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Intersectionality—a conceptual and analytical framework for understanding how aspects of an individual's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege—has gained significant traction in psychology in the past decade. This framework urges researchers and policymakers to consider systemic and social factors that may preclude marginalized and racialized people from accessing the same opportunities as their majority-group counterparts. Despite some conceptual similarities between cultural psychology, intergroup relations, and intersectionality, this framework has been noticeably absent from the field of acculturation research. Acculturation has largely been conceptualized as the parallel negotiation of one's engagement with mainstream and heritage cultural environments. Research in acculturation has mainly focused on antecedents and challenges related to this engagement. Here, we set forth that an important gap in this research domain pertains to the limited consideration of the systemic and social factors that may preclude marginalized and racialized migrants' access to both mainstream and heritage cultural identities. Specifically, we argue that to understand migrants' experiences in their new country, it is essential to consider the unique contexts that emerge from the intersection of identities (e.g., gender, religious, and racial identities), social categories (e.g., socioeconomic status and ethnicity), and exclusions (e.g., social rejection experience because of one's marginalized identities). To that end, we aim to set an agenda for future research which presents intersectionality as a key perspective to include in acculturation research. We also incorporate practical recommendations for the use of an intersectional framework in the study of acculturation, at all steps of the research process, from the elaboration of research questions to quantitative analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although value-based actions are often associated with improved mental health outcomes, few studies have explored this relationship on a daily level. The aim of this diary study was to explore how value-based actions change over time and assess how these fluctuations are associated to psychological distress and well-being both within- and between-day. Ninety-seven Canadian post-secondary students (n = 1581 observations) took part in this study. For 21 consecutive days, they were invited to complete end-of-day diaries (EOD) querying their daily level of distress, well-being and value-based actions. The questionnaires were sent to each student's mobile phone at a random time between 18:00 p.m. and 22:30 p.m. Data were analysed using multilevel modeling and time-lagged analysis. The results show that 1) daily value-based actions were negatively associated with daily distress and positively associated with daily well-being, 2) well-being reported in a given daily diary predicted next-day value-based actions, and 3) greater variability in daily value-based actions was associated with marginally lower daily well-being and steepened increases in daily distress over time. • More daily value-based actions are related to greater daily psychological well-being. • More daily value-based actions are related to lower daily psychological distress. • Daily value-based actions are a stronger predictor than general value-based actions. • Greater daily psychological well-being predicts more next-day value-based actions. • More variability in daily value-based actions steepened distress increases over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Psychological acculturation' refers to the intra-individual change process resulting from sustained contact with a new culture, and has traditionally been researched by cross-cultural psychologists. As acculturation research has faced numerous critiques in recent years, this manuscript considers how insights from cultural psychology could help advance this field. Specifically, the three main features of the dominant acculturation conceptual framework ("what changes during acculturation", "how people acculturate", and "how well people adapt to acculturation") are reviewed and questioned in light of research findings and recent theoretical perspectives from cultural psychology. The approach to acculturation research articulated here views cultural engagement as plural, dynamic, tacit, and centered around the acquisition and flexible use of cultural schemas. By being attuned to their cultural environment, people typically and implicitly respond in culturally appropriate ways. This experience of "cultural fluency" is disrupted when people move to a new cultural environment. Acculturation consists of the creation and flexible use of new cultural schemas (development of multicultural mind) and of changes in people's self-positioning with respect to their different cultural traditions (development of multicultural self). In doing so, they re-establish "cultural fluency" in their new cultural environment, which also influences long-term adaptation by promoting cultural fit between people and their cultural environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Vancouver Index of Acculturation (VIA) is a self-report bidimensional instrument that has been employed in several cultural contexts to assess migrants' orientations toward mainstream and heritage traditions. Although it has shown good reliability and validity in the past, recent theoretical developments and empirical studies have suggested the VIA might assess more than two dimensions. Moreover, measurement invariance of this instrument across demographic subgroups has never been assessed before. With the aim of evaluating these psychometric issues, exploratory factor analysis and Rasch modeling were conducted on data from two samples of immigrants to Canada (N = 224) and to Italy (N = 266). Results supported the hypothesized two-factor structure, with Rasch modeling showing that items within a subscale differed in terms of "difficulty" in being endorsed, but still belonged to a single factor. Differential item functioning analysis results showed measurement invariance across gender, age and education subgroups. Most results converged across the two samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Laboratory-based studies show that intercultural interactions often cause people to feel stressed and anxious. However, we know fairly little about how intercultural interactions unfold outside of the laboratory. The present study examined associations between the proportion of daily intercultural interactions among 97 university students and their daily distress as well as daily well-being, using a 21-day end-of-day diary design. Overall, on days where participants had a larger proportion of intercultural interactions compared to their habitual level, they reported more psychological distress, with a small effect size. This association was similar for participants with majority status and for those with minority status. Daily proportion of intercultural interaction was unrelated to daily psychological well-being. We also observed no associations between daily intercultural interaction proportion and distress/well-being across days (using lagged analyses). This work extends laboratory-based findings that intercultural interactions are taxing to unstructured naturalistic settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives The current experiment was conducted among ice hockey fans, and brings together theories of intergroup relations and self and identity literature. It investigated if perceiving strong norms in favor of derogating against fans of outgroup teams, and engaging in these behaviors oneself, leads to an increased compartmentalization of these behaviors (i.e., such that they are restricted to a particular compartment within the self). This association was expected to be especially strong when derogatory behaviors are portrayed as illegitimate. We also explored whether this compartmentalization then flows on to vitality as a well-being indicator. Method and design Ice hockey fans supporting a diversity of NHL teams were recruited ( N = 116). The legitimacy of the derogatory behaviors was manipulated by making salient either: that these behaviors have harmful consequences for outgroup members (illegitimate condition) vs. that such behaviors can benefit the ingroup (legitimate condition). Results The expected mediated model was supported among the entire sample. The association between engaging in the derogatory behaviors and their compartmentalization in the self was also moderated by the experimental manipulation: While participants in the illegitimate condition reported a positive link between engaging in these behaviors and their compartmentalization, participants in the legitimate condition did not show a significant association between these variables, suggesting no need for them to restrict these behaviors within themselves. Conclusions Results are discussed in light of normative approaches, intergroup theories, and the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We argue that current acculturation research offers an incomplete picture of the psychological changes taking place in contemporary multicultural societies. Several characteristics of the Canadian multicultural context highlight the limitations in current acculturation research: namely, themes of hyper-diversity, hybridity, dimensionality and the importance of local context. Canada is a case in point, but these themes are generalizable to other contemporary multicultural contexts. To address the limitations of the traditional psychological acculturation paradigm, we propose an innovative research approach to study acculturation: the Cultural Day Reconstruction Method (C-DRM). We report on two studies that implemented this diary method, to demonstrate that this research tool (1) addresses theoretical critiques of current acculturation research and (2) captures some of the complexity of acculturation in contemporary multicultural contexts. The C-DRM was constructed in response to the local research environment but we hope it will become part of a new generation of tools for the contextual assessment of acculturation. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]