International Journal of Intercultural Relations最新文献

{"title":"Is everywhere I go home? Reflections on the acculturation journey of African international students in China","authors":"Allan Muganga ,&nbsp;Yohana Kifle Mekonen ,&nbsp;Michael Agyemang Adarkwah ,&nbsp;Oluwasegun A. Oladipo ,&nbsp;Chiamaka Nneoma Nweze ,&nbsp;Saira Bibi","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This qualitative study explores the acculturation journey of African international students in China, focusing on the evolution of their experiences. While previous research has often overlooked the progressive nature of international students, particularly from Africa, this study addresses this gap by examining how these students navigate academic, cultural, and psychological challenges over time. Using a conceptual framework informed by existing acculturation theories, the study identified six key dimensions shaping the acculturation process. Fifteen African international students, aged 25–36 years, with lengths of stay ranging from 4 to 7 years, were selected from three research-intensive universities in China. The findings reveal that early acculturation stress, including challenges like language barriers and culture shock, significantly impacts these students’ psychological well-being and makes securing internships more difficult. However, students who accessed strong peer networks and received supervisor support demonstrated better coping strategies and higher satisfaction by their final year. This study shows that acculturation is a dynamic process and suggests that educational institutions should improve support systems to better support the well-being and academic success of international students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chinese students’ perceptions of affordances and challenges, and their associated reactions within different contexts of intercultural communication","authors":"C.J. Yang ,&nbsp;V. Popov ,&nbsp;H.J.A. Biemans","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The perceptions of Chinese students in intercultural communication have been well-documented in literature. However, the context-dependent features of these perceptions have yet to be addressed by scholars. This study provides a qualitative examination of the perceptions of Chinese students concerning affordances, challenges, and related reactions within the contexts of personal interaction, group work, and class interaction, based on their individual experiences of intercultural communication. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was employed to explore the personal intercultural communication experiences of 22 Chinese international students within multicultural classroom settings at a Dutch university. Qualitative data suggest that the reactions of these Chinese students are closely linked to the context in which they find themselves and the perceptions they experience at the time. The challenges and affordances perceived by participants were summarized within their respective contexts, along with their reactions. The findings reveal the perception and reaction tendencies of these Chinese students across different contexts. Based on these findings, the perspective of context-sensitivity in intercultural communication is reinforced. Furthermore, the construction of appropriate contexts is considered an effective pathway to facilitate Chinese students’ participation in intercultural interactions, and the group work is more appropriate than the other two contexts are for communication as a learning environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multicultural experience and young Chinese people’s subjective well-being: An indirect effect through self-construal","authors":"Xiaoyu Dai,&nbsp;Davelle Lee,&nbsp;Chi-Ying Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional Chinese culture promotes ingroup harmony and personal conformity, which facilitates a cultural tendency of perceived self-other similarity among Chinese people’s self-concepts. However, with increased exposure to foreign cultures due to globalization, many young Chinese may see themselves as more unique in relation to others via contrast and comparison. This shift in self-construal may facilitate the pursuit of a more positive self-view and enhanced personal happiness. Thus, it is expected that among Chinese people, multicultural experience would be positively linked to construing the self as different from others, which, in turn, would predict higher self-esteem and subjective well-being. An online survey study with 1387 Chinese adults aged below or equal to 40 years old was conducted to test these hypotheses. The results supported the hypotheses, showing that multicultural experience was indirectly associated with higher levels of self-esteem and subjective well-being through an increased tendency to construe the self as different from others. Theoretical and practical implications were discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longitudinal relationships between coping strategies, cultural orientations, and mental health among young refugees from the Middle East in Germany","authors":"Usama EL-Awad ,&nbsp;Hannah Nilles ,&nbsp;Johanna Braig ,&nbsp;Pia Schmees ,&nbsp;Denny Kerkhoff ,&nbsp;Yasemin Kilinc ,&nbsp;Jana-Elisa Rueth ,&nbsp;Heike Eschenbeck ,&nbsp;Arnold Lohaus","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Upon arrival in the host country, young refugees typically experience post-migration stress due to the daily challenges of the new environment and culture they encounter. This study examined changes in cultural orientations toward both the dominant and the society of origin in young refugees and their possible indirect association with the interplay between the prior adoption of coping strategies - classified as functional (seeking social support, problem-focused coping, palliative emotion regulation) or dysfunctional (avoidant coping, anger-related emotion regulation) - and later mental health outcomes, including internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Data of 94 Middle Eastern refugees in Germany aged 8 to 18 years (Mage = 13.32 years, SDage = 2.98 years, 46% female), who completed questionnaires at two time-points approximately one year apart, were analyzed. Path analytic results show that young refugees who actively addressed problems and sought social support were better adapted to their environment, namely reported more cultural integration and fewer internalizing and externalizing symptoms over time. They also used functional approaches to emotion regulation. No effects were found for avoidant coping and anger-related coping strategies. However, the small scale of the indirect effects observed points to the potential involvement of contextual factors in the relationships studied. Therefore, a combination of support programs and conducive environments where functional stress coping strategies can be developed and practiced in the acculturation context could be crucial for successful socio-cultural adjustment and beneficial for the mental health of young refugees in Western countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143128416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overcoming barriers to intercultural communication in romantic love relationships across WIERD and non-WEIRD cultural regions","authors":"Charles T. Hill,&nbsp;Collaborators","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102114","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102114","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Overcoming barriers to Intercultural Communication was explored in new analyses of 5432 participants with partners in a cross-cultural study of romantic love relationships. Intercultural differences were measured by low similarity on race, nationality, ethnicity, or cultural background. Potential barriers were measured by low similarity on attitudes and values, religious beliefs, interests and hobbies, or language. Communication was measured by scales of four topics revealed to and by the partner and trusting the partner not to lie. As predicted, intercultural differences were correlated with potential barriers, barriers were correlated with less communication, and communication was correlated with relationship satisfaction, commitment, and five measures of well-being. Yet measures of intercultural differences were only trivially correlated with communication, with factors that best predict relationship satisfaction, and with relationship satisfaction, commitment, and five measures of well-being. In other words, couples with intercultural dissimilarity are almost as likely to overcome barriers to communication and other challenges to relationship satisfaction and relationship commitment, and are just as likely to achieve well-being, as other couples. These findings were consistent across nine cultural regions around the world, including both WEIRD and non-WEIRD cultural regions. They were also consistent across eight types of romantic love relationship defined by women or men in opposite-sex or same-sex relationships unmarried or married.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102114"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining acculturation in three generations of Turkish-Dutch citizens: The role of national identification, cultural values, language, and media use","authors":"Mustafa Akpinar ,&nbsp;Lisa Vandeberg ,&nbsp;Paul Hendriks Vettehen ,&nbsp;Joep Hofhuis ,&nbsp;Hanneke Hendriks","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite decades of residence, Turkish-Dutch citizens, one of the largest immigrant groups in the Netherlands, continue to face significant disparities in health, social, and economic factors compared to native Dutch citizens. To better understand this persistent disparity, we examined the acculturation process of Turkish-Dutch citizens across three generations. Our study addressed two critical research gaps: (1) acculturation processes across three generations within a specific immigrant group, and (2) different acculturation domains across these generations. Data from 464 participants (232 Turkish-Dutch, 232 Dutch) show that acculturation varies significantly across generations (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) and domains (i.e., national identification, cultural values, language, and media use), with the second generation demonstrating the strongest resemblance to native Dutch citizens in most domains. These findings contribute to a nuanced understanding of acculturation processes and confirm the need for future research to consider generational differences and domain-specificity. The results have potential implications for policymakers and practitioners aiming to reduce disparities of Turkish-Dutch citizens with tailored policy and communication strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102129"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “‘Newcomers’ psychosocial resources and their acculturation and adaptation into settlement society: Mediating role of hope” [International Journal of Intercultural Relations 105C (2025) 102111]","authors":"Elcin Ray-Yol ,&nbsp;Effat Ghassemi ,&nbsp;Saba Safdar","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143313037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"National resilience rise following the Hamas invasion of southern Israel as an indicator of collective post-traumatic growth","authors":"Yohanan Eshel ,&nbsp;Hadas Marciano ,&nbsp;Shaul Kimhi ,&nbsp;Arielle Kaim ,&nbsp;Maya Siman Tov ,&nbsp;Bruria Adini","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study employs 12 measurements of national resilience (NR) as evidence for the collective post-traumatic growth (CPTG) of the Israeli public in response to Hamas's 7.10.2023 invasion of southern Israel. Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a positive psychological development experienced as a result of a struggle with traumatic events. It was extensively investigated at the individual level. Similar growth at the collective level has been studied less often and only recently was theoretically recognized. The available CPTG studies that used different names to describe this collective growth employed case studies of highly stressful or traumatic events to infer its existence. These studies demonstrated that highly stressful incidents can produce social solidarity, a stronger feeling of cohesion, a positive emotional atmosphere, a surge of patriotism, or a stronger faith in governmental decisions. Most of these studies do not compare pre and post-trauma community responses. Our study seems to be the first to demonstrate CPTG empirically by comparing national resilience before and during war. The concept of CPTG refers to perceived positive changes at a societal level after a collective trauma. It takes the form of heightened post-traumatic solidarity and a sense of unity. NR shares several features with CPTG: trust in the government and its leader, the national institutes to cope with extreme adversity, social solidarity, and patriotism. We claim that a significant upsurge of NR following the Hamas invasion of southern Israel constitutes a marker of CPTG. We employed a quasi-longitudinal method, with some repeated measurements, at twelve distinct substantial stressful Israeli events over two and a half years. Each measurement represented the Jewish-Israeli population and responded to the same online questionnaire. Results showed that in agreement with our hypothesis, the NR expressed in response to the Hamas invasion was significantly higher than each NR score of the previously investigated adversities and conflicts. The discussion pointed out the need to improve our ability to sustain the public spirit of CPTG over time and our understanding of antecedent conditions that can transform collective traumas into CPTG.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promoting positive intergroup emotions toward refugees through perceived similarity, empathy, and justice sensitivity","authors":"Seçil Gönültaş,&nbsp;Serengeti Ayhan","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined how perceived similarity with Syrian refugees is related to intergroup emotions in helping and victimization through empathy and justice sensitivity in children and adolescents. Data was collected from 510 Turkish middle and high school students (<em>M</em>_<em>age</em> = 13.20, <em>SD</em> = 1.92; aged between 10 and 18). Pride in helping refugee peers, the guilt of not being able to help refugee peers, and anger to observe the victimization of refugee peers were measured. Participants’ perceived similarity with Syrian refugees, empathy towards victimized Syrian refugee peers, and observer justice sensitivity towards refugees were evaluated through self-report measures. Parallel mediation models documented significant indirect effects of perceived similarity on three intergroup emotions via empathy and justice sensitivity. Results suggested that participants with higher perceived similarities were more likely to empathize with refugees and report higher rates of justice sensitivity towards the victimization of refugees, which in turn predicted higher feelings of pride, guilt, and anger. Although the direct effects of perceived similarity on intergroup emotions were insignificant, the total effects of perceived similarity were significant. This study contributes to the growing body of literature investigating the possible association between intergroup emotions, intergroup attitudes, and social-cognitive skills to provide insights for intervention programs to promote positive intergroup relations in schools.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The influence of host receptivity and conformity pressure on the intercultural transformation of Filipino migrants in New Zealand","authors":"Lenis Aislinn C. Separa,&nbsp;Stephen M. Croucher,&nbsp;Georgeta M. Hodis,&nbsp;Angela Feekery","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Filipinos are the second fastest-growing Asian population working in dairy farming, healthcare, construction, and other industries in New Zealand. Like other immigrants, Filipinos experience basic and advanced intercultural transformation as they communicate and interact with people in the country. Croucher and Kramer’s cultural fusion theory proposes a positive relationship between host receptivity and intercultural transformation and a negative relationship between host conformity pressure and intercultural transformation. Employing a survey of 315 Filipino migrants in New Zealand, this study addresses the extent to which host receptivity and host conformity pressure affect intercultural transformation. Regression analysis is used to assess the hypotheses and research question. Results reveal both host receptivity and host conformity pressure have positive relationships with intercultural transformation. The potential role of media and Filipino values in this study are also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}