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Nostalgia for host culture facilitates repatriation success: the role of self-continuity

Nostalgia for host culture facilitates repatriation success: the role of self-continuity
Nostalgia for host culture facilitates repatriation success: the role of self-continuity
Repatriation (returning home after having lived abroad) can be psychologically distressing. We theorized and found evidence that feeling nostalgic about a host culture contributes to repatriation success. We tested a sample of over 700 international teachers who worked in the United States (host culture) and then returned to their home countries. As hypothesized, nostalgia for the host culture was positively associated with repatriates’ self-continuity (a sense of connection between one’s past and present selves). Self-continuity, in turn, mediated the positive relation between host-culture nostalgia and psychological adjustment (self-esteem, approach motivation, job satisfaction). The findings have implications for the literatures on (a) multicultural experience and repatriation, and (b) the emotion of nostalgia and its relation to psychological adjustment.
1529-8868
327-342
Zou, X
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Wildschut, Robert
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Zou, X, Cable, D, Wildschut, Robert and Sedikides, Constantine (2018) Nostalgia for host culture facilitates repatriation success: the role of self-continuity. Self and Identity, 327-342. (doi:10.1080/15298868.2017.1378123).

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Abstract

Repatriation (returning home after having lived abroad) can be psychologically distressing. We theorized and found evidence that feeling nostalgic about a host culture contributes to repatriation success. We tested a sample of over 700 international teachers who worked in the United States (host culture) and then returned to their home countries. As hypothesized, nostalgia for the host culture was positively associated with repatriates’ self-continuity (a sense of connection between one’s past and present selves). Self-continuity, in turn, mediated the positive relation between host-culture nostalgia and psychological adjustment (self-esteem, approach motivation, job satisfaction). The findings have implications for the literatures on (a) multicultural experience and repatriation, and (b) the emotion of nostalgia and its relation to psychological adjustment.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 September 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 March 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 413823
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413823
ISSN: 1529-8868
PURE UUID: b3ed8eb4-77e3-4402-89a4-6fb9a1119743
ORCID for Robert Wildschut: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6499-5487
ORCID for Constantine Sedikides: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-889X

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Date deposited: 07 Sep 2017 16:31
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:42

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Author: X Zou
Author: D Cable

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