Pub Date : 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102319
Yeasle Lee , Katie Hoemann , Batja Mesquita
Normative emotional patterns vary across cultures, and emotional fit with a cultural norm is linked to well-being. Immigrant-origin minority adolescents often navigate multiple cultural contexts, such as school and home, where emotional patterns may differ. In a daily diary study, we examined whether minority adolescents exhibited context-congruent emotional fit – dynamically aligning their emotional experiences with the pertinent cultural norms of each context – and how context-congruent fit relates to well-being in positive and negative situations. Surprisingly, adolescents’ emotional fit with both minority and majority norms was consistently higher at home than at school, providing only partial support for context-congruent emotional fit. Additionally, context-congruent emotional fit was positively associated with well-being in positive situations but negatively in negative situations. These findings suggest that immigrant-origin adolescents’ well-being depends on both emotional fit and situational valence, underscoring that their daily emotional lives reflect complex cultural dynamics rather than a simple minority-majority dichotomy.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102330
Chongguang Zhu , Renzhong Peng
With the growing number of Chinese students in the UK, their psychological adaptation has received significant attention. While previous studies highlighted the positive effects of social support and intercultural competence (ICC) on psychological adaptation, most have focused on bivariate relationships, overlooking the interaction between the three variables. This study employs Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to investigate the complex relationships between social support, ICC, and psychological adaptation, with a particular emphasis on the mediating role of ICC. Data from 523 Chinese students in the UK were analyzed to assess both direct and mediating effects. The findings reveal that knowledge of self, knowledge of others, attitudes, communicative skills, and cognitive skills significantly mediate the relationship between social support and psychological adaptation. However, awareness was not found to be a significant mediator in this relationship. By exploring the mediating effects of multiple dimensions of ICC between social support and psychological adaptation, this study clarifies the mechanism of psychological adaptation among Chinese students in the UK.
{"title":"Social support and psychological adaptation among Chinese students in the UK: The mediating role of intercultural competence","authors":"Chongguang Zhu , Renzhong Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102330","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102330","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the growing number of Chinese students in the UK, their psychological adaptation has received significant attention. While previous studies highlighted the positive effects of social support and intercultural competence (ICC) on psychological adaptation, most have focused on bivariate relationships, overlooking the interaction between the three variables. This study employs Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to investigate the complex relationships between social support, ICC, and psychological adaptation, with a particular emphasis on the mediating role of ICC. Data from 523 Chinese students in the UK were analyzed to assess both direct and mediating effects. The findings reveal that knowledge of self, knowledge of others, attitudes, communicative skills, and cognitive skills significantly mediate the relationship between social support and psychological adaptation. However, awareness was not found to be a significant mediator in this relationship. By exploring the mediating effects of multiple dimensions of ICC between social support and psychological adaptation, this study clarifies the mechanism of psychological adaptation among Chinese students in the UK.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102330"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-18DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102316
Rainer Reisenzein , Maria Schmuck , Irina Mchitarjan
According to the theory of cultural transmission in minorities (Mchitarjan & Reisenzein, 2014a), sociocultural groups desire to maintain their cultural system and transmit it to the next generation. We report a factorial survey experiment that tested a central assumption of the theory: The culture-transmission motive is activated by perceived threats to cultural transmission and motivates pedagogical actions designed to cope with those threats. Young adults imagined that they decided to emigrate to a fictitious country with their partner and child. The degree of threat to cultural transmission was manipulated by varying the description of the immigration country on six dimensions representing favorable or unfavorable conditions for cultural transmission, while the strength of the participants’ culture-transmission motive was measured. As predicted, (1) obstacles to cultural transmission (e.g., different values and norms) increased participants’ anxiety about losing the culture of origin and their intentions (behavioral self-predictions) to engage in culture-preserving actions (e.g., living cultural values in the family); (2) the effects of the obstacles generally increased with the strength of the culture-transmission motive; (3) the combined effects of obstacles and the culture-transmission motive on intentions to engage in culture-preserving actions were partly mediated by anxiety about the loss of culture.
{"title":"Activation of the culture-transmission motive in immigrants: A factorial survey experiment","authors":"Rainer Reisenzein , Maria Schmuck , Irina Mchitarjan","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102316","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102316","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>According to the theory of cultural transmission in minorities (Mchitarjan & Reisenzein, 2014a), sociocultural groups desire to maintain their cultural system and transmit it to the next generation. We report a factorial survey experiment that tested a central assumption of the theory: The culture-transmission motive is activated by perceived threats to cultural transmission and motivates pedagogical actions designed to cope with those threats. Young adults imagined that they decided to emigrate to a fictitious country with their partner and child. The degree of threat to cultural transmission was manipulated by varying the description of the immigration country on six dimensions representing favorable or unfavorable conditions for cultural transmission, while the strength of the participants’ culture-transmission motive was measured. As predicted, (1) obstacles to cultural transmission (e.g., different values and norms) increased participants’ anxiety about losing the culture of origin and their intentions (behavioral self-predictions) to engage in culture-preserving actions (e.g., living cultural values in the family); (2) the effects of the obstacles generally increased with the strength of the culture-transmission motive; (3) the combined effects of obstacles and the culture-transmission motive on intentions to engage in culture-preserving actions were partly mediated by anxiety about the loss of culture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102318
Larissa Remennick
In most western democracies, waves of mass migration entail uneasy intercultural encounters between native majorities and newcomers. Despite the universal nature of these interactions on the ground, there is paucity of micro-sociological and ethnographic research that documents and interprets these encounters ‘from below’. This essay explores the evolving relations between ex-Soviet immigrants and veteran Mizrahi Jews who have shared for over three decades residential communities in Israel’s geo-social periphery. Following mass immigration of (ex)Soviet Jews to Israel during the 1990s, by now this intercultural encounter spans three generations. Drawing upon her previous qualitative research (foregrounded by relevant macro-level data), the author reflects on the mechanisms of intergroup relations as part of migrant acculturation and gradual inclusion in the local context. Beginning from mutual hostility and social distancing among Gen 1.0 ‘Russians’ and Mizrahim, the younger cohorts manifested gradual mutual acceptance. Integration paths taken by ‘Russian’ Gens 1.5 and 2.0 were clearly gendered. Girls and young women often opted for cultural mimicry, adopting Mizrahi habitus in self-presentation, dress, and leisure. Boys and young men were typically prone to ‘Russian’ ethnic retention and forcefully resisted violence of their Mizrahi peers at school and in the streets. Over time, conflicts subsided, replaced by mutual inclusion and cultural cooptation. These time- and generation-based dynamics reflected mutual pragmatic interests in coexistence with the Other, supplemented by exchange of valuable material and symbolic resources. The findings offer a novel perspective for exploring the effects of diversity on social cohesion ‘on the ground’, calling for more comparative research.
{"title":"Intercultural dynamics in urban periphery: Ex-Soviet Immigrants’ encounter with Mizrahi Israelis across generations","authors":"Larissa Remennick","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102318","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102318","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In most western democracies, waves of mass migration entail uneasy intercultural encounters between native majorities and newcomers. Despite the universal nature of these interactions on the ground, there is paucity of micro-sociological and ethnographic research that documents and interprets these encounters ‘from below’. This essay explores the evolving relations between ex-Soviet immigrants and veteran Mizrahi Jews who have shared for over three decades residential communities in Israel’s geo-social periphery. Following mass immigration of (ex)Soviet Jews to Israel during the 1990s, by now this intercultural encounter spans three generations. Drawing upon her previous qualitative research (foregrounded by relevant macro-level data), the author reflects on the mechanisms of intergroup relations as part of migrant acculturation and gradual inclusion in the local context. Beginning from mutual hostility and social distancing among Gen 1.0 ‘Russians’ and Mizrahim, the younger cohorts manifested gradual mutual acceptance. Integration paths taken by ‘Russian’ Gens 1.5 and 2.0 were clearly gendered. Girls and young women often opted for cultural mimicry, adopting Mizrahi habitus in self-presentation, dress, and leisure. Boys and young men were typically prone to ‘Russian’ ethnic retention and forcefully resisted violence of their Mizrahi peers at school and in the streets. Over time, conflicts subsided, replaced by mutual inclusion and cultural cooptation. These time- and generation-based dynamics reflected mutual pragmatic interests in coexistence with the Other, supplemented by exchange of valuable material and symbolic resources. The findings offer a novel perspective for exploring the effects of diversity on social cohesion ‘on the ground’, calling for more comparative research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102318"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102323
Brad Deacon , Xingjian Gao , Lina Wang , Xuechen Hu , Jiro Takai
Although intercultural communication competence (ICC) scales are widely used, research has seldom examined the antecedent traits and mediating processes shaping Japanese undergraduates’ intercultural development. This longitudinal study applied a Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model to investigate Japanese university students’ (N = 155) intercultural behavioral intent during a short-term study-abroad (STSA) program. The study hypothesized predictive links across four nomological steps: personality traits, mediators (attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control), intercultural behavioral intent, and actual intercultural behavior. Repeated-measures ANOVA showed significant increases in attitudes and perceived behavioral control. SEM showed good model fit and provided partial support for the hypothesized pathways. Openness emerged as the strongest personality predictor, while attitudes and subjective norms mediated intercultural intent. In contrast, perceived behavioral control was not significant. Longitudinal mediation analysis revealed significant indirect effects on actual intercultural behavior. Findings highlight the value of integrating personality and intent measures in STSA research. This study suggests that educators and program designers should pay particular attention to fostering openness, intercultural attitudes, and peer support to enhance students’ ICC.
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The current study investigates the relationship between fear of war and perceived intergroup threats and their influence on public support for refugee policies in Poland, within the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we explored how empathic concern and hostile emotions toward refugees relate to fear of war, perceived threats, and policy support. Participants completed psychometric measures assessing fear of war, perceptions of symbolic and realistic threats, empathic concern, hostile emotions, and support for policies concerning Ukrainian war refugees. Findings revealed that empathic concern strengthens the connection between fear of war and support for refugee policies, offering critical insights into the emotional mechanisms shaping public attitudes. Conversely, symbolic threats are associated with diminished policy support through both lower empathic concern and heightened hostile emotions, while realistic threats show no significant association. This research deepens our understanding of how various forms of fear and threat perception, alongside emotional responses felt towards refugees influence refugee policy support, emphasizing the importance of context-sensitive strategies in policy development to address these complex dynamics effectively.
{"title":"Emotional foundations of refugee policy support: The role of threats and emotions towards refugees","authors":"Zafer Ozkan , Małgorzata Kossowska , Ewa Szumowska , Jolanta Perek-Białas , Paulina Szwed","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102326","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102326","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current study investigates the relationship between fear of war and perceived intergroup threats and their influence on public support for refugee policies in Poland, within the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we explored how empathic concern and hostile emotions toward refugees relate to fear of war, perceived threats, and policy support. Participants completed psychometric measures assessing fear of war, perceptions of symbolic and realistic threats, empathic concern, hostile emotions, and support for policies concerning Ukrainian war refugees. Findings revealed that empathic concern strengthens the connection between fear of war and support for refugee policies, offering critical insights into the emotional mechanisms shaping public attitudes. Conversely, symbolic threats are associated with diminished policy support through both lower empathic concern and heightened hostile emotions, while realistic threats show no significant association. This research deepens our understanding of how various forms of fear and threat perception, alongside emotional responses felt towards refugees influence refugee policy support, emphasizing the importance of context-sensitive strategies in policy development to address these complex dynamics effectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145527485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102322
Elvis Nshom
The ongoing Anglophone conflict in Cameroon represents one of the most protracted and complex political crises in sub-Saharan Africa. While the conflict has been widely examined from political and historical perspectives, limited attention has been paid to the psychological mechanisms underlying Anglophone support for secession. Guided by the rejection-identification model, rejection-disidentification model, and relative deprivation theory, this study investigates how perceived discrimination, at both the personal and group levels, influences support for secession among Anglophone Cameroonians, and whether ingroup identification mediates these relationships. Data was collected through an online survey of 314 Anglophone participants. Results revealed that both perceived personal and group discrimination significantly predicted support for secession, with no meaningful difference between the two predictors. Ingroup identification was found to be positively related to both forms of perceived discrimination and to partially mediate their effects on support for secession. These findings suggest that experiences of discrimination, whether personal or collective, strengthen identification with the Anglophone community, which in turn fosters support for political separation. The study extends the rejection-identification framework to a novel socio-political context, highlighting the psychological dimensions of secessionist attitudes and underscoring the need to address perceived discrimination at both the individual and collective levels in efforts toward conflict resolution in Cameroon.
{"title":"How group identification shapes the impact of perceived discrimination on secessionist attitudes among Anglophone Cameroonians","authors":"Elvis Nshom","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102322","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102322","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ongoing Anglophone conflict in Cameroon represents one of the most protracted and complex political crises in sub-Saharan Africa. While the conflict has been widely examined from political and historical perspectives, limited attention has been paid to the psychological mechanisms underlying Anglophone support for secession. Guided by the rejection-identification model, rejection-disidentification model, and relative deprivation theory, this study investigates how perceived discrimination, at both the personal and group levels, influences support for secession among Anglophone Cameroonians, and whether ingroup identification mediates these relationships. Data was collected through an online survey of 314 Anglophone participants. Results revealed that both perceived personal and group discrimination significantly predicted support for secession, with no meaningful difference between the two predictors. Ingroup identification was found to be positively related to both forms of perceived discrimination and to partially mediate their effects on support for secession. These findings suggest that experiences of discrimination, whether personal or collective, strengthen identification with the Anglophone community, which in turn fosters support for political separation. The study extends the rejection-identification framework to a novel socio-political context, highlighting the psychological dimensions of secessionist attitudes and underscoring the need to address perceived discrimination at both the individual and collective levels in efforts toward conflict resolution in Cameroon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102322"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145527486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102324
Woo Gwan Jo , Joseph Ahn , Wonjong Horace Lee
This study examines a key psychological mechanism linking acculturative stress to social isolation among multicultural adolescents in South Korea, conceptualizing the mediating role of social withdrawal and the moderating role of in-school support resources. Data from the fifth wave of the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study (MAPS) was collected from 1842 multicultural adolescents residing in South Korea. A moderated mediation model was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results indicated that social withdrawal partially mediated the relationship between acculturative stress and social isolation. While an initial direct relationship between stress and isolation was observed, the primary association of acculturative stress in the full model operated indirectly through social withdrawal. Prominently, this mediation pathway was moderated by in-school support resources. These findings highlight social withdrawal as a key pathway through which acculturative stress is positively linked to isolation. Moreover, they demonstrate that in-school support resources can serve as a critical protective factor, buffering the detrimental outcomes of this process.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102321
Julien Brisson , Juan Carlos Ramirez Tovar , Jesus Gregorio , Kelika Konda , Alfonso Silva-Santisteban , Amaya Perez-Brumer
This paper explores how migration (re)shapes the sexual lives of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) from Venezuela now living in Lima, Peru. While global public health discourses have predominantly framed GBM migrant sexualities through narratives of risk, especially in relation to HIV, this study draws attention to the dynamic interplay between pleasure and vulnerability in post-migration sexuality. Based on five focus groups with 42 GBM Venezuelan migrants in Lima (age range 23–54; median 36), this analysis examines how post-migration contexts can open space for greater sexual freedom and experimentation, including the adoption of new practices such as cruising and group sex. Participants described migration as an opportunity to explore their sexual identities more openly, even as they reported encountering heightened risks to sexual health, such as more frequent condomless sex with casual partners and substance use during sexual activity. Amid the precarious context of resettlement, participants employed harm reduction strategies, including frequent testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). By examining how GBM migrants navigate sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure during post-migration and resettlement, this paper contributes to emerging scholarship in sex-positive public health that affirms erotic agency while attending to the structural conditions that shape vulnerability (e.g., HIV/STIs prevention barriers). In doing so, the paper offers a more nuanced understanding of male sexuality in South-South migration in Latin America, emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, non-stigmatizing interventions that support both sexual health and well-being by paying attention to migrant GBM’s pleasure beyond the limitations of risks.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102317
Sedef Turper
Inaccurate information about migrants and migration policies has increasingly circulated in the form of disinformation and misinformation, particularly in political contexts where migration is a salient issue. The current study examines the impact of migration-related misperceptions on the endorsement of restrictive immigration policies by focusing on misperceptions resulting from exposure to dis- and misinformation about policies governing the rights and obligations of migrants. By utilizing representative survey data from Turkey and adopting a Structural Equation Model approach, the current study demonstrates that the propensity of group relative deprivation to translate into restrictive policy preferences significantly increases when natives misperceive the immigration policy context as being more inclusive than it truly is. Findings reveal that natives who hold inflated perceptions about the inclusivity of migration policies are more likely to support restrictive migration policies, despite holding similar levels of threat perceptions and feelings of group relative deprivation as their correctly informed counterparts. The findings underscore that disinformation about migration policies amplifies the impact of natives’ senses of violated entitlements on their immigration policy preferences. As such, they also hold broader implications for the public reception of multicultural policies.
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