New temporal concepts of acculturation in immigrant youth

Immigrant Health—Selectivity and Acculturation

Acculturation and adaptation of immigrant adolescents in Greek urban schools.

The purpose of this study was to examine the acculturation, psychological well-being, and school adjustment of Pontian adolescents from the former Soviet Union (FSU-Pontians), who are immigrants of the diaspora living in Greece, compared with an immigrant group from Albania and native Greek classmates. The sample included 165 FSU-Pontian immigrants, 272 immigrants from Albania, and their 525 Gr...

Acculturation and School Adjustment of Immigrant Youth in Six European Countries: Findings from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

School adjustment determines long-term adjustment in society. Yet, immigrant youth do better in some countries than in others. Drawing on acculturation research (Berry, 1997; Ward, 2001) and self-determination theory (Ryan and Deci, 2000), we investigated indirect effects of adolescent immigrants' acculturation orientations on school adjustment (school-related attitudes, truancy, and mathematic...

INSULINOMA NEW CONCEPTS IN MANAGEMENT

In this report, nine patients with insulinoma who were operated on between 19H5 and I <J<J3 at the Shohada Medical Center affiliated to the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran are presented. There were three males and six females (male to female ratio I :2) and the patients' age ranged from 23 to 60 years old (mean age 37.6 years old). Duration of symptoms was from thr...

The Psychological Foundations of Homegrown Radicalization: an Immigrant Acculturation Perspective

Title of Dissertation: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HOMEGROWN RADICALIZATION: AN IMMIGRANT ACCULTURATION PERSPECTIVE Sarah Louise Lyons, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Michele Gelfand Department of Psychology In the post-9/11 era, an increasing number of extremist threats are homegrown. Radical organizations such as the Islamic State are actively targeting Muslim i...