In cross-cultural psychology, one of the major sources of the development and display of
human behavior is the contact between cultural populations. Such intercultural contact …

Background: The achievement gap between immigrant and non-immigrant students that has
been identified in most OECD countries and the considerable educational dropout rate …

Cross-culturele psychologie is de studie van de relaties tussen menselijk gedrag en de
culturele context. In dit handboek komen alle vormen van gedrag aan bod, de belangrijkste …

Building upon existing measures, four new brief acculturation scales are presented,
measuring sociocultural adaptation, psychological adaptation, perceived cultural distance …

Compared to natives, immigrants have been reported to display either more (migration
morbidity) or fewer (immigrant paradox) adjustment problems. We examined these two …

The primary goal of this chapter is to propose such an integrative framework encompassing
developmental, acculturation, and social-psychological approaches to the study of individual …

Schools are important for the academic and socio-emotional development, as well as
acculturation of immigrant-and refugee-background youth. We highlight individual …

ABSTRACT A global challenge for developmental psychology is to better understand how
young people around the world make sense of their identities growing up in pluralistic …

Academic achievement in immigrant children and adolescents is an indicator of current and
future adaptive success. Since the future of immigrant youths is inextricably linked to that of …

The focus of this article is to present current progress in understanding the interplay among
adversity, physiological sensitivity to context, and adaptive functioning, with an emphasis on …