主管单位：中国科学技术协会
主办单位：中国地理学会
承办单位：华东师范大学
世界地理研究

世界地理研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (5): 929-938.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2020.05.2018580

• 世界政治与经济 • 上一篇    下一篇

中国旅居者文化融入及对生活质量的影响

丛艳国1(), Hunt Dexter2, 黄铎3, 魏立华3   

  1. 1.华南农业大学林学与风景园林学院，广州 510642
    2.伯明翰大学土木工程系，英国 伯明翰
    3.华南理工大学建筑学院，广州 510642
  • 收稿日期:2018-12-18 修回日期:2019-04-30 出版日期:2020-09-30 发布日期:2020-09-11
  • 作者简介:丛艳国（1976-），女，副教授，博士，硕士生导师，研究方向为文化地理及区域持续发展，E-mail：cym304@scau.edu.cn。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(41101147);广东省科技计划项目(2019A101002046)

Acculturation and subject well-being of Chinese sojourners in Birmingham, UK

Yanguo CONG1(), Hunt Dexter2, Duo HUANG3, Lihua WEI3   

  1. 1.College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 501642, China
    2.Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
    3.School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510642, China
  • Received:2018-12-18 Revised:2019-04-30 Online:2020-09-30 Published:2020-09-11

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摘要：

文化融入是文化地理研究的重要内容。本文以英国伯明翰市中国旅居群体为例，着重探求文化融入与生活质量间的耦合关联。研究发现，生活质量与英国文化融入呈正相关关系，相关系数为0.286，与国际认可的Ward系数基本吻合；在文化融入的众多指标中，“与本地居民交往”对生活质量的影响最为突出。中国旅居群体在伯明翰的文化融入状况处于从“基本生存”向“身份认同”转化的过渡期，希望与本地居民交往并得到认可与尊敬，但是这种需求远远没有实现，致使整体生活满意度偏低。为了缓解文化冲击带来的焦虑，中国旅居者特别是“分离”等类型的群体十分依赖中国文化并从中寻求各种支持，表现为居住的集聚及族裔经济的繁荣。但研究表明，对母国文化身份的坚守与生活质量提升并无直接关联；而“整合”与“同化”人群英国文化融入的行为性和实践性等方面较强的情况下，生活质量比较高。

关键词: 旅居, 文化融入, 生活质量, 伯明翰, 英国

Abstract:

In recent years, along with the rapid development of globalization, international sojourn has become a universal phenomenon. International sojourners will experience culture shock when they move to a new place with different culture. The more shock they encountered the more anxious they will feel. Cultural shock can be measured by acculturation. This study aimed to explore the relationship between acculturation and Subject Well-Being. A review of relevant literature explores that acculturation is Bidimensional. That means acculturation is included both host cultural and home cultural orientation. One hundred and twenty six sojourners in Birmingham who were from the People’s Republic of China completed questionnaires, which assessed three dimensions including host-national identification (HNI) co-national identification (CNI) and Subjective Well-being (SWB).There were no many barriers about language and customs in sojourners’ lives. Though they were keen to contact with natives theses aims are not fulfilled at all. In fact, they live together with Chinese and always accompanied by Chinese. HNI and CNI were measured separately and found that the score of acculturation to host culture are lower than the score of belonging to home culture. What is more, there was no significant correlation between HNI and CNI. Then host and co-national identity scores were subjected to a median split, and 2×2 analyses of variance were performed. In this case, four modes of acculturation strategies including integration, separation, assimilation and marginalization were divided. Subjects with strong host national identification experienced less sociocultural adjustment difficulties. In another words, respondents who endorsed separatist and marginalizatist experienced the greater amount of social difficulty. General measures of Subject Well-being were correlated with host acculturation and urban livability of Birmingham. Feeling “more” Englishman, the more like with Birmingham and the higher levels of satisfaction. These results of positively correlated between acculturation and SWB extended and offered empirical evidence for Ward’s theory. Further, Step-wise regression analysis suggested that only the contact with host nationals was important predictor of positive affect with life satisfaction.

Key words: sojourner, acculturation, subjective well-being, Birmingham, UK