivations and feelings) compared with theoretical works. We, then, discuss the framework’s novel insights including its temporal resolution, its comprehensive and cross-cultural structure, and how the framework can aid transparent and functional theories, studies, and interventions going forward. Public Abstract This systematic scoping review indicates that the concept of psychological acculturation can be structured in terms of affect (e.g., feeling at home), behavior (e.g., language use), cognition (e.g., ethnic identification), and desire (e.g., independence wish). We find that the framework is useful in structuring past research and helps with new predictions and interventions. We, for example, find a crucial disconnect between theory and practice, which will need to be resolved in the future.

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“…Less attention, however, has been paid to the role that individual values play in the acculturation of immigrants and their adaptation (e.g., Roccas et al, 2000 ; Güngör, 2007 ; Sapienza et al, 2010 ; Recker et al, 2018 ; Vishkin et al, 2021 ; Hanel et al, 2022 ). We consider that individual values are important features of individuals that exist prior to acculturation, which motivates us to examine them in relation to their acculturation strategies.…”

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“… Vishkin et al’s (2021) utilizes theories of goal constructs and thus proposes a differentiation between motivations underlying acculturation and means to actualize them, which seems also problematic. Driven by theories of goal constructs, which emphasizes the translation of goals into actions, they broke down acculturation strategies into acculturation motivation (i.e., the extent that an immigrant desires to maintain/adopt their heritage/host culture) and acculturation actions (i.e., behaviors such as language and contact) that satisfy the corresponding acculturation motivation.…”

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“…Given the limitations of the theoretical development of Recker et al’s (2018) and Vishkin et al’s (2021) approaches to study acculturation motivations, the present study follows a distinct line of classic research (e.g., Sapienza et al, 2010 ; Hanel et al, 2022 ) that builds on the strong theoretical and empirical foundations of Schwartz’s (1992 , 2012) Theory of Basic Individual Values in an attempt to explore the motivations underlying acculturation strategy preferences among immigrants and refugees.…”

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Basic values as a motivational framework relating individual values with acculturation strategies among Arab immigrants and refugees across different settlement contexts

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There is a lack of systematic acculturation research on the motivations underpinning the behavior of migrants, which could explain how they acculturate and adapt to their new country of residence. This paper examines the link between values, using the Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values, and acculturation strategies among Arab immigrant and refugee groups across different settlement contexts. The results of Study 1 (Arab immigrants; N = 456) showed, as hypothesized, positive links between strategies and values: the integration strategy with conservation, social focus, self-protection, and self-transcendence values; assimilation with openness to change, personal focus, and growth values; and separation with conservation, social focus, and self-protection. These findings were generally repeated in Study 2 (Syrian refugees; N = 415) except that integration was not associated with self-transcendence and that assimilation was positively linked to self-enhancement instead of openness to change. Our analyses indicated that acculturation preferences are mainly related to motivational values, rather than to different settlement contexts in both samples; however, assimilation seems to be more associated to context than values among the refugee sample. Implications of the findings to the acculturation literature are discussed.

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A motivational framework of acculturation

Cited by 6 publications

References 63 publications

A motivational framework of religion: Tying together the why and the how of religion

A motivational framework of religion: Tying together the why and the how of religion

The Migration Experience: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Scoping Review of Psychological Acculturation

Basic values as a motivational framework relating individual values with acculturation strategies among Arab immigrants and refugees across different settlement contexts

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