The Impact of Family Relocation on Singaporean Third Culture Kids

Individuals who have experienced culturally diverse settings are known to be psychologically more resilient, and interpersonally and academically more proficient. Despite being multiculturally exposed as a result of their families’ geographical mobility, Third Culture Kids (TCKs) experience psychological and sociocultural adaption difficulties when they return to their passport countries (Pollock, Van Reken & Pollock, 2017). In the context of Singaporean TCKs, this study investigated the effect of family relocation on their adaptive functioning, using the Differentiation of Self Inventory-Revised (DSI-R; Skowron & Schmit, 2003) and the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire-Short Form (MPQ-SF; Van der Zee, van Oudenhoven, Ponterotto, & Fietzer, 2013). Logistic regression analyses shed light on age at repatriation as a significant predictor of their adaptive functioning