Acting Bicultural Versus Feeling Bicultural: Cultural Adaptation and School-Related Attitudes Among U.S. Latina/o Youth

Ignacio D. Acevedo-Polakovich; Kelley M. Quirk; Jennifer R. Cousineau; Suchita R. Saxena; James I. Gerhart

doi:10.1177/1538192713514610

Acting Bicultural Versus Feeling Bicultural: Cultural Adaptation and School-Related Attitudes Among U.S. Latina/o Youth

Ignacio D. Acevedo-Polakovich, Kelley M. Quirk, Jennifer R. Cousineau, Suchita R. Saxena, James I. Gerhart

Psychology

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This study examines whether incorporating a multidimensional perspective to the study of the relation between cultural adaptation and academic attitudes among Latinas/os in the United States can clarify this relation. Hypotheses about the relation between cultural adaptation and academic attitudes were examined using data provided by U.S. Latina/o high school students. Findings suggest that enculturation and acculturation moderate each other's effects on academic attitudes and that this moderation effect varies across cultural adaptation dimensions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	32-47
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1538192713514610
State	Published - Jan 2014

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academic attitudes
acculturation
cultural adaptation
enculturation
ethnic identity

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