Immigrant students and their teachers – exploring various constellations of acculturation orientations and their impact on school adjustment

Hoti, Andrea Haenni; Wolfgramm, Christine; Müller, Marianne; Heinzmann, Sybille; Buholzer, Alois

doi:10.1080/14675986.2019.1586214

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“…Children could withdraw from the study or skip parts of the questionnaire at any time. Design and results of this study are described in detail in another publication [ 6 ].…”

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Item analysis of the KIDSCREEN-10 using Rasch modelling

Müller

Hoti

2020

Health Qual Life Outcomes

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Aim To test the psychometric properties of the KIDSCREEN-10. Background It is important to assess mental health and well-being in children for an early detection of psychological problems or hidden morbidities. There is limited knowledge about the psychometric quality of the reduced version of the KIDSCREEN questionnaire with only 10 items. Methods Analysis of psychometric properties was done by fitting Rasch models and graphical loglinear Rasch models to data collected in a study on acculturation of primary school children and their teachers in 2017. Results The data did not fit a Rasch model but did fit a graphical loglinear Rasch model. There was local dependence for four item pairs and differential item functioning for gender and citizenship. Conclusions The KIDSCREEN-10 provides essentially valid measurements of health-related quality of life in children if local dependency and dif ferential item functioning are taken into account. Reliability and targeting were less than satisfactory, especially for certain subgroups but reliability was adequate for most groups.

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“…Children could withdraw from the study or skip parts of the questionnaire at any time. Design and results of this study are described in detail in another publication [ 6 ].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Item analysis of the KIDSCREEN-10 using Rasch modelling

Müller

Hoti

2020

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“…Indeed, monocultural and monolingual norms are often dominant in schools (Moffitt et al, 2019). However, in everyday school life, if the expectation for cultural adoption is not complemented by the support for cultural maintenance, students of immigrant descent may feel that their cultural background is not sufficiently valued or even denigrated ( Van Acker et al, 2014;Haenni Hoti et al, 2019). Teachers should be aware of the impact acculturation attitudes may have on students' acculturation, academic achievement, and the teacherstudent-relationship (Foster, 2008;Vedder and van Geel, 2012).…”

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Teachers’ acculturation in culturally diverse schools - How is the perceived diversity climate linked to intercultural self-efficacy?

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While in the school context, acculturation is often studied in relation to students of immigrant descent, the current study applies an acculturation framework to teachers mostly representing the mainstream culture. Specifically, we investigated whether teachers’ acculturation attitudes towards their students mediate effects of the perceived cultural diversity climate at school on teachers’ intercultural self-efficacy in culturally diverse classrooms. Analyses were based on reports of 186 teachers (14% of immigrant descent; Mage = 40.8; SDage = 11.8, 73% female) in 22 culturally diverse secondary schools in Southwest Germany. Path analyses indicated that perceived norms of cultural pluralism, and perceived norms of equality and inclusion are directly and positively associated with facets of intercultural self-efficacy. Moreover, teachers’ support for cultural maintenance amongst their students was associated with intercultural self- efficacy, but no mediation was found between climate and intercultural self-efficacy via acculturation attitudes. Implications for teacher training, educational practice and future research on the acculturation and adjustment of teachers in culturally diverse classrooms are discussed.

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“…At the same time, the foreign language, unfamiliar social customs, and unusual lifestyle may cause a sense of alarm, loneliness and deprive the peace of mind (Syzdykova et al, 2020). Thus, children with migrant backgrounds do not easily adapt to schooling, which in turn results in lower self-esteem and standing (Haenni Hoti et al, 2019;Rasool & Zhang, 2020;Schachner et al, 2017). Besides, even migrants of the next generation can feel the trace of migration when adapting to school (Melkonian et al, 2019).…”

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Cultural and Language Effects of Migration: The Case of Migrants and Chuvash People in the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia)

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According to the World Migration Report there are 11.6 million migrants in Russian Federation, the majority of which (43%) have come from countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The study aims to evaluate the impact of migration on both migrant and host cultures to establish the changes in native languages and cultures of migrant ethnic groups in the Russian Federation under the influence of a single state language. For the study, the authors used statistical data of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, findings of the 1920-2010 censuses, and mathematical modeling of cultural changes based on differential equation. The case of Chuvash people living in the Republic of Bashkortostan was explored by the mathematical modeling method to identify the alien cultural influence on the recipient country, with a particular emphasis on changes in the local language. The direct correlation has been found between the extent to which the migrant community preserve their homeland traditions at a new place and the probability of shifts in the host country’s culture. The preservation of migrants’ native language in everyday living demonstrates a high probability of replacing the host language by the migrant one in their environment (the probability is 5-10% higher than the expected level for 7 districts and 11 to 50% - in 8 districts out of 26 studied). The results may have practical use in evaluating the probability of major cultural shifts across the world as the international mass migration increases in volume and scope.

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Immigrant students and their teachers – exploring various constellations of acculturation orientations and their impact on school adjustment

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Item analysis of the KIDSCREEN-10 using Rasch modelling

Item analysis of the KIDSCREEN-10 using Rasch modelling

Teachers’ acculturation in culturally diverse schools - How is the perceived diversity climate linked to intercultural self-efficacy?

Cultural and Language Effects of Migration: The Case of Migrants and Chuvash People in the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia)

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