Define acculturative stress. How can society help minority adolescents resolve identity conflicts constructively?
What will be an ideal response?
In many immigrant families from collectivist cultures, adolescents' commitment to obeying their parents and fulfilling family obligations lessens the longer the family has been in the immigrant-receiving country—a circumstance that induces acculturative stress, psychological distress resulting from conflict between the minority and the host culture.
Society can help adolescents resolve identity conflicts constructively by:
- Promoting effective parenting, in which children and adolescents benefit from family ethnic pride yet are encouraged to explore the meaning of ethnicity in their own lives.
- Ensuring that schools respect minority youths' native languages, unique learning styles, and right to high-quality education.
- Fostering contact with peers of the same ethnicity, along with respect between ethnic groups.
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