I have examined the impact of formal (Chinese medium) education on indigenous Tibetans. Although I did not look at stress I was able to conclude that Tibetan youth had become alienated from their culture, beliefs and place. I used psychometric pair scaling and multi-dimensional scaling.to plot the results.

Do get back to me if you need more 

Dr John Studley

Hi Cristiano,

There are quite a few studies conducted in the US however the methods and findings can be adapted to as they deal with immigrant groups in general. The following list addresses adolescents, there are very few studies addressing adults am afraid.

Saldaina (1994) Acculturative stress, minority status and distress

Schwartz, et al (2006) Nativity and years in receiving culture as markers of acculturation in ethnic enclaves

Anything from Phinney, J. will lead to ethnic identity and acculturation (acculturative stress).

Berry (1997) Immigration, acculturation and adaptation

Berry et al., (1987) Comparative studies of acculturative stress (a bit old but good overview)

Hope these help to get you started.

Kind regards,

Veronica Cano, PhD

check  out my article on intercultural sensitivity and ethnic background please .

find the file attached .

There are many many studies on this issue and yes, including adults-- going back to the 1970s, when I myself began researching this topic. Most of my work focused on Latinos/Hispanics, but also Vietnamese.  There is a quadrant that was used very often (4x4) showing that highly acculturated and marginalized (little or no acculturation) caused the most stress and both of these were related to self-identity. 

What you need to do is a heavy literature review and select what is most relevant to your own work, as daunting as it might seem, this is necessary.

Also, some of the studies on adults look at, define  "stress" as a psychological or mental health/mental illness issue, so that becomes the defined factor.

Good Luck.

Moreover, the dichotomous categorization of ethnocentism vs ethnorelativism  as well  as emic vs etic approaches to cultural differences could provide some insights I reckon. 

check out my use of the concept of antagonism as the foundation of inter-communal identifications: all the following are available on the Research Gate site.

Bowman, Glenn 1994. "'A Country of Words': Conceiving the Palestinian Nation from the Position of Exile" in The Making of Political Identities. ed. Ernesto Laclau, 138-70. London: Verso.

--- 2001. "The Violence in Identity" in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict. eds. Bettina Schmidt & Ingo Schroeder, 25-46. London: Routledge.

--- 2003 "Constitutive Violence and the Nationalist Imaginary: Antagonism and Defensive Solidarity in 'Palestine' and 'Former Yugoslavia'". Social Anthropology XI: 3, 319-40.

--- 2006. "A Death Revisited: Solidarity and Dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian Community" in Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. eds. Ussama Makdisi & Paul Silverstein, 27-49. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

--- 2012. "Nationalizing and Denationalizing the Sacred: Shrines and Shifting Identities in the Israeli-Occupied Territories" in Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine: Religion and Politics. eds. Yitzhak Reiter, Marshall Breger & Leonard Hammer, 195-227. London and New York: Routledge.

--- 2014 "Violence before Identity: an Analysis of Identity Politics". The Sociological Review 62: S2, 152-65.

Dear All many thanks for your replies and for your suggestions. I do know well the acculturation framework and I'm actually involved in a collaborative project with John Berry. I'm also aware of Phinney's work. Starting from her work we started a study and we wrote a paper on the relationships between ethnic identity's exploration and commitment, intergroup attitudes and acculturative stress among early adolescent Tunisians. The paper is actually under review. A referee asked us to improve  the references about the links between exploration, commitment and acculturative stress but I'm not able to find specific studies about this. We drew our hypotheses from the acculturation literature but the referee says that are more specific studies about this topic. Many thanks again

Hello

I don't know a specific study, but many studies that examined acculturation stress emphasize the culture identity. As long as immigrants from different culture will try to maintain their original culture identity, they will suffer from higher levels of acculturation stree,

Thanks Arnon, it was our hypothesis too, especially that commitment would be associated with acculturative stress. We  also found that intergroup attitudes mediate this relationship.

There are many studies that show extreme acculturation leads to stress, as much as does none at all.  At least in the US, especially for non-whites, maintaining some ties to one's culture vis-a-vis self-identity, is actually a protective factor. In fact, total acculturation leads to denial of one's culture/identity and self-hate, which leads to high levels of stress.

These studies support the view of the benefits of biculturalism: one neither holds on to one's culture, nor does one totally abandon it..  One well-known researcher who comes to mind is Joseph Szapotnic.

Hello

In addition, Ethiopian immigrants men in Israel, suffered many stresses including dispair, suicidal behaviors, IPH and so on.

Perhaps my two studies on cultural insensitivity and international students' invisibility can shed some light on your topic:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275963351_Workforce_Education_and_Development_%28WED%29_Graduate_Students%27_Perceptions_of_Cultural_Insensitivity_in_Classroom_Teaching_-_A_Mixed_Methods_Study

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263045894_Generation_I_International_and_invisible_in_a_workforce_education_and_development_graduate_programme_content

Many thanks,

Debra

Data Generation I: International and invisible in a workforce edu...

Cristiano, There is wealth of research on this specific issue going back to the 80, and 90s (and continuing to current research that includes ethnicity of more recent immigrants). that looks at acculturative stress and ethnic identity among Latino adolescents, (including suicide) specifically Cuban adolescent and Mexican adolescents.  I myself worked in that area.  Off the top of my head, I cannot remember names of authors (it was long ago), but I am sure a lit review using those terms will yield many articles.

In addition, some measures have been developed on both cultural identity and acculturative stress.

Good luck

MHC

Hi Cristiano,

As Mary-Helen has commented, there is a myriad of studies relating to ethnic identity and acculturative stress. However, I noticed that your question is more focussed on the stages of ethnic identity development and its relation to stressors.

Listed below are some of the authors I have cited in the past with relation to this research focus:

• Phinney, J.
• Rogler, L.H.
• Cortes, D.E.
• Malgady, R.G.
• Lang, G.L.
• Liebkind, K.

Best wishes,

Nyrie.

Sometimes, a general lit review  can (or must be done) to get at the specific, more focused issues, such as what you are looking for, especially since one study or one researcher may do more than that; case in point, I recognize the names of the first 4 authors.and did make use of their work and findings. Also, some of the  measures available do address those specifics.