Assessment of Acculturation: Issues and Overview of Measures

Celenk, Ozgur; Vijver, Fons J. R. van de

doi:10.9707/2307-0919.1105

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“…With the deletion of the item related to the language of radio programs listened to, ASASFA for U.S.‐born FAs now comprises 11 items; this short scale falls within the mean of 11 items of most acculturation measures (Celenk & Van de Vijer, ). The total scale reliability (.82) and dimensional reliabilities of language use and preference (.86) and ethnic social relations (.81) all meet the minimum standard of .80 (Nunnally & Bernstein, ).…”

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“…The factor structure of ASASFA in adult U.S.‐born FAs dovetails with the two most common dimensions measured by major ethnic‐specific acculturation measures—language use and preference, and preference in social ethnic relations (Celenk & Van de Vijer, ; Matsudaira, ; Zane & Mak, ). Being born of parents speaking a language at home that differs from the mainstream American language used outside of the home, U.S.‐born FAs reveal a shift to English language use and preference as a key aspect of their acculturation to American society.…”

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The factor structure of a short acculturation scale for Filipino Americans in an adult U.S.‐born sample

Cruz

Vindua

2018

Journal Community Psychology

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The influx of non‐European immigrants since 1965 ushered the development and use of acculturation measures in immigrant health studies. A Short Acculturation Scale for Filipino Americans (ASASFA) represents a validated, unidirectional ethnic‐specific measure used with first‐generation FAs. ASASFA's psychometric properties with adult U.S.‐born children—the second generation—remain unexplored. This study determined (a) the factor structure of ASASFA with adult U.S.‐born FAs and (b) the predictors of their acculturation scores. A secondary analysis was conducted on ASASFA data from a mental health survey of 116 U.S.‐born FAs. Exploratory factor and parallel analyses showed a two‐factor solution: language use and preference (Factor 1) and ethnic social relations (Factor 2). Ordinary least squares regression indicated gender and ethnic self‐identification predict Factor 1 scores; self‐identification solely predicts Factor 2 scores. Results demonstrate ASASFA's validity and parsimony, supporting its use in FA health studies when lengthy bidirectional acculturation measures become impractical.

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The factor structure of a short acculturation scale for Filipino Americans in an adult U.S.‐born sample

Cruz

Vindua

2018

Journal Community Psychology

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“…The level of acculturation orientation can vary across different domains; immigrants may adopt the mainstream norms in public contexts, but still maintain heritage culture norms in private life contexts (Celenk & van de Vijver, 2011). Similar to the idea of differing norms in certain contexts, it is possible that the acculturation orientation of general cultural norms (e.g., gender norms, individualism and collectivism related norms) represented in the nonemotional storybook features of Hispanic storybooks may act as a differing context from the orientation of emotion norms in these storybooks.…”

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Emotion Norms in Media: Acculturation in Hispanic Children’s Storybooks Compared to Heritage and Mainstream Cultures

2018

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Cultural artifacts such as children's storybooks may serve to facilitate learning of emotion display norms. We compared emotion displays in European American and Mexican books to infer cultural differences between the mainstream and a heritage culture to ultimately explore acculturation orientation in Hispanic storybooks. Totally, 1,059 images were coded from 10 popular storybooks from each cultural group. We focused on emotion type (positive, negative socially engaging, and disengaging) and intensity of expression. Context variables such as social partners and gender were also compared. Positive emotions were dominant in all groups, occurring most in Hispanic storybooks; Mexican and Hispanic storybooks displayed negative socially disengaging emotions less than negative socially engaging emotions. Hispanic storybooks displayed lowest intensity of expression, especially for female characters. Results indicated that Hispanic storybooks showed similarities to the mainstream culture in general features and similarities to the heritage culture in emotion-type display. However, some emotion norms deviated from both groups, indicating minority effects of Hispanic culture.

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“…Yet, acculturation orientations are conceptualised as attitudes towards certain behaviour, whereas acculturation outcomes refer to the actual performance of behaviour. For example, the motivation to learn the mainstream language would be reflecting an orientation towards the mainstream culture whereas actual language skills would be considered an acculturation outcome (Arends-Tóth & Van de Vijver, 2006;Celenk & Van de Vijver, 2011).…”

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Contextual Conditions for Acculturation and Adjustment of Adolescent Immigrants – Integrating Theory and Findings

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Vijver²,

Noack³

2017

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

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Assessment of Acculturation: Issues and Overview of Measures

Cited by 103 publications

References 64 publications

The factor structure of a short acculturation scale for Filipino Americans in an adult U.S.‐born sample

The factor structure of a short acculturation scale for Filipino Americans in an adult U.S.‐born sample

Emotion Norms in Media: Acculturation in Hispanic Children’s Storybooks Compared to Heritage and Mainstream Cultures

Contextual Conditions for Acculturation and Adjustment of Adolescent Immigrants – Integrating Theory and Findings

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