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culture change and psychosocial adjustment
Author(s) -
Barger W. K.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1977.4.3.02a00050
Subject(s) - psychosocial , situational ethics , settlement (finance) , psychology , culture change , association (psychology) , social psychology , sociology , anthropology , psychotherapist , economics , finance , payment
Three positions identified in the literature on the relationship between culture change and psychosocial adjustment are tested in a comparative study of Inuit (Eskimos) and Cree Indians in a northern Canadian settlement. Both descriptive and statistical evidence indicate that no universal association between change and adjustment obtains and that any relationship existing between them is case‐specific and is due to the situational and cultural contexts of change. Implications of these findings for theory and research are also suggested.