Abstract
The purpose of the study was to explore the mediating role of the bicultural experience in the relationship between self-esteem and life satisfaction of multicultural adolescents. The study was conducted using data from the fourth wave of Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study and the participants were 1,380 middle school students from multicultural families. The data was analyzed using the Jamovi 1.25 program to identify correlations, direct effect of self-esteem and life satisfaction as well as parallel multiple mediation. The findings were as follows. First, both self-esteem and life satisfaction of the adolescents were positively correlated to national identity, bicultural acceptance attitude, and multicultural acceptability, but cultural adaptation stress had a negative correlation. Second, self-esteem of multicultural adolescents had a direct effect on their life satisfaction. Third, bicultural experience of the adolescents was partially mediated by the relationship between self-esteem and life satisfaction. Fourth, among bicultural experience variables, multicultural acceptability was the most effective in the relationship. The study highlighted the importance of bicultural experience among multicultural adolescents and revisited the significance of self-esteem for life satisfaction of the adolescents.
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