Neighbourhood Sociocultural Context and Acculturation Across the Life Course: Consequences for Physiological Dysregulation and Psychological Health

在我的研究中，我将重点研究邻里和人际社会环境如何影响移民的生理失调和心理健康。全球约有2.5亿人生活在出生国以外(Connor，2016)，因此了解移民和文化适应如何有助于影响整个生命过程中健康的社会条件是很重要的。跨文化心理学家已经考虑了多少层面的社会背景影响移民的适应，但这些影响仍然需要从整个生命过程中的生物功能来考虑(Ward&Geerairt，2016)。适应是与多种文化群体接触并适应他们的行为、态度和身份的过程(Geerairt&Demoulin，2013)。第一代移民经常适应他们定居国家的主流文化，这就是他们的定居文化。然而，对他们来说，保持和发展他们或他们祖先成长的国家的文化特征也很重要，这是他们的遗产文化(Sun等人，2020；Ward&Geerairt，2016)。第一代移民是移居到另一个国家的个人，第二代移民是他们的孩子。在这项提案中，“移民”指的是第一代和第二代移民，“移民”指的是居住在其居住国的第一代移民，他们不是出于正式寻求庇护的原因。文化压力源是指移民和少数群体由于处于两个文化群体的交汇点而感受到的压力。对于文化适应程度较低的个体来说，当他们没有对特定社会情景产生文化上适当的自动反应时，一些文化适应应激源发生得更频繁。然而，其他文化适应应激源，如家庭应激源，则是由于一个社会群体之间的文化适应差异造成的(Sun等人，2020)。文化适应应激源还可能涉及歧视经历，并可能导致心理痛苦(Sirin等人，2013年)。

For my research I will focus on how neighbourhood and interpersonal social contexts influence physiological dysregulation and psychological health in migrants Worldwide, approximately 250,000,000 people live outside their country of birth (Connor, 2016) so it is important to understand how migration and cultural adaptation contribute to the social conditions that influence health throughout the life course. Cross-cultural psychologists have considered how many layers of social context influence migrants' adaptation, but these effects still need to be considered in relation to biological functioning across the life course (Ward & Geeraert, 2016).Acculturation is the process of engaging with multiple cultural groups and adapting to their behaviours, attitudes, and identities (Geeraert & Demoulin, 2013). First-generation migrants often acculturate to the mainstream culture of the country they settle in, which is their settlement culture. However, it can also be important for them to maintain and develop the cultural characteristics of the country they or their ancestors grew up in, which is their heritage culture (Sun et al., 2020; Ward & Geeraert, 2016). First-generation migrants are individuals who have moved to another country and second-generation migrants are their children. In this proposal, 'migrants' shall refer to first- and second-generation migrants, and 'immigrants' shall refer to first-generation migrants who live in their settlement country for a reason other than formally seeking asylum.Acculturative stressors are stressors that migrants and minority groups experience as a result of being at the intersection between two cultural groups. Some acculturative stressors occur more frequently for individuals with low acculturation when they have not developed culturally appropriate automatic responses for particular social situations. However, other acculturative stressors, such as family stressors, result from differences in the acculturation amongst one's social group (Sun et al., 2020). Acculturative stressors can also involve experiences of discrimination and can lead to psychological distress (Sirin et al., 2013).