A Pictogram Immigrant Acculturation Scale for children

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A Pictogram Immigrant Acculturation Scale for
children
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What do we want to address?

• Assess immigrant acculturation strategies amongst
  children.
• Verbal assessment too difficult
• Concepts too abstract
• Possible solution
• Translation of complex verbal questions into
  pictograms

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Pictogram elements
Shape, colour, size and number
Valence
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Pictogram elements
Multiple possiblities ...
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Pictogram elements
Concepts to be ecologically validated ...
SIT Perspective Acculturation orientation
interindividual
interpersonal
Segregation/Separation
intergroup
superordinate category
Integration
intergroup, stratified
Stratification
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.... elements can be used for testing theoretical
models. Our example Berry (1997) Immigrant
Acculturation Model
Is it considered to be of value to maintain ones
identity and characteristics?
yes no
Is it considered to be of value to maintain
relationships with the host majority?
yes no
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Procedure

• Data gathering will take place individually with
  the children.
• Presentation of the pictograms(paper, wood,
  computer)
• Assignment of pictograms to concepts

German children
Turkish children
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Procedure cont.

• Explanation of the concept of culture.
• Intercultural contact measure
• Culture maintenance measure

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Desire for contact
How would you like to...... play in the
playground?... play in your neighbourhood?...
play after school?... sit in the classroom?
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Cultural maintenance/loss
How would you like to be ...... in the
classroom?... at home?... at the
playground?... in the neighbourhood?
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Discussion

• Scale needs testing and validation (impulses by
  theory and research)
• The scale could be adopted to adress various
  other questions (e.g. host society,
  self-in/outgroup relation)

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Self/group distinction valence
Minority group
Selfcircle
Ingroup triangle
Outgroup square
Majority group
Ingroup square
Outgroup triangle
Selfcircle