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Expanding the Acculturation Gap-Distress Model: An Integrative Review of Research
Abstract
The acculturation gap-distress model purports that immigrant children acculturate to their new culture at a quicker pace than their parents, leading to family conflict and youth maladjustment. This article reviews literature on the acculturation gap-distress model, showing that acculturation gaps function in unique ways depending on many social and contextual variables. In contrast to the original model, which only discusses 1 type of acculturation gap, there are at least 4 types of acculturation gaps: (1) the child is more acculturated than the parent in the host culture, (2) the child is less acculturated than the parent in the host culture, (3) the child is more acculturated than the parent in the native culture, and (4) the child is less acculturated than the parent in the native culture. A review of research indicates that each of these types of gaps function in unique ways.
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“The acculturation gap hypothesis is complex as not all immigrant families are impacted by parent–youth cultural gaps in similar ways and acculturation gaps can have multiple manifestations (Cox, Zapata Roblyer, Merten, Shreffler, & Schwerdtfeger, 2013; Telzer, 2011).”
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“In a thorough review of the literature, Telzer (2010) concluded that the acculturation-gap-distress model does not have consistent empirical support and that perhaps parent and child acculturation are related to child functioning in more complex ways.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Telzer, E. H.
- Venue
- Human Development
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 313-340
- ISSN
- 0018-716X (ISSN-L)
- 1423-0054
- OpenAlex
- W2056733698
- Cited by
- 332
- References
- 66
- FWCI
- 17.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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