Open AccessImpact of Parents' Motivation for Ethnocultural Continuity and Acculturation Strategies on Acculturation of Children in Russian Families in Latvia
Author(s) -
Рябиченко Татьяна Анатольевна,
Лебедева Надежда Михайловна,
Плотка Ирина Даниловна
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
kulʹturno-istoričeskaâ psihologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2224-8935
pISSN - 1816-5435
DOI - 10.17759/chp.2015110207
Subject(s) - acculturation , psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , sociology , ethnic group , anthropology
The paper presents outcomes of an empirical research on the relationship between motivation for ethno¬cultural continuity and acculturation strategies in ethnocultural minorities (with Russians in Latvia as an example). Since acculturation is a process that affects several generations, we adopted a research plan that involved representatives of two generations of a family (parents and children). 112 Russian families partici¬pated in the research (parents: N=112, age 35—59, Me=42; children: N=112, age 16—24, Me=17). A question-naire we used included J. Berry's acculturation strategies, scales of satisfaction with life and oneself, and the Motivation for Ethnocultural Continuity scale by C. Ward. The employed structural modeling revealed that acculturation strategies of the children correlate significantly with those of their parents as well as with their own motivation for ethnicultural continuity. The adolescents' choice of integration strategy is positively relat¬ed to their satisfaction with themselves; however, in the cases of marginalization and assimilation this relation is negative.