Expatriate partners’ personality and its influence on acculturation into a new cultural context: Examining the role of dispositional affectivity

Despite the vital role that trailing partners play for successful expatriation, we still know very little about what actually causes to thrive and integrate effectively into new cultural context. However, as indications have emerged personality of could be key a favorable acculturation trajectory, set out explore this further. More specifically, assess expatriate partners’ dispositional affectivity, is, positive negative affectivity. We examine in relation internal (in form interaction general adjustment) external local community embeddedness intentions stay or return home). Drawing on data 123 partners, full support was found three four hypotheses regarding effects Further, marginally significant association identified relationship between affectivity repatriation intentions. For two were met. Interestingly, no influence found. The adjustment indicating some tentative support. In sum, study corroborates is an overall important concept explain acculturation. seems vary along different proxies