Cultural Communication Competence and Psychological Adjustment: A Study of Chinese Immigrant Children’s Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Canada

This study looks at psychological adjustment and cultural communication in immigrant families. It concludes that the adolescents’ host communication competence correlated negatively with psychological problems, and their native communication competence was nonsignificantly associated with psychological problems. Interactions between adolescents’ host and native communication competence and parents’ host and native communication competence were predictors of adolescents’ psychological adjustment. The study cautions that comprehensive studies are needed for more conclusive findings.