Family and Youth Development: Some Concepts and Findings Linked to The Ecocultural and Acculturation Models

John W. Berry ()
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John W. Berry: Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada

Societies, 2022, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: Much research on migrants has focused on single individuals; however, the large-scale movement of people from one society to another often includes families made up of parents, their children and other relatives. Over time, these families and their members settle into their new society; they experience the process of acculturation and eventually adapt to their new circumstances. The processes of acculturation and adaptation are highly variable across cultural groups, societies of settlement, families and individuals. Sometimes this process is challenging, and may engender disagreements and conflicts among members of a family about how to acculturate. Variations in these patterns allow for the examination of which acculturation experiences and strategies lead to better adaptations. This paper reviews some of the core concepts and frameworks for examining them, and presents some findings on how families and youth acculturate and adapt. It concludes with some suggestions for how to acculturate using the integration strategy to improve family and individual adaptations.

Keywords: acculturation; acculturation strategies; adaptation; cultural transmission; ecocultural model; enculturation; ethnocultural groups; families; integration; youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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