Basáñez Tatiana, Dennis Jessica M, Crano William, Stacy Alan, Unger Jennifer B
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA.
California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
J Fam Issues. 2014 Nov;35(13):1727-1753. doi: 10.1177/0192513X13477379. Epub 2013 Mar 5.
This study examined the factor structure and validity of the Acculturation Gap Conflicts Inventory (AGCI), a new instrument developed to measure the types of recurring conflicts that young people experience as part of the parent-child acculturation gap. Participants included 283 Hispanic young adults who completed the AGCI and existing measures of acculturation, family dynamics, psychosocial, and academic adjustment. Principal axis factor analysis revealed three factors with good internal consistency: Autonomy Conflicts, Conflicts over Preferred-Culture, and Dating/Being Out Late Conflicts. These factors correlated in the expected direction with acculturative stress and family dynamics variables. Autonomy Conflicts explained more than 25% of the variance in the acculturation gap conflicts items investigated, and this factor demonstrated incremental validity in predicting psychosocial and academic adjustment beyond the variance accounted for by other acculturative stress variables. The AGCI can be valuable to researchers from a variety of disciplines interested in measuring acculturation-related intergenerational conflicts among Hispanic youth that may be predictive of adjustment.
本研究考察了文化适应差距冲突量表（AGCI）的因子结构和效度，该量表是一种新开发的工具，用于测量年轻人作为亲子文化适应差距一部分所经历的反复出现的冲突类型。参与者包括283名西班牙裔青年，他们完成了AGCI以及现有的文化适应、家庭动态、心理社会和学业适应测量。主轴因子分析揭示了三个具有良好内部一致性的因子：自主冲突、对偏好文化的冲突以及约会/晚归冲突。这些因子与文化适应压力和家庭动态变量在预期方向上相关。自主冲突解释了所调查的文化适应差距冲突项目中超过25%的方差，并且该因子在预测心理社会和学业适应方面表现出增量效度，超出了其他文化适应压力变量所解释的方差。AGCI对于来自各种学科、对测量西班牙裔青年中可能预测适应情况的与文化适应相关的代际冲突感兴趣的研究人员可能是有价值的。
