Cultural Diversity Climate and Psychological Adjustment at School-Equality and Inclusion Versus Cultural Pluralism
- The present study is concerned with cultural diversity climate at school and how it relates to acculturation orientations and psychological school adjustment of early adolescent immigrants. Specifically, the distinct role of two types of diversity policy is investigated, namely (a) fostering equality and inclusion and (b) acknowledging cultural pluralism. Longitudinal multilevel analyses based on 386 early adolescent immigrant students (M-age=10.49years) in 44 ethnically heterogeneous classrooms in Germany revealed that the manifestations of both types of policies promote psychological school adjustment (i.e., better well-being and fewer psychological and behavioral problems) at the individual level. However, they differ in their effects on acculturation orientations. At the classroom level, equality and inclusion promote assimilation. Implications for research and educational practice are discussed.
Author details: | Maja Katharina SchachnerORCiDGND, Peter NoackGND, Fons J. R. Van de VijverORCiDGND, Katharina Eckstein |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12536 |
ISSN: | 0009-3920 |
ISSN: | 1467-8624 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27091829 |
Title of parent work (English): | Child development |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Place of publishing: | Hoboken |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
Volume: | 87 |
Number of pages: | 17 |
First page: | 1175 |
Last Page: | 1191 |
Funding institution: | federal program "ProExzellenz" of the Free State of Thuringia; Graduate School of Human Behavior in Social and Economic Change at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Profilbereich Bildungswissenschaften |