Today, international migration has caused many ethnic groups to live in culturally diverse societies. Turkish immigrants the United States is one of those whose population growing. Despite growing population, there currently little research on how acculturation can influence subjective wellbeing living States. This study sought examine what extent heritage and host acculturations were associate...

Consuming regular meals has been studied in relation to better health, while higher regularity of eating-out has been linked to obesity. This study examined whether acculturation was associated with regularity of meals, eating-out, and overweight in Korean Americans. Pre-tested questionnaires were mailed to a U.S. national sample with Korean American surnames, and 55% of the deliverable sample ...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding rates are typically higher among Hispanic women; however, they vary by acculturation status in that those more acculturated are less likely to breastfeed than those who are less acculturated. This study examined the association between acculturation and breastfeeding behaviors using population-based data. METHODS Data (N = 8942) from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Moni...

In this conceptual article we investigate the cultural dimension of IT-usage through the concept of ITacculturation. This concept has been emerging in the research literature about IT-usage. Extending work from the acculturation field of research, we do not conceptualize IT-acculturation as a simple one-way linear process but rather as a recursive, multi-level process and also as a state at a g...

The generalizability of K. M. Cramer’s (1999) help-seeking model was examined for Asian and Asian American college students. The construct of acculturation was then added to Cramer’s model to determine if it would improve the model fit. Asian and Asian American (n 202) students completed help-seeking measures and behavioral and value-based measures of acculturation. White (n 336) students compl...

It was hypothesized that acculturative anxiety would be represented in the dream contents of immigrants’ nighttime dreams in the USA. According to “Lee Acculturation Dream Scale” (Sang Bok Lee, 2005: Psychological Reports, 96, 454-456), Korean-Americans’ dreams represented their acculturation processes. Also, a simple t-test on “Lee Cross-cultural Anxiety Dream Scale” means showed significant d...

The present study explores the process of cultural and psychological change that follows intercultural contact (i.e., acculturation) and the wellbeing and social adjustment of 736 Turkish immigrant adolescents aged 13–18 living in six countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Perceived discrimination was the strongest negative predictor of their adaptation outcom...

Many developing countries (DCs) have limited IS human resources. Hence, their university-level IS classes are often taught by foreign faculty. Despite this arrangement, poor quality of IS education in DCs is a continuing problem. Research indicates cultural differences as an important reason for this problem. Foreign faculty imposing westerncurriculum and teaching practices without adapting to ...

In the present study, we examined a bidimensional model of acculturation (which includes both heritage and U.S. practices, values, and identifications) in relation to hazardous alcohol use, illicit drug use, unsafe sexual behavior, and impaired driving. A sample of 3,251 first- and second-generation immigrant students from 30 U.S. colleges and universities completed measures of behavioral accul...

To understand ethnic differences and the role of acculturation, this study compared a model of fathers’ care-giving across European American and Hispanic fathers. The model included Care-giving, Nurturing, Play, and Cognitive Stimulation and used Structural Equation Modelling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Analyses included: a) model comparison (i.e. four factors against single factor); b) m...