This study aims to clarify the cultural identity of interculturally-married women who have moved to a new culture in the early years of adulthood from a life-span developmental perspective. The participants are: (a) 28 Japanese middle-aged women married to Indonesian men and living in Indonesia, (b) 109 Japanese women in middle and late adulthood married to American men and living in the US, and (c) 20 Asian and Western middle-aged women married to Japanese men and living in Japan. Semi-constructed interviews and questionnaire survey are conducted. The analysis is mainly qualitative in nature. The results suggest the following: 1) identity crisis brought by a cultural contact reaches reintegration through psychological moratorium and the identity formed while living in the original country is spirally reconstructed at each cultural contact [1][2][3]; 2) they maintain their original cultural identities as their psychological foundation throughout their lifetimes; and 3) it is suggested that "Ibasho" (one's place including one's "actual living place" and one's "psychological place" plays an important role for their cultural identity formation.
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