A Tight Spot: How Personality Moderates the Impact of Social Norms on Sojourner Adaptation

Geeraert, Nicolas; Ren, Li; Ward, Colleen; Gelfand, Michele J.; Demes, Kali A.

doi:10.1177/0956797618815488

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“…Regarding context factors, positive, integration-promoting effects should be facilitated by communal, PSYCHOLOGY OF REFUGEE INTEGRATION 25 collectivistic (Abele & Wojciszke, 2007), and, more specifically, multicultural orientations of the hosting society (Ward et al, 2018). Integration-impeding effects should be more likely when the environment in the receiving society provides more (vs. less) salient cues to rejection and aggression, and when the receiving society culture is generally tight (vs. loose) (Geeraert, Li, Ward, Gelfand, & Demes, 2019).…”

Section: Perceptions and Memories Of Suffering And Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Echterhoff¹,

Hellmann²,

Back³

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The successful management of refugee immigration, including refugee integration in host societies, requires a sound understanding of underlying psychological processes. We propose a model of the Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI), highlighting perceived forcedness (i.e., coercion and loss of control from “push” factors) and ensuing perils (risks and potential suffering during migration) as distinctive factors of refugee (vs. voluntary) migration. According to our model, perceptions and subjective representations of forcedness and associated perils activate specific psychological processes relevant to refugee integration and thus moderate responses to the demands and stressor of the immigration situation. We conceptualize these distinctive influences for integration-relevant processes in both refugees and in residents. By pinpointing the unique features of refugee migration, PARI generates novel and specific hypotheses about psychological processes predicting refugee integration. For instance, refugees’ memories of forcedness and associated perils should lead to high preoccupation with the restoration of basic needs after arrival in a receiving country, which interferes with integration-related activities. Conversely, residents’ perceptions of forcedness and related perils may enhance empathy with refugees, but may also magnify feelings of anxiety and threat. Implications for refugee integration are discussed for the domains of occupational work, education, and mental health.

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Section: Perceptions and Memories Of Suffering And Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Echterhoff¹,

Hellmann²,

Back³

et al. 2019

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“…Many researchers have become interested in what individual and groups factors impact on sojourner adjustment using person-environment fit models. Thus Valenzuela and Rogers (2018) noted how the Big Five personality traits related to different acculturation strategies while Geeraert et al (2019) in a longitudinal study identified Agreeable and Honesty-Humility as important traits in the process of sojourner adjustment.…”

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“…Psychology, 10, 1832-1855. https://doi.org/10. 4236/psych.2019.1013119 Psychology sojourners (Geereaet, Li, Ward, Gelfand, & Demes, 2019) and expatriates (Valenzuela & Rogers, 2018) as well as the often ignored shock of being visited: namely a host person coming into contact with travelers to his or her home (McGhee, 2006).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Culture Shock: A Review of the Literature for Practitioners

Furnham¹

2019

PSYCH

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This paper considers the research on the ever-popular concept of culture shock and related ideas. Researchers from different disciplines (anthropology, education, psychiatry, psychology, sociology) have attempted to operationalise the concept, measure it, and understand the process behind it, as well as develop strategies to help those who experience it. This paper also considers issues concerned with the measurement of adjustment as well as the various groups of travellers who can have serious culture shock difficulties. Implications of this research are considered. This integrative review summarises a range of theory and evidence relevant to the UN SDGs, in particular to SDG10 which includes facilitating safe regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and wellmanaged migration policies. It also considers practical implications which will be of interest to medical and educational practitioners, policy makers, charitable institutions and travellers themselves. 1833 Psychology reaction of travellers. Its aim is primarily educational, aimed specifically at travellers and educators. People have, and will, always travel to "far off lands", different countries and continents and possibly soon planets, for very different purposes. They go to convert, conquer, explore, trade, teach, learn, holiday and settle. Over the last century, the reduced costs and increased ease of short and long-distance travel have shown a dramatic rise in people's movements around the world. This means that although they do not anticipate experiencing it, more and more people are confronted with culture shock.There are many ways to classify these travellers i.e. how long they go for (i.e. migrants vs. sojourners vs. tourists); how far they travel (near vs. far; familiar vs unfamiliar); their motives for movement (education, trade, expansion); the nature of stranger-host relations (friendly vs. antagonistic) etc. Furthermore, they are of interest to different academic disciplines like anthropology, economics, education, psychiatry, psychology and sociology. What they have in common is that they have to "adapt to the new environment": to learn new ways of behaving, feeling and thinking. This can be unexpected and demanding.The data on the sheer number of people moving between countries is staggering. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees report for 2016, in all 65.6 million people are displaced worldwide; one person flees every 3 seconds, and over half of the world's refuges are children. It is estimated that currently around 400 million people are migrants (nearly 4% of the world population); there are currently 70 million refugees; that there are nearly 5 million foreign students; and that 1.3 billion people go abroad as tourists every year. The comparative ease and cheapness of travel means that these numbers are likely to increase. Two generations ago, people in all countries tended to stay where they were: now children need passports to travel abroad. This has result...

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“…climate) and social environment (e.g. cultural values, social norms or thinking) can be extremely challenging for newcomers [ 18 ]. For instance, scholars have carried out some investigations on how these differences in physical and social environment directly impact international sojourners [ 19 ].…”

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Crossing the rice-wheat border: Not all intra-cultural adaptation is equal

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Geeraert

2020

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This study aimed to test whether or not where people come from and move to impacts their method for dealing with stress. We investigated this research question among newcomers crossing between the rice and wheat farming regions in China—south and north China, respectively. New evidence suggests wheat-farming agriculture fosters a coping strategy of changing the environment (primary coping), while rice-farming regions foster the converse strategy of fitting into the environment (secondary coping). Using two longitudinal studies on newcomers at universities located in both the rice and wheat farming regions, we hypothesized that students from south China (rice region) at a university in north China (wheat region) would use more primary coping and it would lead to better adaptation (Study 1). In contrast, students from wheat-farming regions moving to a rice university would benefit from secondary coping as an effective strategy for buffering stress (Study 2). Results indicated that for students from rice-farming regions who were studying universities in wheat-farming regions, secondary coping was damaging and attenuated the stress-adaptation relationship. However, in study 2, the reverse was found, as secondary coping was found to buffer the negative effects of stress on sociocultural adaptation for students from wheat-farming regions who were studying at universities in rice-farming regions. This study lends further support to the theory that ecological factors impact how individuals cope with the acculturative stress of moving to a new environment.

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A Tight Spot: How Personality Moderates the Impact of Social Norms on Sojourner Adaptation

Cited by 48 publications

References 37 publications

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Culture Shock: A Review of the Literature for Practitioners

Crossing the rice-wheat border: Not all intra-cultural adaptation is equal

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