Comparing two models

Relative Acculturation
Extended Model (RAEM) VS Arends-Toth and Van de
Vijver Acculturation Model

Melisa Alejandra Aké Cano

Litzy Ixch’el Balam Yam
 Relative Acculturation
Extended Model (RAEM)
RAEM contributions:
The consideration of the acculturation
strategies of the immigrant group and
the autochthonous population, since it
is the confluence of the strategies of
both groups that can give rise to the
inter-group relationship.
The differentiation of various immigrant
groups by ethnocultural origin
A number of psychosocial variables and
several behaviour indicators to check
their predictive abilitiy and modulating
influence on the acculturation attitudes.
Differentiation between preferences
(ideal level), and strategies or
perceptions (actual level) of
acculturation.
In the RAEM adaptation process is
complex (different options can be
preferred and adopted at the same
time) and relative, since the same
strategies are not always used or the
same options preferred when the
interaction with other cultures takes
place in different domains
The RAEM is distinguished by eight
socio-cultural domains: from the most
public (political and governmental,
social welfare, ways of working),
through the central ones (consumption
habits and domestic economy, social
relations), to the most private ones
(family relations, religious beliefs and
practices, and values).
Arends-Toth and Van de Vijver
Acculturation Model (2006)
The authors refer to the results of
acculturation, where the consequences
of the acculturation process are
indicated, such as moods, psychological
disorders, job performance or the natura
and extent of contact.
The set of variables referring to
acculturation conditions are found,
where the conceptual limits are
indicated. In this section, the general
characteristics of the host and origin
society must be taken into account.
The authors consider the orientations of
acculturation, these variables refer to
how immigrants are combined in the
culture of origin and host, that ir, the
relationship of the dimensions raisd by
Berry (1997)
In studies related to the acculturation
process, Arends-Tóth and Van de Vijver
(2006) propose that it is essential to
consider certain sets of variables that must
be addressed in research carried out on
psychological acculturations; the authors
group them into three groups.
 Difference
RAEM considers the process of acculturation as the relative and selective synthesis or adaptation that
a person makes between their culture of origin and the host culture in each of the aforementioned
fields, taking or rejecting the components of both cultures with different magnitude depending on the
field (Navas and Rojas, 2010). However, Arends-Toth and Van de Vijver Acculturation Model
explains acculturation from a multidimensional approach involving the individual in terms of his or her
conditions (personal characteristics ), outcomes and orientations of acculturation.

References
López L., Ordóñez J., Sánchez M. & Rojas J. (2020) Validation of the theoretical structure of the socio- cultural
domains of the Relative Acculturation Extended Model. Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios. Vol.
10(2), pp. 01-19.

Ramirez M. (2017) EL PROCESO DE ADAPTACIÓN SOCIOCULTURAL: UN MODELO SOCIOCOGNITIVO DE

ACULTURACIÓN. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE MIGRACIONES.
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