The Influence of Culture of Honor and Emotional Intelligence in the Acculturation of Moroccan Immigrant Women

Migration is a normal process of people seeking new opportunities, work, or leisure in societies. The way people adapt to a new country (acculturation) is a complex process in which immigrants’ evaluations about the culture of origin and their perceptions of the host country interact. The combinatio...

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Published in:The Spanish journal of psychology 2014-01, Vol.17, p.E49-E49, Article E49
Main Authors: Lopez-Zafra, Esther, El Ghoudani, Karima
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acculturation
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Assimilation
Attitudes
Culture
Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology
Emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence - physiology
Female
Host country
Humans
Immigrants
Leisure
Marginality
Middle Aged
Migrants
Minority & ethnic groups
Morals
Morocco - ethnology
Psychology
Social exclusion
Social, Educational and Work Psychology
Society
Spain - ethnology
Traditions
Variables
Women
Young Adult
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Summary:Migration is a normal process of people seeking new opportunities, work, or leisure in societies. The way people adapt to a new country (acculturation) is a complex process in which immigrants’ evaluations about the culture of origin and their perceptions of the host country interact. The combination of these two factors produces four types of acculturation: separation, assimilation, integration, and marginalization. Several variables, such as personality, attitudes, and emotional intelligence, have been studied to help explain this process. However, the impact of a culture of honor and its interaction with other variables remains an open question that may help to explain how migrants can better adjust to their host culture. In this study, we examine the influence of the culture of honor (social) and emotional intelligence (individual) on acculturation. In a sample of 129 Moroccan women (mean age = 29, SD = 9.40) immigrants in Spain (mean time in Spain = 6 years, SD = 3.60), we investigated the relations among the variables of interest. Our results show that no significant differences emerged in the scores given for culture of honor (CH) and the acculturation strategies of the Moroccan immigrant women F(3, 99) = .233; p = .87. However women who preferred the integration strategy scored highest on emotional intelligence (EI), whereas the assimilated immigrants showed the lowest scores for EI F(3, 92) = 4.63; p = .005. Additionally, only in the case of integration does EI mediate between CH and the value given to the immigrant’s own and host cultures (p
ISSN:1138-7416
1988-2904
DOI:10.1017/sjp.2014.53