Social Psychology

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This paper provides a social psychology study that employs instruments of Asian acculturation and intergenerational conflict to indicate tendencies in a Toronto sample of 129 Canadian Korean university students at York University and the University of Toronto. The paper describes the qualitative material that explains findings that pertain to low or high acculturation as well as bi-cultural students and records how most subjects were low or bi-cultural with an average time in Canada of 12.5 years. The paper includes a critical commentary on both instruments for all Asian conceptualization and university bias.

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This study examines the relationship between acculturation and intergenerational conflict in 129 Korean-Canadian university students, noting gender differences. The SL-ASIA instrument was used to assess acculturation according to North American as opposed to Asian values and identity. The Intergenerational Conflict Inventory (ICI) assessed family expectation, education and career and dating and marriage, as sources of intergenerational conflict, in a new Canadian community of altering values. Many Asian immigrant families struggle with adjustments involving collectivism versus individualism and two processes occur, in adult cultural retention and children's adoption of the Canadian culture to which they are exposed.

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