Todorut, Anda (2022) The Interaction Effect of Goal Attainment and Goal Importance on Acculturation. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Setting steps into exploring relatively new grounds, our current paper aims to investigate and contribute to understanding the relationship between goal attainment, goal importance, and acculturation. Preceding research converges towards supporting the positive contribution of goal attainment to the process of acculturation. Simultaneously, goal importance seems to affect acculturation as well. We posit that there is a positive relationship between the attainment of goals and acculturation. Furthermore, we hypothesize that importance of goals moderates this relationship. Our mixed-method research used Grounded Theory methodology to build and structure the respondents’ goal content. We conducted a regression analysis on a sample of 289 Central and East European migrants residing in the United Kingdom. The resulted goal categories were achievement, basic human striving, migration, personal development, professional, relationship, and security. As a result of the analysis, we replicated previous findings for six categories in the goal attainment-acculturation relationship and therefore confirmed our first hypothesis. The second hypothesis was confirmed solely in the professional category, with marginally significant interaction results. We further discuss the implications of our findings and address future directions for research. Keywords: acculturation, migration, goal attainment, goal importance
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Toth-Bos, A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Psychology (CP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2022 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2022 14:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/91 |
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