1. Objectifs

Intentions :
« The purpose of this study was to examine how young adults perceive their parents’ attempts to socialize them with respect to their heritage culture. » (p. 241)

Questions/Hypothèses :
« We hypothesized that parents would play a central role in a child’s cultural internalization, particularly with regard to the heritage culture. We predicted that the way parents regulate their children’s cultural behavior would influence how the children subsequently regulate themselves [...]. » (p. 242)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Study 1: 105 multicultural college students living in Montreal
Study 2: 125 Chinese-Malaysians sojourners

Instruments :
Questionnaires

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

« Previous research has demonstrated that autonomy support is one particularly effective means of promoting internalization and fostering well-being. The present study sought to determine if this would also be the case with regards to culture by testing the relation of perceived parental autonomy support to the cultural internalization and well-being of multicultural students. In Study 1, 105 multicultural participants living in Canada were more likely to have fully internalized their host and heritage cultures and to have higher self-reported well-being when they reported that their parents were autonomy supportive. In Study 2, 125 Chinese-Malaysians sojourners were also more likely to have fully internalized their heritage culture and indicated higher well-being when they perceived their parents as autonomy supportive. In both studies, heritage cultural internalization was also associated with higher well-being. »