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In recent years, along with the rapid development of globalization, international sojourn has become a universal phenomenon. International sojourners will experience culture shock when they move to a new place with different culture. The more shock they encountered the more anxious they will feel. Cultural shock can be measured by acculturation. This study aimed to explore the relationship between acculturation and Subject Well-Being. A review of relevant literature explores that acculturation is Bidimensional. That means acculturation is included both host cultural and home cultural orientation. One hundred and twenty six sojourners in Birmingham who were from the People's Republic of China completed questionnaires, which assessed three dimensions including host-national identification (HNI) co-national identification (CNI) and Subjective Well-being (SWB). There were no many barriers about language and customs in sojourners' lives. Though they were keen to contact with natives theses aims are not fulfilled at all. In fact, they live together with Chinese and always accompanied by Chinese. HNI and CNI were measured separately and found that the score of acculturation to host culture are lower than the score of belonging to home culture. What is more, there was no significant correlation between HNI and CNI. Then host and co-national identity scores were subjected to a median split, and 2×2 analyses of variance were performed. In this case, four modes of acculturation strategies including integration, separation, assimilation and marginalization were divided. Subjects with strong host national identification experienced less sociocultural adjustment difficulties. In another words, respondents who endorsed separatist and marginalizatist experienced the greater amount of social difficulty. General measures of Subject Well-being were correlated with host acculturation and urban livability of Birmingham. Feeling more Englishman, the more like with Birmingham and the higher levels of satisfaction. These results of positively correlated between acculturation and SWB extended and offered empirical evidence for Ward's theory. Further, Step-wise regression analysis suggested that only the contact with host nationals was important predictor of positive affect with life satisfaction. ? The Author(s) 2020.
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