CHAPTER 5 HCOM 320 What Is Culture Shock? Stressful transitional period moving from a familiar to unfamiliar environment.

CULTURAL SHOCK (Oberg, 1960)  Sense of identity loss & deprivation  Identity strain due to psychological adaptation  Identity rejection/new culture  Identity confusion/one’s role  Identity powerlessness/not coping with new environment

POLL BAFA BAFA Identify Feelings  Awkward  Disoriented  Excited  Embarrassed  Alive  Insecure  Challenged  Bizarre  Energized  Exhausted  Surprised  Anxious  Intense  Rewarded

ABCs of Cultural Shock  Affectively – anxiety, bewilderment, confusion, disorientation, etc.  Behaviorally – norms and rules confusion  Cognitively – lack competence to interpret or explain bizarre behaviors

PROS & CONS Negative implications Positive effects

Managing culture shock  Motivational orientation  Personal expectations  Cultural distance  Sociocultural adjustment  Psychological adjustment  Personality attributes

U-curve Adjustment Model  Initial adjustment –Optimistic or elation phrase  Crisis –Overwhelmed by own incompetence  Regained adjustment –Settling-in phrase; effective coping

W-shaped Adjustment Model  Honeymoon stage  Hostility stage  Humorous stage  In-sync adjustment stage  Ambivalence stage  Reentry culture shock stage  Re-socialization stage

Reentry culture shock  Reentry culture shock –Identity change; idealized images; reintegrating; family & friends; demand for role conformity  Resocialization –Do not recognize new skills –Alienated returnees –Proactive returnees