02029nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002900118653002100147653002500168653002200193653002100215100003000236700003200266700003000298245011400328300001000442490000700452520131200459022001401771020001401785       2011                            d  c01/2011bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aacculturative strategies10aBurnout syndrome10aemotional exhaustion10aImmigrant workers10aworker wellbeing1 aPedro J. Ramos-Villagrasa1 aAntonio L. Garcia-lzquierdo1 aMariano Garcia-lzquíerdo00aAcculturative strategies and emotional exhaustion differences between immigrant and national workers in Spain  a63-740 v173 aImmigration has become one of the most important challenges in Europe. Spain has experienced one of the major growths in the number of immigrants in the last years. Work is a central issue in the immigration phenomenon, and workers  wellbeing and organizational practices are particularly sensitive to culture. This paper analyses the relationship between acculturative strategies and a specific work-related response: emotional exhaustion, the main dimension of burnout syndrome. Three thousand and eighty six workers (47.9% immigrants, 52.8% nationals) took part in the study. Acculturative strategies, emotional exhaustion, and demographic variables were assessed with a self-administrated questionnaire. Descriptive, reliability and analysis of variance analyses were performed. Results show that immigrants have a tendency to choose integration as their acculturative strategy at work, while host nationals mainly choose separation and integration. Adding to this, national workers with more adaptive strategies report higher levels of emotional exhaustion. We conclude that the effort to understand the other group may increase the risk of developing emotional exhaustion. Finally, we present the limitations of the study and further research lines about the relationship between work and immigration.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437