Cultural Identity Configurations: A Latent Profile Analysis of Ethnic/Racial and U.S. Identity Process and Content

Meca, Alan; Cruz, Bethany; Veniegas, Taryn K.; Allison, Kelsie K.; Santibanez, Lauren; Gonzales‐Backen, Melinda A.

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“…Given that acculturation extends across multiple domains ( 1 ), future research should use measures of heritage and U.S. identification and values to better capture nuances in cultural orientations. That said, it is worth noting past research has not always consistently identified assimilated ( 16 , 17 , 19 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 ) or separated ( 16 , 19 , 63 ) profiles among adult populations. As a whole, in contrast to results among adolescents and young adults ( 35 ), these findings may indicate decreased variability in cultural orientation among adults.…”

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“…Future work will need to address the extent to which detached orientations may reflect low behavioral activation system ( 68 ) sensitivity or anhedonia and low social approach ( 69 , 70 , 71 ), resulting in reduced effort to obtain rewards and/or low sensitivity to rewards. Such links would represent significant progress in establishing clinical phenotypes of acculturation that have previously been related to outcomes such as depression ( 17 , 19 ), substance use ( 67 , 72 ), and suicide risk ( 66 ).…”

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“…Although specific configurations have been observed inconsistently across studies, biculturalism has been consistently identified and characterized as the most adaptive orientation ( 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 16 , 17 , 18 ). Indeed, individuals who are bicultural have been found to exhibit fewer symptoms of depression ( 17 , 19 ) and anxiety ( 19 ), less substance use ( 12 ), and higher levels of flourishing and life satisfaction ( 13 ) compared with individuals with other orientations.…”

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Acculturative Orientations Among Hispanic/Latinx Caregivers in the ABCD Study: Associations With Caregiver and Youth Mental Health and Youth Brain Function

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Peraza²,

Riedel³

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Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

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Acculturative Orientations Among Hispanic/Latinx Caregivers in the ABCD Study: Associations With Caregiver and Youth Mental Health and Youth Brain Function

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“…Most studies taking a typological approach by dichotomizing and recombining the two cultural orientation scales have reported positive effects of dual identification and supported, at least to some extent, the Additive Resource Model (see the meta-analysis by Nguyen & Benet-Martínez, 2013, and the review by Schwartz et al, 2018). However, studies with a person-centered approach using cluster or latent profile analyses have arrived at very different classifications (Jugert et al, 2020;Schwartz & Zamboanga, 2008;Spiegler et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2018), especially when cultural identity was conceptualized multidimensionally or additional variables such as cultural practices or acculturation stress were used in the classification (Meca et al, 2015, Meca, Cruz, Lucero, et al, 2023Meca, Cruz, Veniegas, et al, 2023). A recent study from Italy with sample of early adolescents (Karataş et al, 2023) is the only one to have reproduced Berry's typology.…”

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Cultural Identity and the Academic, Social, and Psychological Adjustment of Adolescents with Immigration Background

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Becker,

Jansen

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J. Youth Adolescence

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As Western societies become more ethnically and culturally diverse, understanding the acculturation of immigrant youth is essential for fostering social cohesion. How the cultural identity formation of ethnic minority adolescents relates to their academic, social, and psychological adjustment is an important and as yet unresolved research question. This study examined to what extent identifying with the heritage and/or host culture is an individual resource or risk factor for the adjustment of immigrant youth in Germany. A random sample of 15–17-year-olds (N = 1992; Mage_w1 = 15.3 years, SD = 0.64; 44.5% girls; 44.7% students with immigrant background) was assessed twice: at the end of 9th and 10th grade. Academic performance and three dimensions of social/psychological adjustment (school attachment, self-esteem, and life satisfaction) were examined. Results showed that biculturalism was the modal identification pattern. Contrary to expectations, cultural identification did not differ systematically with perceived distance from the majority culture. Multivariate structural equation modeling revealed that both heritage and host identification can be developmental resources, but that their effects are dependent on the dimension of adjustment; biculturalism only proved to be a cumulative resource for school attachment. The domain specificity of the findings challenges the generalization claims of predominant acculturation theories.

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“…However, several studies have identified distinct forms of biculturalism, particularly among adolescent and emerging adult populations (Schwartz & Zamboanga, 2008). Moreover, whereas several studies have failed to identify a marginalization strategy (Salas-Wright et al, 2015;Schwartz & Zamboanga, 2008), recent studies have indicated support for the existence of a marginalized strategy wherein individuals reject or detach from both cultural streams (Bulut & Gayman, 2020;Meca et al, 2017Meca et al, , 2023. However, understanding inconsistencies in extracted profiles across studies is made more difficult by the lack of inclusion of cultural stressors.…”

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Profiles of acculturative strategies and cultural stressors among Hispanic/Latinx college-attending emerging adults.

Meca,

Cruz,

Lucero

et al. 2023

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objective: The present study identified unique profiles of cultural stressors (i.e., bicultural stress, discrimination, and negative context of reception) and acculturative strategies (i.e., heritage practices, heritage identification, U.S. practices, and U.S. identification), in Hispanic/Latinx (HL) emerging adults. Additionally, we examined associations between positive and negative psychosocial functioning, with profiles of acculturative strategies and cultural stressors. Method: The present study utilized a baseline sample of 779 HL college students (75.8% female, M age = 20.80 years, SD = 2.66) drawn from a daily diary study on acculturation. Results: Latent profile analysis identified four distinct profiles. The Bicultural and Low Cultural Stressors (B-LowCS; 53.55%) was marked by strong heritage and U.S. cultural orientation and low levels across all cultural stressors. The Marginalization and High Acculturative Stressors (M-HighAS; 20.13%) was marked by weak heritage and U.S. cultural orientation, high acculturative stressors, and low discrimination. The third profile, the Heritage Rejection and Low Cultural Stressors (HR-LowCS; 16.05%) was marked by rejection of heritage culture and low cultural stressors. Finally, the Separation and High Cultural Stressors (S-HighCS; 10.26%) was marked by weak U.S. cultural orientation and high cultural stressors. Consistent with past research, the B-LowCS profile was marked by the highest level of positive psychosocial functioning and the lowest levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Conclusions: The results of the present study highlight the usefulness of person-centered approaches for understanding the interplay between acculturative strategies and cultural stressors, and the implications of these distinct profiles on psychosocial functioning in HL emerging adults. Public Significance StatementOur findings highlight that acculturation and cultural stressors do not occur in a vacuum, but instead, cooccur and are interrelated in complex ways. Indeed, our findings highlighted two distinct groups of Hispanic/Latinx marked by low cultural stressors, one endorsing a bicultural orientation, the other largely detached from their cultural heritage. On the other end, we identified two profiles marked by high cultural stressors, each with a distinct cultural orientation.

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Cultural Identity Configurations: A Latent Profile Analysis of Ethnic/Racial and U.S. Identity Process and Content

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

Acculturative Orientations Among Hispanic/Latinx Caregivers in the ABCD Study: Associations With Caregiver and Youth Mental Health and Youth Brain Function

Acculturative Orientations Among Hispanic/Latinx Caregivers in the ABCD Study: Associations With Caregiver and Youth Mental Health and Youth Brain Function

Cultural Identity and the Academic, Social, and Psychological Adjustment of Adolescents with Immigration Background

Profiles of acculturative strategies and cultural stressors among Hispanic/Latinx college-attending emerging adults.

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