Acculturation Orientation, Adult Attachment and Multicultural Personality of Future Psychologists

Despite the recommendations of the Psychology Societies around the world, academic psychology programs leave little room for diversity issues. One step toward more appropriate pedagogical content is to identify how psychology students view diversity. Three psychological variables appear central to the understanding of the relationship to Otherness. This study thus explores acculturation orientations, adult attachment and multicultural personality (MP) of psychology student just before their internship. Method Three hundred and ninety-seven students in the final year of the Master of Psychology at Bordeaux University (France) have been solicited to complete an online questionnaire consisting of a sociodemographic section, the Acculturation Scale of the Host Community (ASHC; Bourhis & Bougie, 1998), the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS; Collins & Read, 1990) and the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ; Van der Zee, Van Oudenhoven, Ponterotto & Fietzer, 2013). It is expected that secure students adopt more favorable acculturation orientations towards migrants than the insecure ones; that MP predict positively a favorable acculturation orientation towards migrants; and that the secure students have also higher scores on MP than insecure ones. Analysis, through mean comparisons and regressions, and interpretation of results is ongoing.