As research into acculturation increases, two competing models have emerged. The
unidimensional model posits that heritage and host culture identifications have an inverse
relationship, whereas the bidimensional model proposes that the two identifications are
orthogonal. In the first study we compared these models in 164 Chinese-Canadian students,
and found that the two dimensions were viable and had a distinct pattern of non-inverse
correlations with aspects of personality. These findings remained after controlling for basic
demographic characteristics. In the second study, we compared the two models in a sample of
157 Chinese-Canadian students, and again found that the two dimensions were viable and had
a distinct pattern of non-inverse correlations with self-construal and psychosocial adjustment.
The findings for adjustment remained after controlling for extraversion and neuroticism. We
argue that, for both conceptual and empirical reasons, the bidimensional model is a more useful
conceptualization of acculturation. Implications of these findings are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/9731 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Ryder, Andrew George |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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