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Bierwiaczonek, K., Waldzus, S. & van Oudenhoven-van der Zee, K. (2015). Social Stressors, Socially-Based Coping Resources and Multi-Cultural Personality. Their Role and Interactions in Cross-Cultural Adaptation. XI PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology.

K. M. Bierwiaczonek et al.,  "Social Stressors, Socially-Based Coping Resources and Multi-Cultural Personality. Their Role and Interactions in Cross-Cultural Adaptation", in XI PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology, Lisbon, 2015

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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Social Stressors, Socially-Based Coping Resources and Multi-Cultural Personality. Their Role and Interactions in Cross-Cultural Adaptation
T2  - XI PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology
AU  - Bierwiaczonek, K.
AU  - Waldzus, S.
AU  - van Oudenhoven-van der Zee, K.
PY  - 2015
CY  - Lisbon
AB  - Living outside one's home country is stressful. One important source of stress for the sojourner is the host society, with its
unfamiliar cultural norms and not always friendly attitudes toward foreigners. Previous research suggests that perceptions of
different kinds of threat coming from the host society (e.g., perceived discrimination) have a detrimental effect on sojourner
adaptation and, indirectly, on its distal effects such as work outcomes. Therefore, social stressors may constitute an obstacle in
realizing sojourners' potential within this society. However, in line with the stress and coping literature, their effect may be buffered
by available coping resources, both socially-based (e.g., social support) and internal to the sojourner (e.g. multi-cultural
personality). The current study examines the role of three social stressors (perceived discrimination, perceived prejudice and
symbolic threat) in cross-cultural adaptation of international students, as well as their interactions with multi-cultural personality
traits and with social factors known to act as coping resources in other contexts (social status, social support, social identification
with minority group and attributions to prejudice). Two hundred and twenty international students, mostly European and
participating in international exchanges, responded to an online questionnaire. As expected, adaptation was related negatively to
all three examined social stressors, and positively to socially-based coping resources and to multi-cultural personality. Moreover,
several moderation effects were found. High identification with the group of foreign students buffered the effect of perceived
discrimination on both psychological and socio-cultural adaptation, and the effect of symbolic threat was significantly weaker in
students with lower attributions to prejudice. Finally, only students low on open-mindedness reported worse adaptation when they
lacked contact with host nationals. The results of our study suggest that applying models from social psychology (e.g., Integrated
Threat Theory; rejection-identification model) in cross-cultural adaptation research may contribute tremendously to the
understanding of this phenomenon
ER  -