The Relationship between Self-Construals and Acculturation among Female Korean Australians

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This study examined acculturation patterns of Korean Australian women living in Australia and their relationship to self-construals. Based on Min-sun Kim’s argument, the study examined varying effects of self-construals on Berry’s acculturation categories. First, Berry’s model of acculturation was reviewed, which contains four strategies immigrants and sojourners would adopt in host society; integration, assimilation, separation, and marginalization. Second, the study analyzed how the migrants’ self-construals were related to the four acculturation strategies. An online survey was conducted among Korean Australian women. As a result, a total of 171 data were collected and analyzed. The result indicated that 1) they preferred integration (M=4.528) and separation modes (M=3.87) to assimilation (M=3.05) ; 2) t he immigrant women with independent self-construal were prone to take an assimilation strategy (β=.220, p<.05); 3) the immigrant women with interdependent self-construal took a separation as an acculturation strategy (β=.168, p<.05), while the strategy was not related with the immigrants with independent self-consrulas (β=-.251, p<.05); 4) the interdependent self-construal (β=3.56, p<.001) had influence on immigrants’ psychological preference for integration strategy; 5) the immigrant women with independent self-construals did not have a tendency to taking a marginalization strategy (β=-.242, p<.05).

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