Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2017 Jan;23(1):109-124. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000110. Epub 2016 Jun 30.
Cultural variability (CV) is introduced as an overlooked dimension of cultural identity development pertaining to emphasizing and de-emphasizing the influence of a single cultural identity (i.e., cultural influence [CI]) on daily interactions and behaviors. The Cultural IDentity Influence Measure (CIDIM) is introduced as a novel measure of CI and CV, and hypothesis-driven validation is conducted in two samples along with exploration of associations between CV and well-being.
A multicultural sample of 242 emerging adults participated in a daily diary study (Mage = 19.95 years, SDage = 1.40) by completing up to eight daily online surveys containing the CIDIM, criterion measures (ethnic identity, other group orientation, ethnic identity salience and daily variability in salience, social desirability), and measures of personal and interpersonal well-being. A second validation sample (n = 245) completed a 1-time survey with the CIDIM and a subset of criterion measures.
Results using both samples show evidence of CI and CV and demonstrate the validity, reliability, and domain-sensitivity of the CIDIM. Further, CV made unique and positive contributions to predicting interaction quality after accounting for ethnic salience and variability in ethnic salience. An analytic approach utilizing standard deviations produced near-identical results to multilevel modeling and is recommended for parsimony.
Ethnic minority and majority individuals make daily adjustments to play up and play down the influence of cultural identity on their social interactions and behaviors, and these adjustments predict interpersonal well-being. Cultural influence and cultural variability contribute to our emerging understanding of cultural identity as dynamic and agentic. (PsycINFO Database Record
文化变异性（CV）被引入到文化认同发展中，作为一个被忽视的维度，强调和淡化单一文化认同（即文化影响[CI]）对日常互动和行为的影响。文化认同影响度量（CIDIM）被引入作为一种新的 CI 和 CV 度量方法，并在两个样本中进行了假设驱动的验证，同时探索了 CV 与幸福感之间的关联。
一个由 242 名新兴成年人组成的多元文化样本通过完成多达八项在线每日调查，参与了一项每日日记研究（Mage=19.95 岁，SDage=1.40），这些调查包含 CIDIM、标准测量（民族认同、其他群体取向、民族认同凸显和凸显的日常变化、社会期望）以及个人和人际幸福感的测量。第二个验证样本（n=245）完成了一次 CIDIM 和部分标准测量的调查。
两个样本的结果都表明存在 CI 和 CV，并证明了 CIDIM 的有效性、可靠性和领域敏感性。此外，在考虑到民族凸显和民族凸显的日常变化后，CV 对预测互动质量做出了独特的积极贡献。一种利用标准差的分析方法与多层次建模产生了几乎相同的结果，建议采用简约法。
少数族裔和多数族裔个体每天都会对文化认同对其社会互动和行为的影响进行调整，以强调或淡化其影响，这些调整预测了人际幸福感。文化影响和文化变异性有助于我们对动态和自主的文化认同的理解。
