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. 2024 Oct;63(4):1701-1724.
doi: 10.1111/bjso.12751. Epub 2024 Apr 16.

Honour, acculturation and well-being: Evidence from the UK and Canada

Ayse K Uskul  1 , Jorida Cila  2 , Pelin Gul  3 , Alexander Kirchner-Häusler  1 , Barbora Hubená  4
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Honour, acculturation and well-being: Evidence from the UK and Canada

Ayse K Uskul et al. Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Oct.

Abstract

Adopting a social psychological approach, across three studies (N = 927) in two western immigrant-receiving societies (UK and Canada), we examined the role of honour in acculturation variables (i.e., immigrants' heritage and mainstream cultural orientation and well-being), controlling for some of the commonly studied predictors of immigrant adaptation. We assessed honour as concern (Studies 1 and 2) and as a desired attribute for men and women (Study 3) and studied well-being in terms of acculturative stress (Study 1) and subjective evaluation of one's life (Studies 1 and 3). We examined our questions among groups of immigrants originating from honour (Studies 1 and 2) and dignity cultural groups (Study 1) and from first- and second-generation immigrants (Study 3). Overall, despite some significant associations at the bivariate level between honour and acculturation outcomes, findings provided mixed support for the claim that honour (measured as concerns and cultural codes) plays a significant role in immigrant acculturation above and beyond commonly studied predictors of immigrant adaptation.

Keywords: Canada; UK; cultural orientation; honour; immigrants; well‐being.

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