{"id":38741,"date":"2026-05-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38741"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:29:46","slug":"tridimensional-acculturation-and-academic-self-concept-of-minoritized-primary-students-in-swiss-multicultural-classrooms-a-latent-profile-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38741","title":{"rendered":"Tridimensional Acculturation and Academic Self-Concept of Minoritized Primary Students in Swiss Multicultural Classrooms: A Latent Profile Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s): Simona Schmid, Andrea Haenni Hoti, Elena Makarova<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/educsci16030386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/educsci16030386<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schools are increasingly shaped by societal change and growing cultural diversity, calling for refined approaches to understanding the acculturation of minoritized students. This study examined acculturation profiles among minoritized primary students (n = 736) in Switzerland, applying a tridimensional framework that incorporates a multicultural orientation, beyond heritage and majority orientation. Using a three-stage latent profile analysis, four distinct acculturation profiles emerged: Multiculturalists (33.3%), Heritage-oriented Multiculturalists (29.9%), Majority-oriented Multiculturalists (29.2%), and a smaller group of Assimilationists (7.6%). The number of parents born abroad, religious practice, Swiss citizenship, and socioeconomic status predicted students\u2019 profile membership. Comparisons of academic self-concept showed that only Majority-oriented Multiculturalists differed from the other profiles. Our findings suggest that a high multicultural orientation may support students\u2019 academic self-concept mainly when paired exclusively with a strong majority orientation. In contrast, our results demonstrate that a strong heritage orientation may be less favorably related to academic self-concept, even when paired with a high multicultural orientation. However, given the cross-sectional design, the results call for further longitudinal research. Nonetheless, the results of this study indicate a necessity for more differentiated acculturation frameworks that consider the multidimensionality of acculturation in contemporary culturally diverse classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: migration; acculturation; minoritized students; academic self-concept; school adjustment; primary school; latent profile analysis<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Simona Schmid, Andrea Haenni Hoti, Elena Makarova Source: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/educsci16030386<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[854,288,7,595,146,77,9,421,121,180,117,290],"class_list":["post-38741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-854","tag-acculturation","tag-article","tag-assimilation","tag-discrimination","tag-education-policy","tag-english-language","tag-ethnic-diversity","tag-ethnic-minorities","tag-multiculturalism","tag-school-integration","tag-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38741","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38742,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38741\/revisions\/38742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}