Meeting the expectations of your heritage culture: Links between attachment orientations, intragroup marginalization and psychological adjustment

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Ferenczi, Nelli and Marshall, Tara C.. 2016. Meeting the expectations of your heritage culture: Links between attachment orientations, intragroup marginalization and psychological adjustment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33(1), pp. 101-121. ISSN 0265-4075 [Article]

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Do insecurely attached individuals perceive greater rejection from their heritage culture? Few studies have examined the antecedents and outcomes of this perceived rejection – termed intragroup marginalization – in spite of its implications for the adjustment of cultural migrants to the mainstream culture. This study investigated whether anxious and avoidant attachment orientations among cultural migrants were associated with greater intragroup marginalization and, in turn, with lower subjective well-being and flourishing and higher acculturative stress. Anxious attachment was associated with heightened intragroup marginalization from friends and, in turn, with increased acculturative stress; anxious attachment was also associated with increased intragroup marginalization from family. Avoidant attachment was linked with increased intragroup marginalization from family and, in turn, with decreased subjective well-being.

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https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407514562565