Overview
Central to the experience of many adolescents is how they navigate between multiple cultural contexts in a pluralistic environment (Garcia Coll et al. 1996; Romero and Roberts 2003a; Stanton-Salazar and Spina 2003). Today’s youth may be encountering individuals from different cultures on a firsthand basis at earlier ages than ever before, given the globalized environments that youth are exposed to via transnational media and worldwide immigration (Arnett 2002; Zagefka and Brown 2002). When adolescents encounter bicultural contexts, they may experience unique and interesting new social interactions and fusions; however, these multiple cultural contexts also shape the experience of stress. Bicultural contexts will impact adolescents’ types of stress, appraisal of stress, and coping mechanisms (Aldwin 1994; Donnelly 2002; Walters and Simoni 2002). The bicultural context of stress describes how different cultural environments may be subjectively perceived by individuals to be...
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Romero, A.J., Campen, K.V. (2011). Bicultural Stress. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_158
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