Wu, YiqunXu, JingyiShen, YishanWang, YijieZheng, Yao2023-09-282023-09-282023-02Wu, Y., Xu, J., Shen, Y., Wang, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2023). Daily agreeableness and acculturation processes in ethnic/ racial minority freshmen: The role of inter-ethnic contact and perceived discrimination. Journal of Personality, pp. 1-16.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/17133Objectives: Having higher levels of mainstream cultural orientation (MCO), an important component of acculturation attitudes and behaviors, is beneficial for ethnic/racial minority students during the transitions into university. Scant research has investigated MCO at a micro daily timescale. This study examined how personality (agreeableness) functions in conjunction with interpersonal processes (inter-ethnic contact and perceived discrimination) to influence MCO as daily within-person processes. Methods: Multi-level structural equation modeling were used to analyze month-long daily diary data from 209 ethnic/racial minority freshmen (69% female). Results: There was a positive indirect association between agreeableness and MCO through inter-ethnic contact at both within-and between-person levels. At the within-person level, on days with lower (vs. higher) levels of ethnic/racial discrimination, higher levels of agreeableness were associated with higher levels of MCO. Conclusions: These findings highlight the contributions of intensive longitudinal data in elucidating ethnic/racial minority students' personality and acculturation processes in daily life involving protective and risk factors on micro timescales.Text16 pages1 file (.pdf)enacculturationagreeablenessdaily diary datainter-ethnic contactmainstream cultural orientationperceived ethnic/racial discriminationArticleThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.