Interactive effects of personality and separation as acculturation style on adolescent antisocial behaviour
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Title: | Interactive effects of personality and separation as acculturation style on adolescent antisocial behaviour |
Author: | Sobral Fernández, Jorge Villar Torres, Paula Gómez Fraguela, Xosé Antón Romero Triñanes, Estrella Luengo Martín, María Ángeles |
Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Clínica e Psicobioloxía |
Subject: | Immigrants | Acculturation | Personality | Antisocial behavior | Ex post facto study | Inmigrantes | Aculturación | Personalidad | Conducta antisocial | Estudio ex post facto | |
Date of Issue: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Sobral, J., Villar, P., Gomez-Fraguela, J.A., Romero, E., & Luengo, M. (2013). Interactive effects of personality and separation as acculturation style on adolescent antisocial behaviour. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 13(1), 25-31. |
Abstract: | The primary aim of this study was to assess the interaction between personality and acculturation variables in predicting antisocial behaviour among adolescent immigrants living in Spain. Previous studies have shown that the acculturation style referred to as separation (rejection of the host country's culture, and a strong desire to preserve the culture of the country of origin) was strongly related to antisocial behaviour among immigrants. A further aim of this study was to examine if the relationship between separation and antisocial behaviour was moderated by personality variables, in particular impulsivity, sensation-seeking, and personal competence. Self-reported data of a sample of 750 adolescent immigrants living in Galicia's and Madrid's regions (Spain) were gathered using previously validated scales. The results revealed that both separation and personality variables were significantly related to antisocial behaviour. Moreover, hierarchical regression analysis with the interaction terms entered found significant moderating effects i.e., the relationship between separation and antisocial behaviour was significantly amplified when impulsivity or sensation-seeking were high. The results underscore the need to examine the effects of personality, acculturation, and the interaction between both on antisocial behaviour among adolescent immigrants Este trabajo tiene como principal objetivo estudiar cómo las variables de personalidad y la aculturación interactúan a la hora de predecir la conducta antisocial de adolescentes inmigrantes en España. Estudios previos mostraron que la estrategia aculturativa llamada separación (rechazo por la cultura de acogida, con un fuerte aprecio por la preservación de la de origen) es la más relacionada con la conducta antisocial inmigrante. Este estudio examina si esa relación está moderada por variables de personalidad, particularmente por la impulsividad, la búsqueda de sensaciones y la competencia personal. Para ello, a través de escalas auto-informadas, previamente validadas, se recogieron datos en una muestra de 750 adolescentes inmigrantes en Galicia y Madrid. Los resultados mostraron que tanto la separación como las variables de personalidad están significativamente asociadas a la conducta antisocial. Además, los análisis de regresión jerárquica, que incluyen términos de interacción, mostraron potentes efectos de moderación: la relación entre separación y conducta antisocial se amplifica notablemente cuando la impulsividad o la búsqueda de sensaciones son elevadas. Estos resultados alertan sobre la necesidad de estudiar los complejos efectos conjuntos entre personalidad y aculturación cuando se trata de explicar los problemas de adaptación en jóvenes inmigrantes |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S1697-2600(13)70004-8 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16659 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S1697-2600(13)70004-8 |
ISSN: | 1697-2600 |
Rights: | © 2012 Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual. Published by Elsevier España, S.L. This work is under a Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) |
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