Acculturation Gaps Between Turkish Immigrant Marriage Partners: Resource or Source of Distress?

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 667-683

  Spiegler, Olivia ^a   Leyendecker, Birgit ^a   Kohl, Katharina ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

acculturation gap; acculturation stress; biculturalism; ethnic identity; gender differences; immigration migration; language; national identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930691193     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022115578686     Document Type: Article

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