“What's your accent, where are you from?”: Language and belonging among older immigrants

Zemba, Stephanie; Mehrotra, Meeta

doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101189

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“…Participants were randomly assigned to a control condition, or they were asked to imagine being insulted and being treated poorly as a result of their speech, a commonly reported bicultural stressor (Houshmand et al, 2014; A. J. Romero & Roberts, 2003; Zemba & Mehrotra, 2023). As described below, this scenario was piloted to ensure that, on average, immigrant participants reading this passage experienced distress followed by having their speech insulted and/or being treated poorly as a result of their speech.…”

Section: Cultural Stressors and The Well-being Of Immigrantsmentioning

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Cultural stress and immigrant well-being: The role of sense of purpose.

Hill,

Beatty,

Toprakkiran

et al. 2024

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objectives: Immigrants face multiple forms of cultural stress that hold pernicious influences on their psychological well-being, including everyday discrimination, bicultural stressors, and negative context of reception from others. Research thus is needed to consider potential buffers and mitigating factors that may help immigrant adults in the face of cultural stress. The present studies evaluated a sense of purpose as one potential buffer. Method: Study 1 asked immigrant adults in the Unites States to complete measures of the three cultural stress indicators in addition to sense of purpose and measures of well-being (depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, self-esteem, self-rated health). Multiple regression analyses examined whether sense of purpose moderated the influence of cultural stress on immigrant well-being. Study 2 randomly assigned immigrant participants receive an experimental condition that asked participants to imagine a common cultural stressor faced by immigrants. Multiple regression analyses tested whether sense of purpose operated differently on postscenario affect across the control and experimental conditions. Results: Study 1 found that all cultural stress indicators negatively correlated with psychological well-being and sense of purpose. However, sense of purpose did not significantly moderate these associations. Study 2 found that imagining the cultural stressor led to worse momentary affective well-being, whereas sense of purpose was associated with better well-being. Again, sense of purpose did not interact with the condition to predict the postscenario affect. Conclusions: Sense of purpose was consistently associated with better psychological well-being. However, little evidence was found that sense of purpose mitigates the ill effects of cultural stress for immigrant adults. Public Significance StatementWith immigration increasing worldwide, research is needed to understand which factors may help promote resilience and well-being among immigrants. The present study demonstrates that sense of purpose is linked to better immigrant well-being, but it may be at risk for immigrants who experience culturally relevant stressors. Future research is needed to help mitigate the risk of cultural stressors for immigrants, both with respect to their sense of purpose and well-being.

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Section: Cultural Stressors and The Well-being Of Immigrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%