{"id":37693,"date":"2025-07-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=37693"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:00:00","slug":"the-association-of-acculturation-and-well-being-second-generation-immigrants-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=37693","title":{"rendered":"The Association of Acculturation and Well-Being: Second-Generation Immigrants in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s) : Beate Schwarz, Pirmin Pfammatter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10902-024-00794-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10902-024-00794-z<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;In recent decades, there has been a rapid increase in immigration rates throughout Europe, and many immigrants remained permanently. As a result, a substantial part of society are second-generation immigrants. Despite an increase in research related to this population, predominantly from the US, it remains unknown, whether growing up and living in two cultures fosters immigrants\u2019 subjective well-being. The present study investigated the association between acculturation (here heritage and mainstream culture orientation) and subjective well-being of second-generation immigrants in Switzerland. We further ran a multigroup analyses for women and men separately. Data of <em>N<\/em>\u2009=\u2009492 adult children of immigrants (66% women; <em>M<\/em><sub>age<\/sub>\u2009=\u200932.39, <em>SD<\/em><sub>age<\/sub>\u2009=\u200910.46) were analyzed. Structural equation modelling showed that both orientation toward heritage and toward mainstream culture were positively related to subjective well-being, and that this was moderated by gender. Furthermore, the interaction between both kinds of orientation had a significant effect on subjective well-being. The study addresses several gaps in the existing research literature in three key ways: (1) it adds a European perspective; (2) it focuses on understudied second-generation immigrants; (3) it measures acculturation bilinear and multidimensional, as is required theoretically. Moreover, the findings may contribute to a more nuanced public discourse, where the significance of both mainstream orientation and heritage culture is occasionally called into question.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Acculturation, Subjective well-being, Second-generation immigrants<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Beate Schwarz, Pirmin Pfammatter Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10902-024-00794-z Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[291,288,7,37,120,9,148,17,411,177,145,313,315],"class_list":["post-37693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-family-racism","tag-291","tag-acculturation","tag-article","tag-attitudes-towards-migrants","tag-data-analysis","tag-english-language","tag-gender","tag-immigrants","tag-perception","tag-psychological-well-being","tag-second-generation","tag-social-policy","tag-welfare-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}