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Acculturation Attitudes of Potential Emigrants: Jewish Youths in Russia
Author(s) -
Tartakovsky Eugene
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb00262.x
Subject(s) - acculturation , emigration , psychology , value (mathematics) , social psychology , immigration , judaism , distress , preference , clinical psychology , political science , geography , law , archaeology , machine learning , computer science , economics , microeconomics
The present paper investigates the acculturation attitudes of potential emigrants and their relationship to value priorities, cultural identifications, and psychological well‐being. The results confirm that potential emigrants have a well‐formed system of acculturation attitudes and that integration is the predominant acculturation attitude of the majority of potential emigrants. Preference for acculturation attitudes other than integration is associated with the psychological distress of potential emigrants. The research confirms that personal value preferences underlie acculturation attitudes of potential emigrants, thus indicating that each acculturation attitude allows accomplishment of different motivational goals in the situation of emigration. Cultural identifications of Jewish potential emigrants in Russia are discussed in light of their relationships with value priorities and acculturation attitudes.