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Events & conferences > MYD Seminar series > Identity, Acculturation and Adaptation in Migrant Youth
Identity, Acculturation and Adaptation in Migrant Youth
On 29 May 2007, Professor Colleen Ward, Director of the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research and Professor at the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington discussed some key findings from a study of almost 1,600 New Zealand youth, including over 900 migrant and ethnic youth.
Three research questions which were considered:
1) How do migrant youth deal with living within and between two cultures?
2) How well do migrant youth adapt? and
3) How do the intercultural strategies migrant youth employ relate to overall adaptation?
Professor Ward is a native of New Orleans and received her Ph.D from
the University of Durham, England. She has since held research and/or
teaching positions at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, the
Science University of Malaysia, the National University of Singapore,
Canterbury University and most recently Victoria University.
She is the
former Secretary General of the International Association for
Cross-Cultural Psychology and will assume the roles of President of the
Asian Association of Social Psychology and Vice President of the
International Academy of Intercultural Research in 2005. Professor Ward's
research speciality is in cross-cultural psychology with particular
expertise in acculturation.
More Information
Professor Ward's presentation is available to download under the "Related documents" heading below.
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