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

在我的研究中，我将专注于社区和人际社会背景如何影响移民的生理失调和心理健康。在世界范围内，大约有2.5亿人生活在他们的出生国之外（Connor, 2016），因此了解移民和文化适应如何促进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有多少层社会背景影响移民的适应，但这些影响仍然需要在整个生命过程中考虑与生物功能相关的因素（Ward & Geeraert, 2016）。文化适应是与多个文化群体接触并适应他们的行为、态度和身份的过程（geeraert&demoulin, 2013）。第一代移民往往会适应他们所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的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 et al., 2020; Ward & Geeraert, 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。在本建议中，“移徙者”应指第一代和第二代移徙者，“移民”应指由于非正式寻求庇护的原因而居住在定居国的第一代移徙者。异文化压力源是移民和少数群体由于处于两种文化群体的交叉点而经历的压力源。当文化适应程度低的个体在特定的社会情境中没有发展出文化上适当的自动反应时，一些异文化压力源会更频繁地发生。然而，其他异文化压力源，如家庭压力源，是由一个人的社会群体之间的文化适应差异造成的（Sun et al., 2020）。异文化压力源还可能涉及歧视经历，并可能导致心理困扰（Sirin et al., 2013）。

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).