Open AccessChanges in Self-Image Resulting from Migration
Author(s) -
Olga Yu. Zotova,
Elena B. Perelygina,
Sergey Mostikov
Publication year - 2019
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.35853/ufh-rmp-2019-sp07
Subject(s) - emigration , perception , construct (python library) , personality , set (abstract data type) , identity (music) , population , psychology , social psychology , self image , self , image (mathematics) , cognitive psychology , geography , sociology , computer science , demography , artificial intelligence , aesthetics , philosophy , archaeology , neuroscience , programming language
The perception of one’s own identity is one of the basic moments of a personality construct as they relate to how people act; perceive the world around and with what social they identify themselves. While immersed in an alien culture these perceptions transform. The authors aimed to examine differences in selfimages of the Russian-speaking emigrants before and after emigration. Our hypothesis implies significant differences in self-image upon immersing in another cultural environment. The objective we set resides in identifying aspects of selfimage exposed to transformations and the degree of these changes. For data accumulating before and after the process of international migration with a period of 14 months, we exploited M. Kuhn and T. McPartland’s test “Who am I?” The data demonstrated statistically significant differences in the respondents’ self –image in the course of adaptation. The results allow us to conclude that with a changing social situation self-perception also most alternations exhibit those aspects of selfimage through which the respondents interacted with a host-country population. We believe that self-image presents a hierarchically organized, complex, and dynamic structure with the core and the periphery. The components of self-image can rebuild itself in response to a situation of social interaction.