The Impact of Acculturation Stress on Bicultural Acceptance Attitudes in Multicultural Adolescents: Focusing on the Mediating Effect Social Support

This study aims to investigate the relationship between acculturative stress and social support influencing bicultural acceptance attitudes among adolescents from multicultural families. Additionally, it seeks to examine the mediating effect of social support on the relationship between acculturative stress and bicultural acceptance attitudes. The study used data from the second wave of the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study (MAPS) conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute of Korea. The research results are as follows. First, there was a significant correlation between acculturation stress, social support(r=-.639), and bicultural acceptance attitudes(r=-.457). Second, the mediating effect of social support on the relationship between acculturative stress and bicultural acceptance attitudes was confirmed(β=.598). Finally, the implications of this study and directions for future research were discussed.