Taking a mutuality approach to acculturation, we aim to provide robust data on the acculturation process of refugees, an understudied group in the field. The present project consists of two studies. Study 1 examined the social-psychological factors associated with the adaptation of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Building on the mutuality approach to acculturation, it considered both the role of refugees’ acculturation orientations towards culture maintenance and contact with the Turkish society, refugees’ meta-perceived acculturation orientations of the Turkish host society, and the impact of perceived (dis)concordance of acculturation orientations and perceived identity threat (i.e., discrimination) on their psychological and sociocultural adaptation. One hundred and nine Syrian refugees in Turkey completed a questionnaire measuring the variables of interest. Contrary to the expected, own culture maintenance was negatively related to psychological adaptation, whereas own desire for contact was not associated with sociocultural adaptation. Refugees’ perceived acculturation orientations from Turkish society, particularly perceived desire for contact, were positively related to psychological and sociocultural adaptation. Finally, perceived discordance of acculturation was negatively associated with psychological and sociocultural adaptation and positively related to perceived discrimination. Study 2 consists of a meta-analysis, includes 35 studies that quantitatively measured perceived discrimination, acculturation orientations, and cross-cultural adaptation among refugees and immigrants. The goal is to test (a) how strongly these variables are related across the literature and (b) whether their mutual relationships can be captured by a mediation model. Data are currently under analysis, relying on.robust variance estimation and meta-analytical structural equation models.

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