Assessing attitudes towards mutual acculturation in multicultural schools: Conceptualisation and validation of a four-dimensional mutual acculturation attitudes scale
| Autor: | Wassilis Kassis, Clarissa Janousch, Petra Sidler, Elena Makarova |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Dominant culture
multicultural schools scale validation Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Immigration mutual acculturation Social environment Context (language use) Structural equation modeling Acculturation Cultural heritage Multiculturalism Business and International Management Psychology Social psychology acculturation attitudes exploratory structural equation modelling media_common mutual intercultural relations |
| DOI: | 10.26041/fhnw-4030 |
| Popis: | Assessment of acculturation attitudes usually has focused on the importance of two dimensions: first, immigrants’ maintenance of cultural heritage and, second, immigrants’ adoption of the majority culture. Because acculturation is a reciprocal interaction, we extended a bidimensional scale to four dimensions to assess mutual acculturation. Given the importance of the social context for acculturation and schools as a crucial context for immigrant pupils’ acculturation, the scale extension was validated within the context of school. We hypothesised that acculturation attitudes are held not only towards immigrant pupils but also towards native pupils and towards schools’ responsibility to support intercultural contact. The study sample comprised 364 secondary school pupils in Swiss multicultural schools. Using exploratory structural equation modelling, we validated four distinct dimensions of acculturation attitudes: attitudes towards immigrant pupils’ (a) heritage culture maintenance and (b) adoption of the dominant culture and attitudes towards (c) native pupils acquiring cultural knowledge and (d) schools enabling intercultural contact. We conclude that the proposed four-dimensional scale is a valid tool for assessing attitudes towards mutual acculturation within the school context and that acculturation attitudes are held not only towards immigrant pupils but also towards native pupils and schools. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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