Immigrant Workers’ Language Proficiency and Cultural Identity Congruence and Work–Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Conflict at Work

IF 2.4 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI:10.1177/00220221231194597

Sudong Shang, Tengfei Guo, Maree Roche, Neena Gopalan, Minghui Wang

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Abstract

To facilitate a much greater understanding of work–family conflict (WFC) in the cross-cultural context, work–family research begins to investigate the critical role of acculturation in WFC. The purpose of this study is to expand understanding of the role of acculturation in a more nuanced way by investigating how two important facets of acculturation (i.e., language proficiency and cultural identity), jointly influence WFC among immigrant workers. We conducted a polynomial regression with response surface analysis using two-wave longitudinal data from Chinese immigrants in New Zealand (N = 264). The results showed that the congruence of language proficiency and cultural identity led to lower levels of interpersonal conflict at work (ICW). However, the congruence between them at high levels did not lead to lower levels of ICW compared to congruence at low levels. In addition, ICW fully mediated the combined effects of immigrant workers’ language proficiency and cultural identity on their WFC. Our results suggest that benefits are associated with language proficiency and cultural identity congruence and the findings provide insight into the role of acculturation in WFC.

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移民工人的语言能力和文化认同认同与工作-家庭冲突：工作中人际冲突的中介作用

为了更好地理解跨文化背景下的工作-家庭冲突（WFC），工作-家庭研究开始调查文化适应在WFC中的关键作用。本研究的目的是通过调查文化适应的两个重要方面（即语言能力和文化认同）如何共同影响移民工人的WFC，以更微妙的方式扩大对文化适应作用的理解。我们使用来自新西兰中国移民的两波纵向数据（N=264）进行了多项式回归和响应面分析。结果表明，语言水平和文化认同的一致性导致工作中人际冲突的程度较低。然而，与低水平的一致性相比，他们在高水平上的一致性并没有导致ICW水平降低。此外，ICW充分中介了移民工人的语言水平和文化认同对其WFC的综合影响。我们的研究结果表明，益处与语言熟练度和文化认同一致性有关，这些发现为了解文化适应在WFC中的作用提供了见解。

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology publishes papers that focus on the interrelationships between culture and psychological processes. Submitted manuscripts may report results from either cross-cultural comparative research or results from other types of research concerning the ways in which culture (and related concepts such as ethnicity) affect the thinking and behavior of individuals as well as how individual thought and behavior define and reflect aspects of culture. Review papers and innovative reformulations of cross-cultural theory will also be considered. Studies reporting data from within a single nation should focus on cross-cultural perspective. Empirical studies must be described in sufficient detail to be potentially replicable.