Daily agreeableness and acculturation processes in ethnic/ racial minority freshmen: The role of inter-ethnic contact and perceived discrimination
Date
2023-02
Authors
Wu, Yiqun
Xu, Jingyi
Shen, Yishan
Wang, Yijie
Zheng, Yao
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Wiley
Abstract
Objectives: Having higher levels of mainstream cultural orientation (MCO), an important component of acculturation attitudes and behaviors, is beneficial for ethnic/racial minority students during the transitions into university. Scant research has investigated MCO at a micro daily timescale. This study examined how personality (agreeableness) functions in conjunction with interpersonal processes (inter-ethnic contact and perceived discrimination) to influence MCO as daily within-person processes.
Methods: Multi-level structural equation modeling were used to analyze month-long daily diary data from 209 ethnic/racial minority freshmen (69% female).
Results: There was a positive indirect association between agreeableness and MCO through inter-ethnic contact at both within-and between-person levels. At the within-person level, on days with lower (vs. higher) levels of ethnic/racial discrimination, higher levels of agreeableness were associated with higher levels of MCO.
Conclusions: These findings highlight the contributions of intensive longitudinal data in elucidating ethnic/racial minority students' personality and acculturation processes in daily life involving protective and risk factors on micro timescales.
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acculturation, agreeableness, daily diary data, inter-ethnic contact, mainstream cultural orientation, perceived ethnic/racial discrimination
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Wu, Y., Xu, J., Shen, Y., Wang, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2023). Daily agreeableness and acculturation processes in ethnic/ racial minority freshmen: The role of inter-ethnic contact and perceived discrimination. Journal of Personality, pp. 1-16.
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