Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D. in Psychology
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Stefan E. Schulenberg
Second Advisor
John P. Bentley
Third Advisor
Scott A. Gustafson
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
The concept of acculturation has a long history, and measures of the construct attempt to assess the degree to which attitudes and behaviors reflect the interaction between different cultures. Berry’s acculturation framework (1997) is arguably the most empirically-supported and well-known model of acculturation. Berry’s model posits that an individual may have difficulty appropriately adapting to a culture different than his or her own depending on how much they are oriented to either culture. Moreover, Searle and Ward (1990) hypothesized that an individual’s acculturation orientation, in addition to how different the dominant and non-dominant cultures are from one another, impacts psychological and sociocultural adaptation to a foreign culture.
Recommended Citation
Tkachuck, Mathew A., "Validating Military Culture: The Factor Analysis of a Military-Related Adaptation of Acculturation" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1716.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1716