Acculturation Attitudes and Social Adjustment in British South Asian Children: A Longitudinal Study

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1656-1667

  Brown, Rupert ^a   Baysu, Gülseli ^b   Cameron, Lindsey ^c   Nigbur, Dennis ^d   Rutland, Adam ^c   Watters, Charles ^e   Hossain, Rosa ^c   LeTouze, Dominique ^a   Landau, Anick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; development; intergroup relations; well being

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERGROUP RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; WELL-BEING;

ACCULTURATION; DEVELOPMENT; INTERGROUP RELATIONS; WELL-BEING;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ASIA, WESTERN; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 84887509852     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167213500149     Document Type: Article

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