Immigrants’ Leisure Participation and Acculturative Stress Management: The Mediating Effect of Community Embeddedness
Keywords:
leisure participation; immigrants; acculturative stress; community embeddedness
Abstract
The increasing trend of migration has driven studies from multiple perspectives including the conceptual lens of their mobility and professional activities Another important dimension of immigrants settlement is the role of leisure participation One issue in immigrants settlement is acculturative stress an issue related to the difficulties immigrants face in their adjustment to the lifestyle of their host country This paper explores the role of leisure participation by investigating a mediating effect of community embeddedness which assists immigrants to manage acculturative stress Community embeddedness enables immigrants to adjust and develop emotional and functional connections to their new community and fosters their social integration This mediator is likely to be related to leisure participation Mediated regression analysis confirmed that leisure participation lessened two components of acculturative stress immigrants not feeling at home and perceived discrimination when mediated by community embeddedness Immigrants leisure participation also had a positive significant direct relationship with community embeddedness suggesting that encouraging immigrants to participate in leisure activities is one way to build their sense of belonging in their new local community These results suggest a means for future research to explain how leisure participation may assist immigrants to adjust to their new location Such a framework has implications for leisure industry management
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2020-10-15
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